6th Grade Color Wheels

Today the 6th grade began painting their own color wheels. This lesson is great because it shows students how the colors are placed on the color wheel as well as how to use fine control of their paint brushes in making two different values of one color.

We viewed a great video of an artist painting trees and how he used value [going from light to dark] to create depth in his painting. The students learned to make two value shades of a paint color today on their color wheel. They will use this skill of value painting to create depth in their own projects over and over again in the next few weeks as we continue our current unit; "Paint like a Pro!"