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Warm Cool Colors Exploration

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Warm Cool Colours Exploration

Colour wheel showing warm and cool colours

🎨 Part 1: Colour Knowledge

1. Which of these are warm colours?

Red

Blue

Orange

Purple

Yellow

2. What effect do warm colours have in a painting?

They seem to move forward (advance)

They seem to move backward (recede)

They stay in the middle

3. What effect do cool colours have in a painting?

They seem to move forward (advance)

They seem to move backward (recede)

They stay in the middle

4. Which colours would you use to paint something in the background of a picture?

Warm colours

Cool colours

Both equally

✏️ Part 2: Colour Investigation

5. Draw and colour a warm colour square in the box below. Use only warm colours.
6. Draw and colour a cool colour square in the box below. Use only cool colours.
7. Complete these sentences about your colour experiments:

When I look at my warm colour square, it makes me feel _______________.

When I look at my cool colour square, it makes me feel _______________.

The warm colours seem to _____________ from the page.

The cool colours seem to _____________ into the page.

🖼️ Part 3: Planning Your Artwork

8. Describe how you could use warm and cool colours together in a future painting to create depth:
9. Sketch a simple idea for a picture that uses both warm and cool colours. Label which parts would be warm and which would be cool.
10. Which art vocabulary words did you learn today? Circle all that apply:

Advance

Recede

Foreground

Background

Warm colours

Cool colours

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