Learn about colors from a color wheel.

This color wheel shows pure colors.

Pure colors are colors like those you can see in a rainbow.

YOU CAN ALSO SEE PURE COLORS when light shines through a prism.

Artists call red, yellow and orange warm colors.

These colors remind people of warm things and warm feelings.

Blue, green and violet are called cool colors.

THESE colors remind people of cold things and sad feelings.

Can you explain why?

Artists call brown, black, gray and white neutral colors. Artists use these colors in many ways.

Sometimes artists mix neutral colors with warm colors or with cool colors.

Look for neutral colors in the painting by A. Y.  Jackson.

Red Maple by A. Y. Jackson. Oil on canvas

Do most of the colors look warm or cool?

Sunset. Claire L. 4th Grade. Oil Pastels. 2014-2015.

Color: Color Families

1. open the app TAYASUI SKETCHES SCHOOL on your iPAD.

set the background to a NEUTRAL color. (brown, BLACK, gray OR WHITE).

2. USE A STYLUS TO sketch a picture with many neutral colors.

3. try all the tools you can on the app.

4. Mix or blend either warm OR cool colors by using the color wheel tool. Blend your colors to make variations that are lighter add white), darker (add black), muddier (add brown) or foggier (add gray).

5. save your image and upload it to artsonia.

Bridge. Ben M. 4th Grade. 2014-2015. Oil Pastels.