This ‘Colour Theory Chinese Dragon’ lesson can be used as a cover/sub lesson or as an introduction to harmonious/analogous and contrasting colours. It is ideal if you are exploring China or Chinese New Year with your students. Students will: Experiment with selecting three harmonious/analogous and one contrasting colour to create a colour scheme. Paint their […]
This task teaches your students how to gradate coloured pencils and watercolour using warm and cool colours. Your students will: Practice gradating coloured pencils and watercolour. Recap on colour theory and learn about warm and cool colours. Include subject-specific vocabulary in their learning. This download includes: A detailed 2-page lesson plan full of good advice […]
This ‘Colour Theory Watercolour Lesson’ can be used as a cover/sub lesson or as an introduction to harmonious/analogous and contrasting colours. Students will: Experiment with selecting three harmonious/analogous and one contrasting colour to create a colour scheme. Paint their selected colours using watercolour onto the patterned worksheet above. This download includes: A worksheet for painting […]
This appealing, one-page Feather Colour Wheel has been designed to get your students to learn or consolidate their learning of primary, secondary and tertiary colours. There is a version with the spelling ‘colour’ and ‘color’. There is no lesson plan with this download as it could be used in many different ways. (Paint, coloured pencils, […]
This is a choice board for colour theory. This download includes: A one-page choice board with 12 ideas for projects which each link to colour theory. This includes: primary and secondary colours, harmonious/analogous colours, complementary colours, monochromatic colours, warm and cool colours. An additional document that suggests artists that would be good to research for […]
This five-page ‘Colour Theory Distance Learning’ project teaches students about colour theory. Three tasks introduce them to primary, secondary, tertiary, harmonious or analogous colours and complementary colours. There are versions for the UK and US with the different spellings of colour/color and use of harmonious/analogous. The tasks include: Making a colourful page with the definitions […]
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