Painting and the Double Primary System Why it is best to use a palette with two reds, two blues and two yellows and have a separate mixing palette and both clean and dirty water and a sponge. Dan China

Three primary colours 1 Everyone knows the three primary colours

The secondary colours 2 It is helpful to use the colour circle as the basis for looking at colour

Three primaries make grey 3 If you mix the three primaries you get grey

complementaries 4 Therefore mixing complementary colours is the same as mixing three primaries.

complementaries 5 Mixing yellow + (blue and red) = grey Complementary colours are opposites in the colour circle Mixing yellow + (blue and red) = grey

Complementaries = tertiary colours 6 These greys and browns mixed with complementary colours are tertiary colours (they contain the 3 primary colours) Tertiary colours Mixing blue + (red and yellow) = grey (good for skies)

Complementary colours are 7 = Looking at colour

School paints 8 School paints These standard school colours are part of a continuum. For instance, red moves from a reddish purple through to a deep reddish orange

Brilliant Blue and Brilliant Yellow have too much red in them 9 Some yellow in the red makes the purple slightly dull Some red in the yellow makes the green slightly dull Brilliant red is close to orange and contains some yellow Brilliant yellow is close to orange and contains some red Brilliant blue is close to purple and contains some red

We need two of each primary colour 10 Crimson and brilliant blue contains no yellow and will mix brilliant Pure magenta/purple Brilliant red and brilliant yellow will mix good orange We need two reds, two yellows, two blues to mix clear secondary colours. This is the double primary system. Lemon yellow and cobalt has no red at all and will mix brilliant acid lemon greens

The double primary system 11 Double Primary System Brilliant Red (scarlet, strawberry, tomato, pillar box) Crimson (raspberry, wine) Brilliant Yellow (sunflower, buttercup) Lemon Yellow (lemons) Brilliant Blue (Ultramarine, Bluebells) Cobalt (sky, Cornflowers) + white + black or prussian blue This means we need an eight well Colour palette

Add richness 12 Note use of complementary colours here Look at Seurat, Cezanne etc – greys and complemetaries

Painting equipment – how not to organise it. Using equipment Being in control

Painting equipment – how not to organise it. To make it work and be in control You need an eight well palette You also need a separate palette for mixing You also need water to clean your brush (dirty water) You also need a cloth or sponge to dry your brush You also need water to dilute colour (clean water)

8 section palette Sponge or cloth dirty water clean water mixing palette 8 section paint palette paper

8 section palette Sponge or cloth dirty water clean water When changing and mixing colours children should be taught to get into the habit of cleaning their brush (in the dirty water jar) then drying it on the sponge before taking more paint from the paint palette and adding it to the mixing palette. They also clean and dry their brush before taking clean water and adding it to the paint in the mixing palette to dilute their colour. If they do this they will be in control of their colour mixing. Sponge or cloth dirty water clean water mixing palette 8 section paint palette paper

Setting out a painting table Shared equipment between two Personal equipment Sponge or cloth dirty water clean water mixing palette 8 section paint palette paper

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