Art

The colour wheel is a tool that can be used to select coordinating colour schemes. The colour wheel is made up of primary, secondary and tertiary colours. The three primary colours of red, yellow and blue are the basis of all colours and when mixed together can make a huge range of colours. The secondary colours of orange, purple and green are created when we mix two primary colours together. Tertiary colours are what we get when we mix a primary colour with a secondary colour eg: red and orange make red-orange.  

The colour wheel can help artists and designers find harmonious colour combinations based on the geometric relationships represented on the colour wheel. In this piece the students mixed all the colours on the wheel using just the three primary colours and painted each segment. They then cut out their colour wheel and that became the lion’s mane.