Foot & Hand Color Wheel Crayon Resist

Foot & Hand Color Wheel Crayon Resist is a FUN and unique way to paint a color wheel. I have done this with upper elementary and middle school art students-they all love it!

IO: Students will identify primary, secondary & intermediate colors.  Students will review how to mix colors on the color wheel.

Delivery:

Color wheel: organized into 3 main groups:

• Primary colors (red, yellow, blue)
• Secondary colors (green, orange, purple: made by mixing 2 primary colors together),
• Intermediate colors (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green: made by mixing one primary color together with one secondary color).

Activity: Foot & Hand Color Wheel (3 30 min. class periods)

1. Trace your hands & feet 3 times in alternating patterns in a circular arrangement using a pencil. You MUST overlap the drawings.
2.  Use oil pastels or crayons to outline the hands & feet. Starting with a foot in yellow, work your way around the color wheel using only the primary & secondary colors.
3.  Paint the FEET primary colors & the HANDS secondary colors.
4.  Paint the OVERLAPPING AREAS intermediate colors. EX: Yellow & green overlap to mix yellow-green.
5.  Paint background black with India ink.

   

   

   

   
   

   

   

   
   

Materials Needed: Crayola 16 Ct Washable Watercolors, Speedball Art Products 3378 16 oz Super Black India Ink Speedball Indi, Crayola 28ct Colored Oil Pastel Sticks, paint brushes, water cups, 12×18″ white Tag board, newspaper to put on tables

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