Back to: Creative Arts Primary 3
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Colours is the pigment that reflects on any object when light touches the object. It is also the characteristics of human visual perception described through colour categories.
Types of colours.
- Primary Colours: These are natural colours that can be gotten from a substance like earth, trees, leaves. Examples are Red, Blue and Yellow.
- Secondary Colours: These are colours gotten by the mixture of two primary colours in equal proportion.
Examples: Red + Yellow = Orange
Red + Blue = Purple
Yellow + Blue = Green
- Tertiary colours: these are colours an artist gets when he mixed secondary colours in equal proportion.
Examples: Orange + Green = Citron
Orange + Purple = Russet
Purple + Green = Olive
SOURCES OF COLOUR
- Red:- It can be gotten from wood of cam-wood.
- Yellow:- It is gotten from not of brimstone.
- Green:- it is gotten from young leaf of basil.
- Black:- It is gotten from grinded snail shall.
USES OF COLOURS
- It is used to beautify our environment
- It is a means of communication
- It is used to make our drawing look real
- It is used for identification
- It adds value to our drawing
Evaluation: Explain primary and secondary colour.
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