1. 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

2. Three primary colours 1
Everyone knows the three primary colours

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

4. Three primaries make grey3
If you mix the three primaries you get grey

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

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

7. Complementaries = tertiary colours6
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)

8. Complementary colours are7 =
Looking at colour

9. 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

10. Brilliant Blue and Brilliant Yellow have too much red in them9
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

11. We need two of each primary colour10
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

12. The double primary system11
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

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

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

15. 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)

16. 8 section palette Sponge or cloth dirty water clean water
mixing palette
8 section paint palette
paper

17. 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

18. 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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