During Art on Friday we reviewed colour theory and discussed the primary colours – red, blue, and yellow.  We used plastic coloured palettes to show how by putting two primary colours together that they made an intermediate colour. We put red and yellow together to make orange; blue and red together to make purple; and blue and yellow together to make green.

Students then created a tesselation in black marker on their paper.  They filled in all the spaces by using wax crayons. The instructions were to only use the three primary colours, but they were expected to create the intermediate colours from those three primaries.

Students found it quite easy to create green and orange; purple was more challenging.  The students worked very well on this project and the end results are very impressive.