Y1-2 Art – Term 2 Week 8

We learned about a really useful tool called a color wheel. The color wheel helps us understand the relationships between different colors. The wheel is made up of three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. These colors cannot be created by mixing other colors together.

When two primary colors are mixed together, they create a secondary color. For example, when you mix blue and yellow together, you get green. Mixing red and yellow together creates orange, and mixing blue and red together creates purple.
We used this theory to create our own color charts in class. Each of us painted a chart that showed how the primary colors could be mixed together to create the secondary colors. It was a really fun project!


After we made our color charts, we had some discovery time where we got to experiment with mixing colors on tissue paper. It was amazing to see how the colors blended together and created new shades.

Even the mixed-up colors that we didn’t intend to create turned out beautifully!

Learning about the color wheel helped us understand how colors work together and how we can create new shades and tones by mixing colors. And painting on tissue paper was a unique and exciting way to experiment with color mixing.

In the next class, we plan to create patterns using different materials on top of the beautiful and colorful tissue papers we made. I am looking forward to another fun art class next week. See you then!