Warm and cool colour temperature
Creative Arts and Sports · Grade 7 · about 40 minutes
Split the colour wheel into warm (red, orange, yellow) and cool (green, blue, violet) and mix poster-colour secondaries.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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