Class 4 · Art and Craft
Colours and colouring
📘 Chapter notes
The key ideas of this chapter, answered through the six guiding questions. Read them with your textbook.
1What am I looking at?
Answer: Using colours to make pictures bright.
2What are its main parts or ideas?
Answer: Primary colours (red, yellow, blue), secondary colours (orange, green, purple), warm and cool colours.
3How does it work?
Answer: Mix two primary colours to get a secondary colour; colour in one direction neatly.
4Why is it important?
Answer: Colours express feelings and make art lively.
5What happens if something changes?
Answer: Adding white makes a colour lighter (tint); black makes it darker (shade).
6What should I remember for the exam?
Answer: Colour mixing and neat colouring.
📗 Full lesson: Drawing, colour and shape
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🖼️ 2D concept map
Landscape builder where moving objects back makes them smaller and lighter
ℹ️ Screen colours approximate.
🎯 Learning outcomes
- Draw from observation using lines, shapes and textures
- Use warm and cool colours, tints and shades
- Show near and far in simple landscapes (overlapping and size)
Before you start: Basic drawing and colour mixing.
📖 Explanation
Observation drawing means looking carefully at objects: their outline, proportions and details. Texture shows how things feel: rough bark, smooth glass, furry cats, using dots, lines and patterns.
Warm colours (red, orange, yellow) feel bright and energetic; cool colours (blue, green, purple) feel calm. Adding white makes a tint (lighter); adding black makes a shade (darker).
To show depth: things far away look smaller and higher on the page, nearer things overlap farther ones and have more detail.
A student draws Dal Lake with a big shikara in front and small mountains far behind, using cool blues and greens.
✗ Shading means pressing hard with a pencil everywhere
✓ Shading builds gradually from light to dark following where light falls.
🧪 Try this activity
Observe a fruit or a steel tumbler under a lamp and draw it with light and dark shading.
✍️ Question bank with answers
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Multiple choice 1 mark · easy
Which is a warm colour?
Answer
C. orange
Orange is warm.
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Multiple choice 1 mark · easy
Adding white to a colour makes a
Answer
A. tint
White lightens.
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Multiple choice 1 mark · easy
In a landscape, mountains far away are drawn
Answer
B. smaller
Distance makes objects look small.
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Very short answer 1 mark · easy
Name a cool colour.
Answer
blue, green or purple
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Very short answer 1 mark · easy
How do you show texture in a pencil drawing?
Answer
using dots, lines and patterns
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Short answer 2 marks · medium
How can you show that one tree is in front of another?
Marking points
- Overlap: the front tree covers part of the back one
- The front tree is bigger and more detailed
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Long answer 4 marks · hard
Draw a village landscape with near, middle and far parts, and explain how you showed depth.
Marking points
- Foreground, middle ground and background
- Size, overlap and detail used
- Colour choices explained
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Application 2 marks · medium
Your painting of a night scene looks too bright. What can you change?
Answer
- Use cool and darker shades
- Reduce warm colours
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Diagram / label 2 marks · medium
Draw a tint–shade scale for blue with five steps.
Answer
From light tint to dark shade
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