Complementary colors art lesson

3 Trees. Good lesson on contrasting colors/ warm vs. cool color use.

My 2 year sabbatical is coming to end. For the upcoming year I'll be offering limited private sessions only. The fall session is full and I...

A whale I drew for /r/SketchDaily. The theme was "Split complementary colors" and to be honest, I quite lve it, even if it's simple, so I'm posting it here Split complementary colors whale

Students at all levels are studying various aspects of the color wheel. Grade 2 is focused on complementary colors and is making color...

In art yesterday, I learned about complimentary colors: green compliments red, orange compliments blue, and purple compliments yellow. Pears

complimentary colors Elementary art lesson

My 6th grade students have been learning about several different color schemes this year. Most recently, we studied analogous colors, colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Analogous colors are similar to each other; not opposites like complementary colors. Using analogous colors creates a harmonious color scheme. My students each picked two colors of tempera paint, and I showed them how to slowly blend one into the other to create a gradation. Then, we looked at silhouettes…

With the students of grade 6 (11 years old) we are continuing our adventure to discover the colors. Today we worked with the complementary colors on black and white photocopies depicting flowers. T…

In order to experience the variety of complementary colors we thought to the shape of a lemon cut in half: for each segment, a different shade of color. Even the background checkered became a prete…