A few classes ago, when the children were using paint, you will recall that they experimented with colour mixing themselves. As a result, all colours were mixed together and the children discovered that they had created a sludgy brown.
Following on from this experience, I thought it would be a good idea to teach the children how to mix primary colours properly.
Mixing colours is one of the most important lessons we can learn about art. Once you know what colours mix to make others, you can shade, lighten and add dimension to your artwork. It's a lesson that I hope will stay with these children for life.
The children were taught that the primary colours are....Yellow, Blue and Red. They can be mixed together to make other colours.
Here are some of their colour mixing sheets:
They also learned that mixing white with other colours makes them lighter. It was fun to hear the children exclaim when they discovered what new colours they had created.
For the next part of the class, I did cheat a little and gave the children some extra pretty colours to work with....just to add a little more colour to their artwork.
They saw how the colours mixed in their fold-in-half butterflies.....
And experimented with finger painting on their colourful Alien creatures planets.....
All of these works of art have been safely added to their Art Portfolios which they will bring home with them at the end of term as a nice reminder of what they learned in art class!
Next week.....the children will make felt! Be prepared for a soapy, fun blog!
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