Art education is the subject content of cultivating students' aesthetic feeling and artistry, and color teaching is the most important part of art teaching. Each color matching will achieve different effects, so teachers should pay special attention to color teaching. Color teaching can make art works more attractive, and can give full play to the creativity of students, and can better express their emotional thoughts. This paper briefly analyzes the current situation of color teaching in art education, and makes a detailed analysis of the existing problems, and then puts forward effective countermeasures to improve color teaching on this basis, so as to further promote the art color teaching to achieve better teaching effect.