Warm & Cool Color Lesson for Kids

Video Transcript

"Alright, we're going to use our color wheel to learn some things about color now. And when we notice the color wheel we see that half of it is bright or light, we call it the warm colors. And half of it is a little bit darker, we call those the cool colors. And, we'll see how this is in nature and how artists use this knowledge too. You know who invented the color wheel, Mr. Isaac Newton, this was a long time ago but if you learn about gravity, and the felling rod, the apple fall, and figured out how gravity works. This was in the 1600's, late 1600's, Sir Isaac Newton was very interested in how light comes into our eyes and how we see color, and how artists use this. And that's why he organized colors this way, because artists would notice in nature that it came naturally. I cut out some photographs of the warm colors. You can see how that works out, kind of nice and warm. When the sun is shining and we've got the yellows and the oranges. Now, let's look at the difference with the cool colors as they come in nature. Gives you a cold feeling, a lot of the blues and the greens. Alright, now let's see how some artists use this. This is a beautiful painting by Claude Monet of water lilies, all the blues and the greens and it gives you that nice cool restful feeling. We think of those as earth colors too. Quite the opposite. This artist is using all warms and oranges, the warms, oranges, pinks, yellows that give us a very warm kind of like we're out on the dessert. And that's how artists use the knowledge that they have on their color wheel and apply it to painting."