Learning about COLOR through Landscape Paintings

Children in 4th grade are now moving on to learning about color. We began talking about color by introducing the 3 primary colors....."The King Color" I call them. I demonstrated through the creation of a color wheel how 3 colors came easily become 6 colors and then how in adding white OR black we can make 16 colors thought creating tints and shades. As a final activity we used a limited palette of colors to make a whole slew of new colors. These exercises in color creation will go on to create a much stronger landscape paintings once we begin.

This is an example of the dot exercise we did in class. Children were offered only 2 primaries, white and black and were asked to create as many different new colors as they could.

I have a large collection of visual resources which help when discussing such concepts as HORIZON and what is a LANDSCAPE.

This is the color wheel I created as a demonstration. beside each primary and secondary color I also created a shade and a tint of each color.......we made 16 colors from just 5!!!

You create a shade of a color when you add black to any color.....you create a tint of a color when you add white to that color.

The star of the show...."the king colors!!!"