In the ongoing series of our lessons on the elements of art we have been experimenting with colour. Students learned about the three ‘primary’ (or first) colours: red, yellow, and blue. These are colours that cannot be made by other colours but, when combined, will create other colours. These colours are called ‘secondary’ colours. These colours are: green (made from blue and yellow), purple (red and blue combined), and orange (red and yellow put together). These are ‘secondary’ colours if they are mixed with equal parts of each ‘primary’ colour. When more of one primary is used than the other, then the resulting colour is called an ‘intermediate’ colour.
