What are the three primary colours for pigment? I was always taught red, blue and yellow at school, how about you? It's so wrong though. Totally wrong. Well, 2/3 wrong, to be accurate.
The three primary colours are in fact: yellow, magenta and cyan. Which I should have known as I'm the one who buys the printer ink. But you know, we have it hammered into our heads at school that it's red, blue and yellow, and we don't really question it, do we? But in fact, red and blue cannot be primary colours, for the simple reason that you can make them with magenta, cyan and yellow. Yep, and we proved it!
The kids and I had a lot of fun learning about colours!
Here's a Moriah Elizabeth quick craft I really wanted to try out.
I used my Wilko acrylic paints for these, pastelised (not a real word) with Royal and Langnickel Titanium White, plus the silver pencil also used R&L. The Royal and Langnickel paint is so gloopy and sticky. Even when dry, the pencils just want to stick to each other. A matt varnish would help, but I don't think it's worth the time and cost.
The gold pencil was Wilko own-brand only, and though it needed more coats, it didn't have that sticky texture. I didn't bother with the extra decorations — too much trouble. I don't remember her mentioning this in her video, but it definitely helps to sand the pencils down before painting. I've been super obsessed with arts and crafts lately. Sadly, it's not the same as when I used to get my obsessive special interests 🙁 I don't think there's any way to get the old me back without the bad stuff coming back too.