Mixing colours in one lesson with the Colour Grip pencils – there is no way faster!
In art lessons in many year groups, mixing colours is a specific learning goal in the field of colour theory. Mixing with wet colours usually takes a lot of time because the materials and equipment have to be prepared, then cleaned and tidied up again.
With the Colour Grip colour pencils yellow, red and blue, you can teach pupils the laws of colour mixing practically within just one lesson – in other words 45 minutes. It's totally uncomplicated and saves a lot of time. Pupils draw the primary colour pairs yellow – red, red – blue as well as blue – yellow with the Colour Grip colour pencils on their drawing pad. At first the paper remains white between the respective colour pairs. The two colours are then merged with a wet brush – the mixed colours/secondary colours orange, green and violet are created in the white spaces in between.
The Colour Grip colour pencils are shown to their best advantage on rough paper which has not been oversized; watercolour paper is particularly suitable for this.
A more advanced exercise: use Colour Grip colour pencils to draw overlapping squares, circles and triangles in different colours. When colouring the individual areas, new colour mixtures are created. The children discover and learn the laws of colour theory through play: for example, they learn about tertiary colours which are the result of mixing a secondary colour with a prime colour etc.
TIP: The Colour Grip colour pencils can be bought individually which means you can actually buy just prime colours for use in the classroom.
Colour Grip colour pencils in art / woodwork/metalwork
Use Grip colour pencils to realise creative design ideas without limiting pupils to a drawing pad or watercolour pad. Brightly coloured results can also be achieved on many materials, such as wooden clothes pegs, stone and terracotta. Creative ideas outside the goals of the curriculum can be achieved quickly without great expense – something that is fun whilst at the same time being kind to your purse.
All you have to remember is that the artwork is not waterproof because the Colour Grip leads of both the thin standard format and the thick jumbo format are water soluble. The creative works of art can be protected from water by simply moistening the surfaces with some baby oil.
Effective mixing as the basis for all painting techniques
Once the pupils have learned the basic concept of mixing colours with water soluble Colour Grip colour pencils, they can easily transfer their knowledge to wet paints and paint boxes. This saves time and the children intuitively and immediately link colour theory.
The Connector paint box – recommended by teachers
Paints are an integral part of art lessons at primary school and can be used in a cross-curricular manner in social studies, religion and language lessons. The Connector paint box is the perfect tool for painting areas of colour, learning the theory of colours as well as for realising many other learning goals.“Grasping” colour modules
At last, there is a paint box that is didactically and methodically oriented to today's learning standards in classrooms and offers more than you can see at first glance. The Connector paint pans can be taken out of the paint box as individual colour modules and then combined with each other in a variety of ways: pupils can put certain colour combinations together (e.g. to draw a specific theme such as a desert city) or connect the three primary colours (cyan, magenta and yellow), manual dexterity is improved in a playful way and the secondary colours green, orange and violet are mixed from the primary colours. Putting the paint pans together and an understanding of colours are conveyed by the time-saving combination of colours and can be directed specifically towards topics to be learned.
More space and time for painting instead of cleaning and tidying
Pupils have more space for large-format work because they only need to take out and put together the pans they need for the particular teaching topic. The other colours remain in the Connector paint box stored either in the pupils’ trays or under their desks.
Separate paint box lid with didactic overview
The separate lid optimises the workplace and subsequent cleaning. At the end of the lesson, pupils only have to clean the lid at the washbasin, thus saving the unused paint that remains in the box. The amount of time spent cleaning at the washbasin is shortened, saving time in the classroom.
The lid of the Connector paint box can do more than you might expect. Some people think it is transparent to show off the colours inside. But there is a lot more to it than that. It also serves as a mixing palette, which you need for mixing colours. The colours are mixed in the five white, round mixing fields. The transparent parts of the lid allow the mixed colours to be perfectly matched with the motif. Mixing results vary, especially when remixing, and pupils are then disappointed. With a considered colour check in the transparent lid, pupils can learn to match and adjust a particular colour in terms of depth and degree of mixing to suit their requirements and only then apply it to the paper. Successful remixing, mixing and "correct" colour mixes make painting and designing much more fun!
Practical: space for your brush on the foldable CLIC&GO water cup
The robust cup is small and flat, can be stored easily and saves space. The wavy edge is a good place to park a brush. There is no more danger of brushes rolling off the desk or being forgotten about in the water, damaging the material. The large base and the anti-slip plastic ensure the cup holds its ground. The colour marking in the cup shows how much water should be used. It is better to change water regularly than to mask the colours with dirty water in an overfilled cup.
Tip: the Clic&Go cup can also be used folded up: on the one hand, you have the colour-coded inner area for very small children who are still practising. On the other hand, professionals with fine brushes can also use the folded cup for watercolour painting: clean water is taken up in the inner area, while the coloured, dirty water flows into the outer space when brushing off at the edge of the wave. This means there is always clean water inside for bright colour results.
