Lesson video

Hello, artists.

Welcome back to lesson number three of our unit on painting.

Last lesson, we were experimenting a lot with our painting but without using a paint brush.

And we focused on using three different techniques.

I wonder if you can still remember the names of those three techniques.

I'll give you a clue, I'm going to show you the actions and if you remember you can say the name of the technique with the action.

Did you remember them? Should we say them together? There was splashing and scraping and we had pouring but we actually ended up trying rolling didn't we? I had a lot of fun using things like, marbles, skewers, old bits of cardboard, just to experiment with the paint and see the different marks they can make because sometimes using just the paint brush can get a little bit boring.

Now in today's lesson, I'm going to be teaching you all about the colours of the world.

And a little bit later on, I'll be giving you a workshop for mixing colours and you'll be having a go at this yourself.

But I want to start off today's lessons by speaking some positive affirmations.

Now you might have never done this before and that's okay.

But basically what we're going to do is I'm going to hold up some sentences.

And they are positive sentences that we're going to say to ourselves, because things we say can affect what we think, and things that we think can affect how we feel and how we feel, can also affect how we act.

So it's really important that we practise speaking kind things to ourselves every day.

I'll read the sentence fast and you repeat after me.

I am better than I think.

I believe in myself.

I am focused.

I am creative.

And last one, I am an artist.

Hope you enjoyed that and maybe can make some of your own positive affirmations about other parts of your life.

Now, let's get started and see what we're going to do today.

Here's the equipment you're going to need for today's lesson.

Some paint, preferably some thick paint maybe poster paint or water-based paint.

And you're only going to need the colours, yellow, red and blue for today.

You'll also need a paint and a pot to go with your paint.

Of course you're going to need your apron or painting shirt which your parent or carer said is fine for you to paint in.

And you're going to need some thick paper, card or your sketchbook.

And lastly, you're going to need a table cover.

So this might be newspaper or a plastic table cover that you can wash afterwards.

We're going to start off our lesson today with our magical star words.

Well done.

Then we're going to be learning all about the colours of the world.

After that, I'll be sending you off on another scavenger hunt.

I like doing scavenger hunts.

I think it gets us nice and warmed up and wakes up our bodies for the rest of the lesson.

Then I'll be giving you a workshop on mixing colours.

And finally and as always we'll come back here to reflect and talk about all the things we've learned about colours today.

So let's start with our star words.

I'm going to ask you to sit up straight and maybe shake your arms out a little bit.

Give your head a little bit of a wiggle too.

Are you ready? I'll say it fast, and you repeat it back to me.

First word, colour.

Colour.

Great job.

Hue.

Hue.

Mixing.

Mixing.

Primary.

Primary.

Secondary Secondary.

Fantastic, now let's find out a little bit more about that word, primary.

So it's time to learn all about the colours of our world.

And I want to start by talking about three very important colours.

And these three colours are, yellow, red and blue.

These are three very special colours.

They are called primary colours.

Should we say it together? Primary colours.

And primary was our star word, wasn't it? The reason the primary colours are so special is because they cannot be created by mixing any other colours.

They are a colour on their own.

But when you mix any two of these three primary colours you can create a whole bunch of other colours and they are called our secondary colours.

And that is your job today.

You are going to be investigating what those three secondary colours are.

To try and remember what the three primary colours are, I always like to picture the work of Piet Mondrian.

And this picture in front of you is inspired his paintings.

So I wanted to see if that trick will help you remember the three primary colours as well.

So for 10 seconds, we are going to stare at this picture.

And then I'm going to ask you a question, okay? Off we go.

10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Can you tell me what's colour is missing from the picture? And how about now? Well, I hope that worked for you.

Let's have a quick quiz to see if you remembered.

What are the three primary colours? I want you in just a second to tell me the three names of the primary colours and then I will reveal the answer to see if you got it correct, okay? Tell me now, what are the three primary colours? Did you guess it right? Did you say yellow and red and blue? If you did, give yourself a big pat on the back.

You have been doing some fantastic listening so far.

I'm going to give you a speedy warmup challenge now just to get our brains turned on.

So I want you to grab a blank piece of paper or open your sketchbook to a nice blank page.

And this is your challenge.

It says, can you write the names of the three primary colours but using the wrong colours? So what that means is, have a look at the picture on your screen.

And I have written the word green but have I use the green pencil to write it? No, I used red, so I used the wrong colour.

I did the same for these two words as well.

This one says black, but I use the colour orange.

So I use the wrong colour.

So I want you to do the same thing, in your book with the three primary colours.

And our three primary colours are, red, yellow and blue, okay? Off you go.

press pause when you're ready to start and press play when you're ready to carry on.

