KS3 Colour wheel, colour terms, colour theory clear steps on making a colour wheel

This is a good place to start to understand what is colour and colour theory in the form of organising colours in a colour wheel. This i normally do in year seven but also go through again at GCSE - students should learn a large number of colour terms through this powerpoint.

The powerpoint gives clear steps to making a colour wheel and then explains all the colour terms in depth, primary, secondary colour snd tertiary colours, with complementary and analogous colours.

There are also more colour study tasks and more colour terms to understand, so it goes into more depth on different colours- including degraded colour, triads, hue, chroma, tint, tone, luminosity, lustre, neutral colours, monochrome and split contrasts.

We will be learning to make a colour wheel

We will be learning about colour terms

We will be learning to make a colour wheel with paint, or with pencil crayons or with found objects

We will be learning to combine a range of objects and arrange them in a colour wheel

We will be making a drawing developing a mood by using colour

There are also video clips on colour studies linked to tasks.

Based on an understanding of colour there is a task to represent their own memories and feelings using colour, shape and pattern. “Try to close their eyes and remember an experience in terms of colour and form. Try to make visual notes in your sketchbooks. Make a painting which symbolises the experience let your feelings and memories come out by using different colours, shapes and patterns.’”