Warm and Cool Sun

This week will be a continuation of color theory for the 10 am class and an overview for the 11:30 class.  

A color wheel (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet) is divided into warm and cool colors.  Warm colors (red, orange, yellow) are vivid and energetic and tend to advance or appear more active in a painting.  Cool colors (blue, green, violet) give an impression of being calm and soothing, they also tend to recede in a painting.

 

This week we will begin a painted canvas project of a sun.  Students will trace a circle to make the correct size of the sun's face. We will divide the face in half to give it a cubism look. We will add rays using straight and curved lines. Students will paint their sun using warm and cool colors. They can mix white paint to give them a tint of that color therefore creating a larger paint palette to work with.

This sun was painted, starting at the left moving right, cool, warm, cool, warm, cool, warm. 

If the above is to complicated, students can simplify and do half the face cool and half warm or a warm sun and cool background or cool sun and warm background.  This is example was done in crayon showing half cool and half warm.  Our project will be painted.

crayon example, our project will be painted