All right, I hope you enjoyed that quick warm up challenge.

And I want to ask you a question now.

Your question is, is there only one type of each colour? Now, if you don't understand that I'm going to show you a picture.

And I want you to imagine that if the world could only have one type of each colour for example, the sky, if it was blue was all the same shade of blue and the same for grass, it would all be the same colour green.

So is that only one type of each colour? No, there is so many different types of each colour and that's why we get sunsets with so many different beautiful colours to look at.

And the same for everything around us.

There are different shades and tints all around us and that's what makes our world so beautiful.

And we learned a little bit about this in unit one.

And we said that the name for different types of colour was called hue.

Shall we say that together? Hue.

Your next challenge is a colour scavenger hunt.

And the reason I'm going to send you on a colour scavenger hunt is because we going into investigate how many different types of hue of one colour you can find in your home.

So choose one primary colour.

It can be yellow, red, or blue.

I chose the colour blue as you can see in my pictures over here.

And you have a few minutes to find as many small objects or items of that colour.

If you want, you could arrange them in a nice and satisfying arrangement like I did over there.

And you could even take a picture.

Press pause now, when you're ready to go off on your colour scavenger hunt and press play when you finished that activity.

Welcome back, I hope you enjoyed your colour scavenger hunt.

Now it's time for our mixing colour workshop.

So I'll be showing you in the next video, how you can start mixing your three primary colours and how it can investigate what those secondary colours are.

In today's mixing colour workshop, you will need yellow, red and blue paint, our three primary colours.

You also need some water, a paintbrush and a palette or paper plates to put your paints on.

Oh, and two pieces of paper card or two pages in your sketchbook.

Start by dividing your page in half by drawing a line down the middle with the ruler.

Then you're going to decide which two colours you want to mix first.

I chose yellow and red.

Place a small blob of each colour paint onto your palette and then take a small amount of your first colour on your paintbrush and paint a straight line like this.

Then you're going to add a teeny tiny amount of your second colour to your brush and mix in with the first colour.

Make sure you completely mix it so the colour is consistent and then paint a second line directly under the first.

And again, add another small teeny tiny amount, mix and paint your line directly below.

Keep doing this and a new hue will be revealed each time.

When you reach the bottom, don't forget to clean your brush and change your water, ta da! And then repeat all over again with two different colour combinations.

Have fun investigating what the secondary colours are.

When you're ready to begin your mixing colours activity, I want you to press pause.

But, remember to come back and press play when you finished the activity so we can talk about what you found out and if you discovered what the secondary colours are.

Press pause now and I'll see you shortly.

Welcome back, can you give me a big wave if you have finished with your mixing colours activity.

Fantastic, and now I want to ask you what you discovered about colours today.

So the first question I'm going to ask you is, did you find out what colour yellow and red makes? You did, can you tell me what colour it is? I'll show you in three, two, one.

Did you get it right? Well done, yellow and red makes orange.

Next, what colour does red and blue make? Can you shout it out? Three, two, one.

Did you say purple? Well done, and last but not least, did you find out what colour blue and yellow makes? can you tell me in three, two, one? Did you guess it correct? Well done on your mixing colour investigation today.

So what we have discovered today is that orange purple and green are our secondary colours and secondary was another star word of ours.

Can we say secondary together? Secondary.

So our secondary colours are orange, purple and green.

Can you say them with me? Orange, purple and green.

Great job.

What else did we discover about colours today? Well, we found out that there isn't just one type of colour.

When we mixed our colours together, we didn't just get one type of orange or one type of green, we've got lots of different hues.

Didn't we? Did you find lots of different hues when you were mixing your colours? If you've got your painting in front of you, I want you to point to your favourite hue that you painted today.

So just choose your favourite hue of colour.

Okay, I thought we'd finish the lesson with one more quick fun quiz to see if you've remembered the names of your three primary colours.

I'm going to call out lots of names of colours.

And if you here one of the three primary colours, I want you to wave your hands like crazy.

Can you do that for me? Okay, let's begin.

Pink, green, yellow, black, blue, brown, orange, red.

Did you wave your hands for red, yellow, and blue? Well done, you have remembered all three primary colours.

Now, I thought we'd finish off with our positive affirmations.

So the really kind sentences that we've read aloud to ourselves.

Are you ready to do it? Okay, I am better than I think.

I believe in myself.

I am focused.

I am creative.

I am an artist.

Well, I hope you enjoyed that lesson.

And again, if you wanted to make any of your own positive affirmations that would be a really nice thing to do.

Try to make it a habit so you keep thinking positive thoughts and I'll see you next lesson, bye-bye.