COLOURS…

Learning about them…

by Maria Codina - ART CLASS

The Colour Wheel was developed by Isaac
Newton.
In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac
Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight
and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was
composed of seven visible colours: red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo, and violet. And he thought that the
colours of the rainbow were analogous to the notes of
the musical scale.
Newton laid the path for others to experiment with
color in a scientific manner.

The Colour Wheel is made up of 3 different types of colours: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.

Red, yellow and blue are called primary colours because they cannot be created mixing other
colours. Only natural pigments are used to create them.

All the colours found on the Colour Wheel can be created by mixing primary colours together.
The Colour TASK 1

Wheel
It’s an easy visual way
of understanding
colours’ relationships
with each other.

Mix the primary colours RED, YELLOW, and BLUE, and you get the secondary colours on the
color wheel: orange, green, and violet.
Mix those with a primary colour, and you get the third level of the colour wheel, tertiary colours.
Those include red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.
Warm colours are usually associated with
warm things, such as red, orange and yellow.

Cool colours are usually associated with cool

things, such as blue, green and purple.

Neutral colours are not associated with any

colour. They are black, white, grey and some
browns.

When we mix them up with others, the

intensity of the colours changes.
 Warm as the sun, cool as the moon
Warm and cool trees
Warm days, cool nights TASK 2
 Colour
symbolism
Colour is all around us!
Whether we realize it or
not, it plays a big role in
our everyday lives. But not
everyone thinks about or
experiences colour in the
same way…