1.

Come in & sit down WITHOUT TALKING

2. Put your bags UNDER THE TABLES

3. Take out your SKETCHBOOKS & a PENCIL

4. Do NOT touch ANYTHING until given

instructions
STARTER Questions
ACTIVITY
– What are the
primary colours?

– What are the

secondary
colours?
LESSON
OBJECTIVES

• Learn how to mix colours

• Make a colour wheel
Colour Wheel and Acrylic
Painting
 Warm & Cool Colours
• Warm colours?
Include red, yellow, and orange; evoke
warmth because they remind us of
things like the sun or fire.
• Cool colours
Include blue, green, and purple (violet);
evoke a cool feeling because they
remind us of things water or grass.
 Things to remember
Always wear an apron as acrylic paint stains your
clothes.

Use HALF a cup of water between two.

Share a palette between two. Please make sure you mix

your colours on a palette!

Share a tray of acrylic paints per table.

Keep the paint trays and pots clean!

Make sure the correct lids go on the pots.

 Setting up!
• Blazers off
• Aprons on (check back is clean)
• Palettes out
• Select appropriate brush
• Water pots (HALF full)
• Carefully take off lids off paints
Paint a swatch of each colour
and label
warm red = cadmium
cool red = magenta

warm blue = cobalt

cool blue = cerulean

warm yellow = cadmium yellow

cool yellow = lemon yellow.
Mix to get the perfect secondary
colours
Magenta and cobalt = Perfect Purple

Cerulean blue and lemon yellow =

Glowing Green

Cadmium red and cadmium yellow =

Outstanding Orange
Mix the cool and warm of each colour
to get the ‘middle’ primary and paint
the circles

cadmium red + magenta

cobalt blue + cool blue

cadmium yellow + lemon yellow

Mix the ‘middle’ primaries together
and paint the squares

middle red + middle blue

middle yellow + middle red

middle blue + middle yellow

Paint the boxes
with three pairs of
complementary
colours.

Use a secondary
and primary for
each
 Perfect Purple= Magenta and cobalt,
Glowing Green = Cerulean blue and lemon yellow,
yellow Outstanding
Orange = Cadmium red and cadmium yellow

warm red = cadmium, cool red = magenta,

warm blue = cobalt, cool blue = cerulean,
warm yellow = cadmium yellow, cool yellow = lemon yellow.

Always wear an apron as it stains your clothes.

Put newspaper under your work to keep the table clean.

Use HALF a cup of water between two.

Share a palette between two. Make sure you mix your colours on a palette, not in the
pots!

Share a tray of acrylic paints per table and keep the paints clean! Carefully scoop out
any mixed colours on to your palette. Make sure the correct lids go on the pots.
A tint is where an artist adds a colour to white to create a
lighter version of the colour. An example of a tint is pink. Pink
is a tint created by adding white to red.

A shade is where an artist adds black to a colour to darken it

down.

A tone is where an artist adds grey to a colour.

 Acrylic painting - colour wheels
warm red = cadmium, cool red = magenta, warm blue = cobalt, cool blue
= cerulean, warm yellow = cadmium yellow, cool yellow = lemon yellow.

Perfect Purple= Magenta and cobalt, Glowing Green = Cerulean blue and lemon yellow,
yellow
Outstanding Orange = Cadmium red and cadmium yellow

1. Paint the shapes on the first worksheet to practice mixing

paint and painting within the lines.
2. Paint the second pie style colour wheel worksheet – this is to
be peer assessed.
Colour Wheel and Acrylic Painting
Write your name on your work.
10 minutes before the end of the lesson, after instructed, work in tables
to help each other:

1. 4 boys to help wash brushes and palettes at the sink and

put them away.
2. Put the dirty palettes and brushes in the sink.
3. Make sure correct paints are in trays with correct lids on
and then put them back.
4. Empty the water pots carefully and put them back.
5. Throw away dirty newspaper or fold up clean paper and
put it in the labelled box to re-use.
6. Carefully collect named work and put it on the drying
rack.
7. Wipe the tables clean – sponges/paper towels are at the
sink.

Once you have done your job, help everyone else.

Wait to wash your hands after the lesson if the sink area is busy
LESSON SUMMARY

What is TINT?
What is SHADE?