Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today all about the seasons, painting and colour mixing.

We're going to do lots of thinking, exploring, and talking together in this lesson.

So, shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to identify and mix hot and cold colours.

Before we start, I would like to introduce you to some keywords.

We'll be using these keywords during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these keywords down.

The keywords we'll be using today are hot colours, cold colours, palette.

I'm gonna say those words again, and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Hot colours, cold colours, palette.

Good job.

Now let's think about what each of these keywords mean.

Hot colours are hues, tints, and shades of yellow, orange, and red.

Cold colours are hues, tints, and shades of green, blue, and purple.

Palette is the name we give to a group of colours that are used within an artwork.

Pause a video here to make a note of these key words, and when you are ready to continue, press Play.

These are the learning cycles I'll be working through together in today's lesson.

We're going to identify hot colours and we're going to mix cold colours.

So in this first learning cycle, we're going to explore identifying hot colours.

What colours do you see here? Pause the video and take a moment to think and then press Play when you're ready to continue.

What could you see? Maybe some reds, pinks, oranges.

What did these colours remind you of? They reminded me of a few things.

I could see a tropical bird with all those reds and pinks, or maybe even a brilliant sunset with that lovely yellow poking through where we could still see the sun.

All of these colours, red, orange, and yellow are all examples of hot colours.

So here we've got yellow, orange, and red, hot colours.

Why do you think they're hot colours? This artwork has used those hot colours.

When these colours are used in an artwork, they are called a hot colour palette.

This does not mean that these colours can actually change the temperature, but they may look or make us feel warm.

Hot colours are colours that look like they might be really warm, like the sun or a fire.

They remind us of heat because when we see them, we might think of things like a hot day or a sunset.

So look at that orange there in the fire, and we've got those different hues of yellow.

Those colours can make us feel warm and cosy.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Is this statement true or false? Hot colours can make someone feel warmer.

Pause the video and talk to your partner.

Is this statement true or false? And then press Play when you are ready to continue.

If you said that's true, you are absolutely right.

Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about why this statement is true and press Play when you are ready to continue.

If you said that these colours do not really change the temperature, but they can make people feel warmer by looking at them as they remind them of hot things like the sun or a fire, then you are right, well done.

Artists can also mix yellow, orange, and red together to make different hot colours, and you see some different versions there.

This makes a wide range of colours in a hot colour palette.

Let's take a moment to pause here.

Which of these are hot colours? A, B, or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said A and B, you are right.

Yellow and orange are both hot colours.

C is a blue/green colour.

This is not a hot colour because it doesn't remind us of fire or the sun, but of cool things like water and ice.

Why is this colour part of the hot colour palette? Pauses a video here and have a quick discussion with your partner.

Press Play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? Why is this colour part of a hot colour palette? Well, pink is made by mixing red and white.

So red, add some white, creates that pink.

I remember that tints are made by adding white to a colour.

This means pink is a tint of red.

So pink is a hot colour.

Let's take a moment to pause here.

Complete this colour sentence.

Red add something equals pink.

Pause a video here and give yourself a moment to think about what completes this colour sentence and press Play when you are ready to continue.

If you said that white is what we need to put in here, you are absolutely right.

Red add white equals pink.

How do you feel when you look at this artwork? Hmm.

Maybe the colours make you feel warm.

Maybe you're transported to a sunny place.

Maybe it makes you think of the sun rising or setting.

Izzy is looking at the artwork.

Izzy noticed that the colours are all hot colours.

They make her feel warm and happy.

Warm colours could also make Izzy feel cosy or excited.

That's because they remind her of things like sun, fire and warmth.

This brings us to our first learning task.

First of all, what hot colours can you see in this artwork? And then how do the colours make you feel when you look at them? So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to identify the hot colours you can see in the artwork, and then describe how they make you feel when you look at them.

And press Play when you are ready to continue.

How did you get on? What colours did you identify? Which hot colours and how did they make you feel? Well, you might have spotted a pink, a yellow, and another yellow here, and an orange, maybe this different hue here, and this darker red.

