Grade 8
Art
Learn How to Use the Colour Wheel
2. What Are Values?
3.
Learn How to Use Paint.Net and/or Paint.Net
Elements
4.
Talk about Pop Art and Andy Warhol
5.
Create our own Pop Art Piece
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The color wheel is a visual aid
which helps us understand the
principles of color.
It is also an excellent tool to
help create harmonious color
schemes for painting, interior
decorating and commercial
design. It creates an orderly
progression of color that helps
us understand color balance
and harmony.
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Our color wheel starts with
the 3 primary colors,
placed in an equilateral
triangle.
The primary colours are
yellow, red and blue
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When any one primary color is mixed with
another a secondary color effect is produced. 3
secondary colors are produced from the mixing
of one primary color with another.
The secondary colors are:
orange (mix red + yellow)
green (mix yellow + blue)
violet (mix blue + red)
Tertiary Colors: These colors are created
when mixing one secondary and one primary
color. i.e. blue + violet = blue-violet.
 What are some of our tertiary colours?
 The tertiary colors are:
yellow-orange, red-orange,
red-violet, blue-violet,
blue-green and yellow-green.
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Complimentary Colours are at opposite sides of the
colour wheel.
When placed next to each other, complementary colors
tend to look balanced and become brighter.
They are also used together in Colour Therapy to give
balance. We need the balance of the electric/cool
colours and the magnetic/warm colours for our wellbeing and smooth functioning of our bodies.
When two complements are mixed they produce a
brown, or, in the case of black and white, a gray
Lay the colour wheel down in
the middle of the table.
Answer the questions on
your handout as best you
can.