Mixing Magicians

"Hello My Amazing Artists!"

This week we shifted gears and became mixing magicians. We talked about the color wheel as an artist's tool. We identified the primary colors - Red, Blue, Yellow - and how these three colors can create any color an artist needs.

My artists then began mixing magic to discover 3 new colors called secondary colors - Green, Purple, Orange.

I did not tell them what the secondary colors were.  Some artists knew what colors to expect. Some didn't and were excited when their mixing resulted in a new color. Magic!

This task also required artists to think, manage their materials and paint carefully as they completed their own color wheels in the correct order. This knowledge will be used again next week to create the all school collaboration project.

We also did the "Swish Test" to see if the class cleaned their brushes well. The color of the water told everyone if this was something to keep working on.

Clean water means well done!

Ask your artist about mixing magic.