Papa Piccolo’s pages are filled with color, and there are examples in its pages of complementary color. I was looking forward to the many art lessons this book offers…
Today we made our own color wheel, starting with just 3 colors:
Primary Colors - Red, Yellow, and Green
I explained that these 3 colors are the Primary colors and from these we can make others.
Primary Colors on color wheel
Satori chose 2 colors and combined them to see what they made. We ended up with 3 secondary colors – muddy violet, dark green, and vibrant orange!
Yellow and Blue make Green
It was a great introduction to colors, and although she doesn’t have her colors memorized on what red and orange make (she said purple right after we did this), every time in the future she is presented with this topic, or sees it while she’s painting, it will be an easier concept to understand. Same with almost everything we learn with our Five in a Row lessons. Some things she gets immediately, some take a few times.
Finished Color Wheel
After this, she was antsy to paint her own picture, so I let her at it, using only the three primary colors, and asked her to blend two of them in a few places. Here she is in red, with a purple swimsuit, swimming in the ocean, colorful beach balls on the beach, on a sunny day!
Satori at the Beach
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