Making Marks and Telling Stories · Visual Arts

Color and Mood

Exploring how mixing primary colors creates new possibilities and how colors influence our feelings.

Key Questions

  1. 1What choices did the artist make when picking these colors?
  2. 2How does the color blue make you feel and why?
  3. 3What happens to a painting when we add a tiny bit of black?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9AVAFE01AC9AVAFR01
Year: Foundation
Subject: The Arts
Unit: Making Marks and Telling Stories
Period: Visual Arts

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