After my fourth grade students look at Paul Klee's colorful abstract art work, I show them how to use primary tempera paints (magenta, yellow and turquoise) plus white to get any complicated colors. I find if I don't give them white the colors get very deep and dark.
While they already know red and yellow make orange, a little more red makes yellow-orange. We use egg cartons to mix the colors in. So one egg cup ean mix three or more colors. The more colors they make in each cup the more complicated the colors get. Sharing colors is a great time saver. It is soon obvious to everyone that analagous colors create brights, while opposites create neutrals. I wish I had learned this in elementary school instead of college. Painting 101 would have been much easier.
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