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 will be able to mix a range of greens using your knowledge of primary and secondary 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 words down.

The keywords we'll be using today are: primary colour, secondary colour, green.

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

Primary colour, secondary colour, green.

Good job.

Now let's think in more detail about what these keywords mean.

Let's take a look at their definitions.

The primary colours are three colours that can be mixed together to make other colours.

A secondary colour are colours that are made by mixing two primary colours together.

Green is a secondary colour made by mixing blue and yellow together.

Pause the video here and make a note of these keywords, And when you're ready to continue, press play.

These are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together in today's lesson: Identifying primary and secondary colours and Mixing spring greens.

In the first learning cycle, we're going to explore identifying primary and secondary colours.

What is the special name for this group of colours? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, these are the primary colours, and they are yellow, blue, and red.

So these are the primary colours.

Primary colours are special because they cannot be made by mixing other colours together.

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

Which of these is a primary colour? A, B, or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you are ready to continue.

If you said B, you are absolutely right.

Yellow cannot be made by mixing other colours together, so it is a primary colour.

What is missing from this colour sentence? So if we had yellow add something equals green.

So when we mix yellow with another colour, it makes green.

Hmm.

Pause the video here and have a minute to think.

Which colour do you think is missing here from this colour sentence? And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, if you said blue, you are absolutely right.

Yellow and blue make green.

Let's see that colour sentence again.

So we have yellow and blue equals green.

Hmm.

What are yellow and blue? Yes, they're primary colours.

Now when we mix primary colours with each other, they make secondary colours.

So we've got blue and yellow, both primary colours mixed together, they make the secondary colour green.

Green is a secondary colour.

Yellow and blue equal green.

They make that secondary colour.

What about purple? Purple is also a secondary colour.

If you mix blue and red, they make purple.

And then we've got orange.

How do you think orange might be made? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, orange is a secondary colour.

Red and yellow makes orange.

Well done if you thought it was red and yellow too.

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

Is this statement true or false? Primary colours can be made by mixing secondary colours together.

Is that statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said it's false, you are right.

Well done! But why is this statement false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about why this statement isn't true and press play when you are ready to continue.

Well, if you said that primary colours cannot be made by mixing other colours together and this is what makes them a special group of colours, then you are right.

Primary colours can't be made by mixing secondary colours together.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to sort these colours into primary and secondary groups.

So we have the colours here: red, purple, yellow, green, orange and blue.

So can you sort which ones are the primary and which are the secondary colours? Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to sort those colours into those groups and press play when you are ready to continue.

How did you get on? Shall we take a look? So you should have said that red, blue, and yellow are all primary colours, and that orange, purple, and green are secondary colours.

Well done if you sorted those colours correctly.

Now let's have a go at the second part of this learning task.

Can you complete these colour sentences? So we have yellow add blue equals.

something add yellow equals orange, blue add something equals purple and something add blue equals green.

So there's four colour sentences there to complete.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to do that, and press play when you are ready to continue.

How did you get on? Shall we take a look? So, yellow and blue equals green.

Red add yellow equals orange.

Blue add red equals purple.

And yellow add blue equals green.

So hopefully you filled the colours in of green, then red, then red again, and then yellow to complete those colour sentences.

Well done.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're going to take a look at mixing spring greens.

How do you think these shades of green were made? Hmm? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

How do you think these shades of green were made? And press play when you are ready to continue.

What were you thinking? Well, artists can make different greens by changing the amount of blue or the amount of yellow that they mix together.

When an artist adds more blue, they might get these sorts of greens.

So let's take a look when we do green add more blue.

We might get a green like this, or maybe ones like these.

So we've got five different greens there.

All different because we've added more blue.

Jacob looks at the different greens he has made by adding more blue.

He has made these ones here.

What can you see? How have they changed? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think about how these greens have changed by adding more blue, and press play when you Are ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, hopefully you could see that those greens have got deeper and stronger by adding more blue.

This artist is mixing different greens by adding blue.

What do you notice? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

And press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you notice this artist doing? Could you see how she was taking some of that green and then adding the blue? And then look at these different colours of green on the page.

Can you see how they've got darker and deeper and even stronger in their colour? So if I add blue, I make a different green, like this artist was here.

So I take a bit of green and add blue and more of that blue each time to create different greens.

I'd like you to have a go at that now.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to add blue to green to make those different green colours, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully you have a page of lots of different greens.

And hopefully you can see that by adding blue to green, it's made the green darker and stronger.

When an artist adds more yellow to green, they might get these sorts of greens.

Hmm.

Jacob looks at the different greens he has made by adding more yellow.

The greens have now become brighter and lighter.

Could you see that? By adding more yellow, the greens have become brighter and lighter.

This artist is mixing different greens by adding yellow.

What do you notice? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, and press play when you are ready to continue.

What could you see? Could you see that the artist was making those greens lighter and brighter by adding more yellow? So adding yellow to make different greens, we start with that bit of green and add more yellow as we go.

I'd like you to have a go at that now.

Add that yellow to make different greens.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to do that, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully you have a page of different greens like this, and the greens here have become lighter and brighter.

Hopefully yours have too.

Mixing different greens allows artists to make their work more varied and exciting.

This artist has mixed green in lots of different ways to make an interesting artwork.

So we have a green up here and maybe a darker different shade here, and even darker still in this lower section.

Can you see which greens have more blue added to them and which ones had more yellow? Remember, the ones that are lighter and brighter have had more yellow added, and the ones that are deeper and stronger are the ones that have had more blue added to them.

So you see eight different types of green there in this one painting.

This brings us to our final learning task.

In your sketchbook, or on paper, explore how many different greens you can make by adding more blue.

So green, add blue, we're gonna get those different shades of deeper and stronger greens.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to explore how many different greens you can make by adding blue.

And then press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Hopefully you made lots of different shades of green.

You might have done something a bit like this, added more green and less blue, or added a small amount of the blue to the green or maybe added more blue to the green and get all these different types of greens here.

Now for the second part, in your sketchbook or on paper, I'd now like you to explore how many different greens you can make by adding more yellow.

So we've got green add yellow equals all these different kinds of greens that we could create.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go exploring these greens by adding more yellow, and press play when you are ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, you might have created greens like this where you've added more yellow to the green, added a small amount of yellow to the green, or added more green and less yellow.

Well done for having go exploring those different types of greens.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about mixing secondary colours: spring greens.

We know that we can make new colours when we mix two primary colours together.

We know the names of the primary and secondary colours, and we also know how to mix a range of greens using primary colours.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.