Ideas to work on the warm and cool colours
I was thinking about new ideas to propose to the students to work on the warm and cool colors. We use acrylic paints especially to … Read more
The square color wheel!
Here a special color “wheel”, it is drawn freehand and colored with tempera colours on a square sheet. The students of year 6 colored their … Read more
Color Wheel – Printable worksheet (in Italian language!)
Dopo aver cercato nel web un Cerchio Cromatico in italiano da stampare e far colorare ai ragazzi, ho deciso di disegnarmelo perchè proprio non sono … Read more
Hunting to the primary colours in your life
Some of my photographs, inspired by primary colours. Could be a funny and useful homework for students, like a treasure hunt! CYAN GIALLO MAGENTA
Working with complementary colors
A simple exercise inspired by the shapes of Matisse to learn about complementary colors. Prepare a 5x5cm grid and then you draw freeform shapes, coloring with alternating complementary colors.
Written with the Rainbow
On watercolor paper you can write with the water and drop the colours with the eyedropper. I used colored inks, but you can also use liquid watercolors.
Sentences in complementary colors
We have created a painting inspired by the works of Paul Klee and Alighiero Boetti using letters of the alphabet as a pretext to create … Read more
Value landscapes
To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more … Read more
Fishes in warm and cool colors …
With the 6th grade students, we made an acrylic painting to experience the variety of warm and cool colors. Working on color theory we discovered how … Read more