Lesson

Class: Color wheel Art Course ½ Art

Title/Focus

PROGRAM OF STUDY OUTCOMES

• Component 3- Students will interpret artwork literally –D. color variation is built on
three basic colors. E. tints and shades of colors or hues affect the contrast of a
composition.
• Component 6- students will represent surface qualities of objects and forms- C.
primary colors can be mixed to produce new hues.
• Component 10 (iii)- students will use media and techniques, with an emphasis on
exploration and direct methods in drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, fabric
arts, photography and technographic arts- concept B. painting.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. Identify that the color wheel is made up of primary and secondary colors which can
be split up into warm and cool colors.
2. Apply the knowledge of colors to create artwork which uses the different colors to
represent the ideas of warm and cool colors.
3. Use painting as their technique of exploring ideas and concepts about color.

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

• Color wheel print out
• Pencil crayons
• Paper
• Black crayon
• Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Water tubs
• Pencils
• Erasers
• Color wheel print out
• Exemplar
• Video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrGkJtSLsk

PREPARATION AND LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

• Have all the activities planned out and time sequenced
• Have the exemplar completed and posted on the front board for students to use as
reference
• Have the color wheel posted on the board for reference as well.
• Have all the materials ready and available to give to the students in a timely matter
 • Have the students understand that they need to be quiet when you are trying to
explain instructions.
• When students are working in partners, they will work with someone they are sitting
beside.
PROCEDURE
Introduction Time
• Introduce the students to the idea of the color wheel. Play the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrGkJtSLsk.
• To review the video-the color wheel is made up of all different colors.
There are primary colors- red, blue, yellow. As well as secondary colors-
5 min
green (blue + yellow), purple (red + blue), orange (yellow + red). The
color wheel is also broken up into warm and cool colors. The warm
colors are red, yellow, and orange. The cool colors are blue, green and
purple.
Body Time
Color Wheel 1) Hand out the color wheel coloring sheet to the
Coloring Sheet students. Have them color in the red, yellow, and
blue circles with the corresponding pencil crayons.
Ask them which color they think the other circles
will be and have them color in them as well. 10 min
Reinforce the idea that blue, green and purple are
cool colors and that red, orange and yellow are
warm.

Color Wheel Art 1) Show them the exemplar and ask a few questions.
Project “What materials do you think I used?” Where are
the cool colors?” “Where are the warm colors?”
2) Tell them that we will be starting this art project
today. Hand out a piece of paper to each student as
well as some circles for them to use to trace. Have
them work in partners and help each other with the
tracing process. Have them place the circle in the
middle of their paper and trace around it with the
pencil. 10 min
3) One side of the page/circle will be the sun and the
other will be the moon. Guide students in drawing
the moon outline in the circle to split it in half. Have
them draw two eyes on either side of the circle and
a smile that extends to both sides. On the sun side
of the paper have students draw diagonal lines from
the circle to the edge of the paper. On the moon
side, have the students draw squiggly lines from the
circle to edge of the paper. Have them draw
 different designs in each section created, these
include circles, triangles, stars, moons, or anything
else they would like to draw.
4) For the next class, or if there is time, have them
trace over all the lines in black crayon. Have them
paint their project, do one side at a time (all the
warm colors, or all the cool colors) to not mix too
many colors. Tell them to paint yellow first then
orange, red, blue, green, purple.

Conclusion Time
• Have them gather all the materials and put them away. Make sure their
names are on their projects and collect them all.
5 min
• Have the students line up at the door, silently and transition back to
class.
Assessment
• Visual observations of students work and effort- formative
• Taking in of the projects to see where the students are and if they are following the
different outcomes- formative

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