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 mix purple and blend it into tints and shades.

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: purple, blend, tint, and shade.

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

Purple.

Blend.

Tint.

Shade.

Good job.

Now let's look at what each of these keywords mean.

Purple is a secondary colour made by mixing blue and red.

Blend means to use a brush to gently mix colours on paper.

Tint is adding white to a colour to make it lighter.

Shade is adding black to a colour to make it darker.

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

These are the learning cycles that'll be working through together in today's lesson: mixing and blending purple and making shades and tints.

In the first learning cycle, we're going to explore mixing and blending purple.

What colour is this? That's right, it's purple.

Purple is a secondary colour.

Blue add something equals purple.

What do you think that missing colour is? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, what do we mix blue with to make purple? And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said red, you are absolutely right.

Well done.

How has the artist created different purples? So looking here, what has happened? This artist has added more blue to make different hues of purple.

This artist has added more red to make different hues of purple.

Can you see how that purple has changed as the artist has added more red? Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which purple has been made with the most blue? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and then press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? Which purple has the most blue, A, B, or C? If you said C, you are absolutely right.

This purple has been mixed with the most blue.

Artists can mix their paint on a palette.

They can also blend their paint on paper.

This means mixing the two colours on the paper where they meet, to make it smooth.

Laura is looking at the purples blended together.

Laura says, "I like the way the colours meet.

It reminds me of the sky, with the sun setting." This artist is blending two purples together.

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 did you see? Could you see how the artist starts with one colour and then adds the other and then slowly moves into the centre and blends them together with that smoothness in the middle? Artists can mix colours on paper to create a soft blend.

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

Is this statement true or false? Paint can only be mixed in a paint palette.

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

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

Well done.

But why is this statement false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about why this statement is false, and press play when you are ready to continue.

Well, if you said that paint can be mixed in a paint palette, but it can also be mixed on paper to create a blend, then you are absolutely right.

Well done.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to first of all mix the primary colours of red and blue to make the secondary colour purple.

So pause the video here and give yourself time to do that, and then press play when you are ready to continue.

Okay, so hopefully you've done that, mixed your primary colours of red and blue to make purple.

Now I'd like you to mix a range of blue purples and red purples in your palette.

So here's some examples here.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at mixing a range of blue purples and red purples.

So adding more blue to the purple and adding more red to get those different hues.

And press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, you might have mixed something a bit like this in your palette.

We've got a red purple at this end here and a blue purple at this end.

Which purple hue did you like the most? Well done for mixing those different blue purples and red purples.

Now the second part of this task, I'd like you to use your purples to blend your colours together on the page.

So you've got your palette of different purples, and remember, you put one colour down and then the other colour at the bottom and mix them by smoothing it out into the middle, blending them together.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at blending different colours, and then press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? Let's take a look, shall we? You might have created these purple blends here.

Can you see how different hues have been used? You might have tried blending more than one purple.

You might have blended two blue purples together or maybe blended two red purples.

Hopefully you've had time to have a go at blending different versions.

Which one did you like the most? Maybe take a look at your partner's and look at each other's.

Which ones did you like the most out of the blends that you created? Well done for having a go at this learning task.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We are going to explore making tints and shades.

Laura and Lucas are experimenting making different purples.

So they've got purple and they've added some white to create this purple here.

Then we've got this reddy purple and added more white, and this is the colour we've got here.

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

What could you see there from those colours when we add the white? Well, the paint has become a lot lighter, hasn't it? Artists can make different purples by adding white to purple, and this is called a tint of purple.

Laura and Lucas are experimenting making tints of purple.

To make a tint of purple, you add a little bit of what? What do we add? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner, and then press play when you're ready to hear the answer.

If you said white, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

Laura and Lucas are experimenting making tints of purple.

Hmm, what word is missing here? The more white you add, the what your purple becomes.

If you said lighter, that's absolutely right.

Can you see that here they've added more of the white to that tint below? And it's become lighter.

Lucas looks at the purples.

"I wonder if we can make an even lighter tint." Hmm.

Look at those purples there.

How would we complete those missing gaps in that sentence? The more you add, the the purple becomes.

Hmm.

Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, what two words should be in there to help finish that sentence? Press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said, the more white you add, the lighter the purple becomes, you are right.

We can see that there looking at the purples that Lucas has created.

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

Is this statement true or false? To make a tint of purple, you add white.

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

If you said that that is true, you are absolutely right.

To make a tint of purple, you do add white to make it lighter.

So Lucas and Laura, they then try mixing a red purple with some white to make another tint, and this gives it a more pink colour to their tint.

Can you see that? Let's take a moment to pause here.

Which image shows a tint of purple, A, B, or C? 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 was A, you are right.

Well done.

Tints are made by adding white to a colour, so it's the lightest one there, isn't? We got B, which is our blend, and C, which is our shade, much darker.

Artists can also mix different purples by adding black to purple.

This is called a shade.

Laura and Lucas are experimenting making shades of purple.

To make a shade of purple, you add a little bit of what? What colour do we add? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to hear the answer.

If you said black, you are absolutely right.

That's how we make a shade of purple.

Laura and Lucas are experimenting making shades of purple.

The more black you add, the your purple becomes.

Hmm.

Take a look at those two shades there.

What has happened when we've added more black? Hmm.

Well, it's become darker.

If you said the more black you add, the darker your purple becomes, you are right, well done.

It's a good spot looking at those shades there.

Lucas looks at the purples.

"I wonder if we can make an even darker shade." What do you think? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about this sentence here and what's missing from it to complete it.

The more you add, the the purple becomes.

Hmm.

And press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said the more black you add, the darker the purple becomes, you are absolutely right, well done.

Let's pause here.

This statement, to make a shade of purple, you add white, is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

Press play when you are ready to continue.

If you said that's false, you are right, well done.

But why is this statement false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

Why is it false that you make a shade of purple by adding white? And press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said shades are made by adding black, this can make a colour darker, you are right, well done.

When you add white, that's when you are making a tint.

Lucas and Laura decide to make shades of purple by adding black.

"Oh!" Laura says.

"It has made it too dark.

It's hard to tell that the colour is purple anymore." What could Laura and Lucas do differently do you think here? Hmm.

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

What did you think? How could they make this purple again or do something differently to make it not so dark? Well, adding too much black will make a very dark paint.

You could try adding only a small amount of black.

Oh, that's much better.

Laura can still see purple in this colour, so we've got to be careful how much black paint we add creating shades.

This artist is making shades of purple.

They are being careful to only add a small amount of black paint to the colour purple.

This brings us to our last learning task.

I'd like you to make tints of purple by adding white.

So remember, purple add white.

And then make shades of purple by adding black, so the purple add black.

And be careful with that black paint.

Only add a little bit at a time.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at making some tints of purple and some shades of purple, and then press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? Let's take a look at some examples.

You might have made tints of purple that look like this.

You might have added lots of white.

You might have added just a little bit of white and got lots of different versions.

You might have had some purple pinks in there as well.

Now to make the shades of purple, you might have got something like this.

You might have made dark purple blues.

You might have made purple red as well.

So well done for having a go at making those tints and shades of purple.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about mixing secondary colours, those summer purples.

We're able to mix a range of purples using those primary colours.

Artists can mix colours on paper using blending.

We can add white to make tints of colour, making a colour lighter.

And we can add black to make shades of colour, making a colour darker.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.