This project was full of color mixing! Students learned that in art, value is the lightness or darkness of a color. Each student choose a hue, a pure color to begin a ice cream value scale. They added black to the hue to make shades, and white to make tints. These new values were painted in the "scoops" of ice cream.
Next, students learned about complimentary colors. They are across from each other on the color wheel. Complimentary colors look great next to each other, but when mixed make a neutral color. Students mixed complimentary colors to make brown for the ice cream cone. They also used the color that complimented their ice cream's hue to create a patterned background paper.
Students had great fun making these ice cream cones and learned a ton about color theory in the process!
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