Topic: Color
Subject Area: Art
Days: 12
Grade: 3rd
Know:
Complementary colors are colors
that are across from each other
on the color wheel.
Understand:
Complementary, warm, and cool
colors allow artists to create
different effects within their
artwork.
Do:
Create artworks demonstrating
complementary colors.
Warm colors are variations of
reds, oranges, and yellows.
Cool colors are variations of
blues, greens, and purples.
Standards: 9.1.3A, 9.1.3B, 9.1.3C, 9.1.3H
Key Learning: Complementary, warm, and cool colors allow artists to create different effects within
their artwork.
Unit Essential Question(s): How can an artist create different
effects within their artwork using complementary, warm, and cool
colors?
Concept: Complementary Colors
Concept: Warm Colors
Concept: Cool Colors
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are complementary colors?
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are warm colors?
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are cool colors?
Why are complementary colors
important to artists?
What kind of effects can an artist
achieve by using warm colors?
Vocabulary:
Color Wheel-The color spectrum
bent into a circle. The organized
way of looking at the colors.
Complementary Colors- colors
that are opposite from each other on
the color wheel.
Vocabulary
Color Wheel- The color spectrum
bent into a circle. The organized
way of looking at the colors.
Warm Colors- Variations of reds,
oranges, and yellows.
What kinds of effects can an
artist achieve by using cool
colors?
Vocabulary
Color Wheel- The color spectrum
bent into a circle. The organized
way of looking at the colors.
Cool Colors- variations of blues,
greens, and violets/purples.