Well done if you spotted those different colours, the hues in that hot colour palette.

And how did those colours make you feel? Jun says the colours remind him of a carnival with bright warm hues of pink.

Izzy says, these colours remind her of a roaring fire on a winter's day.

When I think about hot colours like red, orange, yellow, and pink, they make me feel warm, happy, and even full of energy.

They remind me of the sun, fire or a bright summer day.

How did they make you feel? What did you think about? Well done for having a go at that learning task.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're going to explore mixing cold colours.

What colours can you see in this artwork? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press Play when you are ready to continue.

What colours could you see? You might have noticed some purple.

Maybe another hue of purple here, slightly redder.

Maybe this blue here.

The darker shade of blue and the primary colour of blue.

Oh, let's fill the gap in this sentence.

Blue, green, and purple are all examples of what colours? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think what word is missing from this sentence? And press Play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that blue, green, and purple are all examples of cold colours, you are absolutely right.

Well done.

The artist has created this artwork using a cold colour palette.

The colours might remind you of a winter's day, ice or a cold river.

Let's pause here.

Which of these colours are cold colours? A, B, or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think about this.

And press Play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said B and C, the green and purple are both cold colours, you are absolutely right.

Well done.

Jun is thinking about making an artwork using a cold colour palette.

"I am going to use purple, blue, and green to make my artwork cold." Jun is thinking about what he could add to his palette of cold colours.

He's got three colours at the moment.

He decides to make shades of his cold colours.

"My shades will make my artwork look cold and dark," he says.

You see those shades he's created on his palette? Can you remember how we make a shade? Can you remember which colour we add? That's correct.

We add black to make a shade so the colour gets darker.

Jun has another idea.

"I also want the painting to feel cold like winter, using light tints to make the blues icy." How can Jun make tints of blue? Hmm.

Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and then press Play when you are ready to continue.

How can he do it? Well, this artist is making some tints of blues, purples, and greens.

What are they doing? Artists can use tints in an artwork to make it feel lighter and cooler like ice.

What is this artist adding to those colours? They're adding white to create that tint and make it lighter.

So I'm gonna make tints of cold colours, thereby adding the white to those colours.

I want you to have a go at that.

Pause the video here and add white to your cold colour palette to create tints of cold colours.

And press Play when you are ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully your palette looks a bit like this now, where you've added those tints of cold colours.

An artist can add more or less white to make different tints of blue.

Jun makes tints of blue for his cold colour palette.

There we can see them.

He's made lots of different tints of blue.

Jun thinks about how he might apply his paint.

I'm going to use smooth curved blends in my artwork.

I might also roll some objects through the paint to add texture.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to select a palette of hot or cold colours.

Then make shades of your colours.

And make tints of your colours.

Choose your painting techniques and then create your artwork using your palette of colours.

So follow each of these steps.

Make sure you give yourself enough time.

Firstly, choose your palette of hot or cold colours.

Then make shades of your colours by adding black.

Then make tints of your colours by adding white.

And then choose your painting techniques.

What are you going to use to do that? Is it going to be a pine cone or a stick? Or maybe you're going to blend colours together using your paintbrush, and then create your artwork using your palette of colours.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at following these steps through.

And then press Play when you are ready to continue.

How did you get on? Shall we take a look at an example? Well, you might have created something like this.

You maybe have used blending with different hues of colour, used tints and used shades, rolled an object through the wet paint and used painting techniques such as glazes.

So here we've used a cold colour palette and you can see those blues and greens and the tints have been made lighter with white and the shades have made darker with the black.

And using an object like a pine cone to roll through to make that texture at the top.

And the painting techniques, the glaze, to make it look shiny and have another hue of colour on top.

Well done for having a go at mixing those colours and creating your artwork.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about hot and cold colours.

A hot colour palette includes yellow, orange, and red.

A cold colour palette includes green, purple, and blue.

Tints and shades can be used to extend a palette of colour, and these can affect our mood or feeling.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.