Lesson 1 of 100 · Colors

⭐ 30 XP🎨 Color Lab

Primary Colors Exploration

🎨Studio Brief #1

Red, yellow, and blue are the three primary colors.

🎯 Your mission

Splash colors that don't usually hang out together.

⚡ The twist

Skip the color you'd normally pick.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 Mixing red, yellow, and blue paint together makes mud — but mixing red, green, and blue light makes white.

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Artist Spotlight

🎨 Vincent van Gogh painted *Starry Night* from memory, in a hospital, at night.

Practice color identification in this art lesson: primary colors exploration.

What You'll Learn

Red, yellow, and blue are the three primary colors. They cannot be made by mixing other colors, but you can mix them to create every other color!

Techniques You'll Practice

color identificationcolor mixinglabeling

Materials Needed

Washable markersCrayonsConstruction paperGlue stick

Step-by-Step Guide

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Where you see this in real life

Every brand, every poster, every video game — color was picked on purpose.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find five shades of one color around your house.

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For the dinner table

“Why did you pick those colors? What feeling were you going for?”

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