Hi Grade 1s! Welcome to the art room! I'm
sad not to see your beautiful smiling faces
every day, but I hope that you're having fun
at home and that you're being creative. By
now you would've watched the videos that I
posted for you all about primary colours and
secondary colours, and the colour wheel. Today,
we're going to make a colour wheel creature.
We're going to start off by using something
round to trace. I'm using a sticky tape, but
ask mum or dad or someone at home to help
you find something round that you can trace,
so that you can end up with a shape like that:
a circle. Now we have to divide our circle
into 6 slices, almost like a pizza! So we're
going to start off by drawing a line straight
through the middle. Again, ask somebody to
help you with this if you're finding it a
little bit tricky. If it's not quite in the
middle, don't worry, it's not the end of the
world. Once you've divided your circle into
6 pieces, like that, --- and you can see mine
isn't perfect either, but that's okay. Just
do the best you can. --- Now we're going start
with our colours. Now the first three colours
that we have to colour in are the primary
colours. And the primary colours are RED,
YELLOW and BLUE. Now you can use anything
to colour in these primary colours! You can
use paints, you can use pencil crayons or
wind-ups, or khokis. I'm going to use khokis.
I'm going to do my red block over here. Colour
in as neatly as you can. So you can use wax
crayons: anything that you have at home. It
doesn't matter what you use, as long as it's
red. I'm just going to do mine really quickly
so that you can see how to do it, but you're
obviously going to take your time and do it
nicely. So there's our red slice. Now we need
a blue slice. So we're going to skip one an
we're going to go onto the next one. And we're
going to make this one blue. It doesn't matter
if it's light blue or dark blue, as long as
it's blue. Colour it in using your wind-ups
or crayons or paint it if you want to. Oh!
There's the bell! At least it kind of feels
like you're still at school, guys: you can
still hear the bell! Right, here we go. So
you colour those in beautifully. And now we're
going to skip another one and we're going
to do yellow. The last of our three primary
colours. Now the three primary colours make
every single colour in the whole world. You
can make any colour you like, as long as you've
got these three primary colours. But Grade
1s, you can't make a primary colour. You can
use them to mix other colours, but you can't
actually make a red or a blue or a yellow.
Right, now that we've got our three primary
colours, now we need our secondary colours.
Now, secondary colours, like you saw in the
video, are made when two primary colours are
mixed. So, if I mix red and yellow, I'm going
to get ORANGE. So this block between the red
and the yellow, I'm going to colour in orange.
The blocks in between the next two colours.
Have a little think while you're waiting for
me to finish.What do you think yellow and
blue will make if you mix them together? They're
going to make the next secondary colour, which
is ----- you got it! --- GREEN. Well done!
So in between yellow and blue, I'm going to
colour green, because if we mix those two
together, that's what we would get. Do you
remember from the video? Great stuff!Let's
colour in this little pizza slice. Our colour
wheel's becoming beautiful now! And we've
only got one more slice that we have to colour
in! So while I'm finishing the green, have
a little think. If I had to mix blue and red
together, what do you think you would make?
Great! You'd make PURPLE! Well done! For those
of you who guessed that, who worked that out,
that's great! You know your colour wheel,
don't you? Right, let's just colour that in
nicely. So let's have a little look. We've
got our three primary colours: RED, YELLOW
and BLUE. And we've got our three secondary
colours, which is ORANGE, PURPLE and GREEN.
And voila! We have our colour wheel! But I
think it's time to do something with our colour
wheel. Now this is where your imagination
comes in. You need to think: What can I make
out of this colour wheel?What creature could
I make? Could I maybe turn it into something
else, like an umbrella? Or could I turn it
into a snail? Or perhaps a tortoise? I'm going
to turn mine into a little tortoise. And I'm
going to take a black khoki to do this. Maybe
you want to do it in pencil first, just until
you're sure. And I'm going to do the turtle's
head in the yellow part, like that. And I'm
going to make this the turtle's shell, so
that means my turtle needs a little tail on
the end, and he needs four legs. So, I'm going
to do a little leg here, and a little leg
there, and a little leg here, and one more
over there! Now I can go over it in black
pen. You don't have to, but if you've got
a black kohki or a black pen lying at home,
it's quite a nice thing to do. I'm going to
go over his legs and his head. And let's give
him some little eyes. He's quite a cute little
turtle or tortoise! I can't really give him
a smile because we're looking at him from
the top down, so you probably wouldn't see
his mouth, but maybe he has little toenails.
And I think I'm going to name him Toby the
Tortoise. If you'd like to, guys, you can
colour that little tortoise in any colour
you like, maybe using pencil crayon, or something
else that you haven't used before. I'm using
pencil crayon because I've already used khoki.
Going to colour in his little feet. So I want
you to think. What could you make out of your
colour wheel? You don't have to do a Toby
the Tortoise, or Toby the Turtle. You could
do something completely different! I like
the idea of maybe doing an umbrella. Umbrellas
are beautiful! You could also turn it into
a flower. You could turn your colour wheel
into a tree; an imaginary rainbow tree! You
could do anything you like! So what I want
you to do when it's your turn to make your
colour wheel, is I want you to turn your colour
wheel into something that you have chosen.And
I want you to ask mum and dad or whoever's
helping you to do this project to take a photo
of what you've made and put it on, so that
I can see -- on Google Classroom--, what you've
made. And that other children can also see
what you've made, and that your teachers can
see what you've made. Because I'm quite sure
that you're going to do some beautiful, beautiful
art! So Grade 1s, I hope you have lots of
fun making Toby the Turtle or an umbrella,
or a flower, or a tree out of the colour wheel!
Let's go through the colours again just to
remind you. Your primary colours are RED,
YELLOW and BLUE. Your secondary colours are
ORANGE, PURPLE an d GREEN. See you soon! Bye!
