Warm and cool colors

Colours are often described in terms of temperature as “cool” or “warm”. These psychological associations have a lot to do with certain physical characteristics, like red-fire-warm, yellow-sun-warm or blue-ice-cold, green-shade-cold. Still, the feeling of warm and cool is relative. The same color might appear cool in the company of warm yellows and oranges and warm surrounded by cool greens. (I’ll look at it closer later this month when talking about contrasts.) When thinking of the colour…

Ever planning your fabric for a project and ask yourself: How can I make this section POP? Today we're talking about the magic little tool called temperature! There are warm colors and cool colors. Warm colors (generally, yellow, orange, and red) will POP, while cool colors (blue, green, purples) will recede. This is

Help your children learn all about warm and cool colors with this Warm and Cool Color Trees Grid Art Project! Learn about warm and cool colors in art

Been going crazy trying to design a cohesive room with a color palette that's perfectly "you"?Then look no further because Em has 4 easy steps for success.

Do you struggle to find the correct colors for your knitting or crochet project? Then this article is for you! In this article we’ll look at color theory and how it can be applied. We also give you our favorite color palette generators! What is color theory? Color theory basically encompasses the ways in which color is used, for example, in design. Color Matter notes that “there are three basic categories of color theory that are logical and useful : The color wheel, color harmony, and the…

"Don't use that tone with me."

This was an interesting concept to teach my 2nd graders. We looked at the color wheel. We looked at lots of examples of art that used warm or cool colors. We practiced separating the markers into d…

Teaching colors is one of the basic building blocks of art class. Whether you're teaching big kids or little use these printables to create a quick & easy bulletin board or display!

Warm and cool color theory art lesson for kids - night and day art project, solstice art project

The next project was slightly more successful than the last project. But I decided I really need to do these in the morning because when the girls are tired they are not as cooperative as I would like. After the less than successful attempt at pointillism, I decided to take a break from artist inspired projects and just do something I thought would be fun. I found this on my favorite art blog: The point of this is to use warm colors on the hand and cool colors on the outside. Great for…