So for today's lesson on the color wheel, I am going to give you a link where you can print out your own color wheel to fill in. If you want to make one that is doll sized, print it out wallet sized and that would be perfect for dolls like me, but for you, print it out people size or a full sheet. Card stock would be great if you have it. You will need crayons, markers, or whatever art supplies your parents will let you use, so, ask.
http://www.color-wheel-artist.com/printable-color-wheels.html
This is the one you need to print out.
Ok so First lets go over Primary colors
The three primary colors are Red, Yellow and Blue. If I only had Red, Yellow and Blue paint along with Black and White, I could mix every other color.
The first three colors I would mix from my primary colors would be the secondary colors. Secondary colors are made by mixing equal amounts of two of the primary colors, so if I mix red and yellow I get orange, if I mix red and blue I get purple (or violet) and if I mix blue and yellow I get green.
Did you notice that the primary colors make a triangle? The secondary colors also make a triangle. Now if we lay them over each other we notice that we have something like this but tilted differently on our handy print out. It is a wheel so it turns. Anyhow, we can see that the opposite of Red is green, the opposite of Blue is Orange and the opposite of Yellow is Purple. Now think of all the places you see those color combinations. Opposite colors make each other stand out more. Think of the red and green christmas decorations, or the yellow and purple used often at Easter... Blue and Orange on sports team uniforms or on signs.
Mom used opposite colors when she designed her shop logo, since her shop name is Lemonhead 103 she used yellow and purple.
Tertiary colors fall in between each of the colors above and they will fill out the color wheel that we printed out. Your filled in wheel should look like this :
Half of our color wheel is considered warm colors and half is considered cool. Can you tell what colors are warm and what colors are cool?
Warm colors should make you think of a campfire, and cool of a nice cool pond.
So, warm colors are Red, Orange and Yellow. Cool colors are Green Blue and Purple.
If you would like to print this out as well go to http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/2012/08/color-wheel-for-elementary-students.html. and You might need to make this a 4x6 for a doll poster. I believe a wallet would be too small.
