One day, Mrs. Zurfluh read us the book “Little Blue and Little Yellow” by Leo Lionni. After the story, we talked about what we noticed:
“If you hug each other, you change color.”
“So if two people hug each other, you change color?”
“No, people don’t change color.”
“If two colors hug each other, they change to a new color.”
“You mix two colors and you get a new color.”
We decided to try.
Here is what we noticed…
Julia: “I noticed that when I mix paint the colors change. I can make new colors when I mix paint.”
Seok: “I like to mix paint! Yellow and blue makes green. Green and yellow makes blue.”
Safir: “I noticed that when I mix paint the colors change.”
Alexandra: “I noticed that when you mix colors sometimes the darker color can still be seen and the lighter color cannot be seen. Mixing colors makes new colors.”
Alex: “I can explore different colors by mixing paints. White and red makes pink, white and black makes grey so adding white makes colors lighter. You can make colors that don’t even have names. All colors mixed together make a splendid color!!!”
Amie: “When I folded the paper with my colors mixed, the pattern was copied. When I added brown to green, green got darker, adding brown to orange made the brown lighter. I created a new color by mixing yellow and blue – green!”
Emmi: “Orange and white make a pinky orange color. Mixing colors makes things more beautiful. If I mix 2 colors I end up with 3 colors, the 2 colors that I mixed and a new color!”
Mali: “I mixed pink and red and it turned into pink. If I add white the color is lighter. I used yellow and green and made a whole new color.”
Altai: “I noticed that when I mixed orange with black because I used lots of black the orange became black. If I add black to any color that color gets dark.’
Gabi: “I had fun mixing colors. Two colors together make a new color like red and yellow makes orange.”
Ada: “Yellow and blue makes green. I think that mixing colors is fun and red and white can make my favorite color – pink! Mixing orange and black makes a dark color.”
Tim: “I mixed red and yellow and it made orange – it looks like fire! Then I mixed blue and black and made very dark blue. ”
Soeun: “I can make different colors when I mix colors together. I make new colors. I like mixing colors.”
Tomasz: “I like painting and I learned today that if I mix white and red I get pink. White and purple makes light purple. White makes dark colors lighter.”
Nick: “I mixed black, red, brown and blue. I can only mix colors with paint and not with color pencils.”
After our experiment, we shared ideas on how to display our artworks.
We put them together to create a class collage. This is one of the ways that KZE artists express ourselves.