This document discusses light and pigment colors. It defines light colors as those obtained through light sources like the sun or artificial lights. It explains additive color mixing using primary colors of red, green and blue. Pigment colors are obtained through art supplies like paint and use subtractive color mixing with primary colors of cyan, magenta and yellow. The document provides details on complementary, analogous, warm, cool colors and describes a color wheel and RAL color card for pigments. It discusses using values of colors and concludes with online activities related to colors.

1. COLOUR
© Federico Fernández Herrera
ENGLISH BILINGUAL 1º E.S.O.
VISUAL AND PLASTIC EDUCATION
DIDACTIC UNIT # 3

2. Light colours:
obtained with natural or artificial lights

3. Light colours: Newton's prism

4. Light colours:
Additive mixture

5. Light colours: white vs. black

6. Light colours
primary colours: R, G, B

7. Light colours:
Pixels, TVs, displays and screens

8. Light colours:
Laser animations

9. Pigment colours
Obtained with pencils, pens, paints, etc.

10. Pigment colours
Primary colours: C, M, Y
Colours at their basic essence; those colours that
cannot be created by mixing others.
cyan
magenta
yellow

11. Pigment colours
Subtractive mixtures
http://www.educacionplastica.net/ColAdi.htm

12. Pigment colours
Secondary Colours
Colours achieved by a mixture of two primaries.
violet
dark orange – red
green

13. Pigment colours
Tertiary colours
Colours achieved by a mixture of
primary and secondary hues.

14. Pigment colours
Value scheme
Adding white
little by little, you
can make a
value scheme of
each colour of
the colour wheel

15. Pigment colours
RAL card
For powder coatings over metallic surfaces

16. Pigment colours
The colour wheel

17. Pigment colours
Complementary Colours
Colours located opposite each other on a colour wheel

18. Pigment colours
Analogous colours
Analogous Colors are sets of neighboring colors on the
color wheel. The set shares a common central color.

19. Colour pigments
Warm and cool colors

20. Pigment colours
Black, grey and white – achromatic
colors

21. Cool colours Warm colours

22. The meaning of colours

23. The meaning of colours

24. Activities
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/language-games/paint-it