Feel it

This project is created using canvas, acrylic paints, and modelling paste. Students are given the creative freedom to choose their focus and create using acrylic techniques.

Before creating the final project, students learn a series of colour studies and notes before working on their planning. Ms. Pham must approve all planning before moving on to the final painting.

COLOUR THEORY

Colour Theory

Colour theory helps us to decide what colours you want to choose fo your art projects. These are colour relationships, and each will pair togeher for different reasons.

Primary Colours

Yellow, blue and red are considered your PRIMARY colours. This is because you cannot make them by mixing other colours together, but they can create other colours when combined.

Secondary Colours

Green, orange, and violet (or purple) are what make up SECONDARY colours. This is because they are created using two primary colours.

red + yellow = orange
yellow + blue = green
blue + red = violet

Tertiary Colours

By combining the neighbour of any of the primary or secondary colours, they can create more colours called TERTIARY colours.

yellow + orange = yellow-orange
orange + red = red-orange
red + violet = red-violet
violet + blue = blue-violet
blue + green = blue-green
green + yellow = yellow-green

Colour Relationships

When we use the wheel in our art, we might consider different choices of how colours might be used together. We call these colour relationships, and it helps us to see what colours might work well for the message we are trying to create. Complimentary and analogous colour relationships are common and the main ones we will learn in class, but there are many other ways you can create colour relationships in your work!

The most used colour scheme is COMPLIMENTARY colours. When used together, these colours are bold and striking that give the views our attention, providing a visual richness that pleases the eye. When the colours are so far apart, it adds an element of tension that draws you in.

These COMPLIMENTARY colours can be:

Red & Green
Blue & Orange
Yellow & Violet (purple)
And all the other colours across from one another!

ANALOGOUS colours are adjacent (next to) to one another on the colour wheel. This adjacency means that the hues are very close to one another, which limits the colour contrast. Analogous schemes are more harmonious while being less intense and more pleasing than Complimentary schemes. These colours are typically used in threes (3) and usually contain a primary, secondary, and tertiary colour.

These ANALOGOUS colours can be:

Red-violet, red, and orange
Blue, blue-green, and green
Yellow, yellow-orange, and orange
Purple, blue-purple, blue

More Colour

There is so much more colour vocabulary that we can learn! You may be thinking... what about black and white? Well, these colours can be added as well but they have different vocabulary. Let's explore this!

A HUE is another name for colour, like red or blue. This is talking about the pure colour, but it is just the basic colour you see.

A SHADE is when you make the colour darker. Typically, you could add black to create a new shade. For example, if I take blue and add black, I will create a darker shade of blue.

A TINT is the opposite of a shade, this is where you would make a colour lighter by adding white. If I take red and add white, this will create a new tint, pink!

A TONE is a bit different which involves adding grey to a colour. By adding grey you create a more muted colour, it is more dull. This is what we call tone.

Here you can see when we create a tint, shade, and tone to my hue: red. This can create a range of new colours I could use!

References & Image Resources

Keewa. Hobby 102: Colour Theory. Goonhammer Hobby Hobby 101. May 15, 2024. https://www.goonhammer.com/hobby-102-colour-theory/. Date accessed August 8 2024.

Shirley Wiliams. The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Hue, Tint, Tone and Shade. Color Wheel Artist. No Date. https://color-wheel-artist.com/hue/. Date accessed August 8 2024.

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