Art and painting · lesson 4 of 24 · free

Warm and cool colours — Art and painting for kids

Colours can feel warm or cool. Red, orange and yellow are warm colours — they remind us of fire and sunshine and seem to jump forward. Blue, green and purple are cool colours — they feel like water, ice and shade and seem to sink back.

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Fire or ice? — “warm colours feel like fire and sun; cool colours feel like water and ice”

  1. Warm: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow.
  2. Cool: blue, blue-green, green, blue-purple, purple.
  3. Hot or fiery subjects (campfire, sunset, lava) → warm colours; cold, wet or shady subjects (sea, glacier, rainy night) → cool colours.

Use it for: Painting sunsets, seas and seasons, and making a picture feel hot or cold.

Worked example: 🖌️ Would you paint a campfire mostly in warm colours or cool colours? → warm colours

  1. A campfire is hot and full of flames.
  2. Fire is painted with red, orange and yellow, so a campfire is usually painted in warm colours.

Check: Flames are red, orange and yellow — all warm colours ✓

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