--- title: Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: With paint, a few colours can make hundreds: painters usually start from three primary colours, red, yellow and blue, and mi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, war… # Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool Lesson 13 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/0/) — With paint, a few colours can make hundreds: painters usually start from three primary colours, red, yellow and blue, and mixing two gives the secondary colours, green, orange and purple. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/1/) — Each paint soaks up part of the light, so mixing too many paints together soaks up almost everything and gives mud; picture Mia stirring her whole palette and getting puddle-water brown. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/2/) — Mixing all colours of LIGHT is different and makes white. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/3/) — Laid out in a circle, the colours make a colour wheel: reds, oranges and yellows are called warm, like fire, and blues, greens and purples cool, like ice; it is about mood, not real temperature, but it really changes how a picture feels. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/4/) — Colours opposite each other on the wheel, like orange and blue, make each other shout; adding white makes a tint, adding black makes a shade, and shadows are rarely black but darker, cooler colours. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/6/) — Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/7/) — Painters usually use red, yellow and blue as primary colours: blue and yellow make green, red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/8/) — Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/9/) — Reds, oranges and yellows are called warm colours and blues, greens and purples cool colours, because of the feelings people link with them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/10/) — Red-green colour blindness is common, affecting about 1 in 12 men and about 1 in 200 women of European descent; most colour-blind people still see many colours. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/11/) — Shadows usually have colour in them, and outdoor shadows, such as on snow, often look blue or purple; the French Impressionists of the 1870s became famous for painting blue and purple shadows. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/12/) — In China red is lucky and used at New Year and weddings; in many Western countries red can mean stop or danger, and white is worn at weddings. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/13/) — Real light can be much brighter than any paint, so painters make a sky look bright by putting darker colours beside it; this difference is called contrast. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/14/) — Complementary colours are opposite each other on the colour wheel, like orange and blue or red and green; side by side they make each other look stronger. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/15/) — Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint; adding black makes a darker shade, and many painters darken with dark blue or brown instead so colours stay rich. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/16/) — For centuries purple dye was made from sea snails and was extremely expensive, so it became a sign of emperors; cheap purple dyes were invented only in the 1850s. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/17/) — Ultramarine blue, made from a stone, once cost more than gold. - ← previous: [Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/) - next →: [Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)