Warm Colors Warm, or advancing colors , are those that resemble fire and heat. Red, red-violet, red-orange, and yellow-orange are examples of warm colors. Warm colors appear closer and are more eye catching than cool colors.
Warm Colors Red Orange Yellow
How do you feel when looking and these pictures?
Co ol Co lo rs
Cool Colors Cool, or receding colors , are associated with peace and calm. Blue, blue-green, and blue-violets represent cool colors. Cool colors in a composition tend to visually recede and look smaller. They are not easily seen from a distance.
Cool Colors Green Blue Purple
Peace
Cold
“I’m Feeling “
Pablo Picasso Spanish Artist
How do you feel when you see this painting? The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso
When you put this two colors together you bring cheerful and bright contrasting colors!
Your Art Assignment…
Draw an Eclipse and apply the cool and warm colors with oil pastels Why an eclipse?....
Moon…
Sun…
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Your “Eclipse” oil pastel drawing must have… A drawing of the moon and the sun Creativity Must show cool and warm colors with oil pastels Background
It will be graded by using the 4 C’s Evaluation Composition :25 pts Creativity :25 pts Craftsmanship :25 pts Completion :25 pts Total of : 100
. Paintings by Pablo Picasso
Cool and Warm colors
visual complements afterimage demonstration of visual complementary hues Stare at the center of the colored square for 20 seconds, then look at the black dot on the right.