What is the "Warm-to-Cool" drawing series?

Starting off as a way to save time & energy, I created a draw along by just following the natural progression from a warm color to a cool color. You only need one drawing for your lesson; just the one like below. Then each line, by the order of how you want to instruct said line, is colored in the continuous step by step color on the color wheel: yellow, orange, red, violet, blue, green. 

It is that simple and easy to follow along, especially for us art teachers! 

How does this help?

If you are like me, you try your hardest to create your own lessons from scratch, and with this method it saves energy and time from drawing each step by step over and over again! You also kind of teach the kids something too, if you choose to hand these out; how to reach a cool color coming from a warm one! It's like two birds! A win-win! Learning and drawing!

Now you try it!

1. Draw what you want to teach (light pencil lines!)

2. Starting with a yellow marker or crayon, trace the first line you would like your students to draw. The very first step in a drawing! (Yellow is good as a starting point because the natural progression is highly evident, but also because it is a very light color, and the perfect match as the colored line for the basic shapes you would first start off with in your drawings.)

3. Then trace the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc. from warm to cool. (orange, red, violet, blue, green, respectively)

4. You choose which colors are used, add the in between colors of blue-green or red-violet if needed, or even pink! It's easy, just take a gander at the color wheel and you will have endless possibilities for colors!