Projects and exercise division. Clearly about learning to use a medium more effectively for beginner to advanced intermediate?
Realism
Color
- Exercise: Palette Layout
- Exercise: Combine Colors
- Project: Still life w/ pure Primaries
- Project: Still life w/ alternate Primaries
- Exercise: Tertiary mixes from complimentary pairs (3 pigment colors)
- Project: Still life using blue and orange (painters work to color schemes)
- Exercise: Color recognition (can you tell what is primary or secondary)
- Exercise: Mix and Match strips from master works (can you make the colors, then apply them to a drawing or BW photo)
Drawing
- Project: Drawing a still life on mirror tiles (benchmark)
- Exercise: Drawing a silhouette
- Project: Drawing a silhouette of buildings (skyline)
- Exercise: Measuring with pencil and thumb
- Exercise: Drawing a bottle using the box-ing up method
- Exercise: Assessing angles
- Exercise: Working with silhouettes/proportions and angles together
- Plumb lines/ Spirit levels
- Project: Painting a still life
- Gadgets and gizmos – Grid behind object, grid in front of object, view finders, angle measures
- Exercise: Drawing on Clingfilm (compare drawing to trace on window)
Negative Shapes
- Exercise: Stack of chairs
- Exercise: Potted Plant
- Exercise: Face in mirror
- Project: Still life – draw the negative spaces, use view finder to complete them
- Exercise: Checking compositions (with L shaped cut outs, are you using whole space)
- Exercise: Drawing and painting the negative space of leaves (arrange and trace)
- Project: Painting a landscape using the layer on method (thinking in terms of color washes)
3-D Form
- Exercise: Drawing the basic forms
- Project: Painting a white still life in monochrome washes
- Project: Using color tone to create form (edges are not a line)
- Project: Using brush marks to create form in landscape (lines, dots, circular, flat washes, dots of paint, curved brush marks)
Illusion of Space
- Exercise: making a tonal study (higher contrast in foreground)
- Project: Painting a monochromatic landscape
- Project: Creating the illusion of space using color alone (temperature: blue distance/warm-pure foreground, more variety in foreground… START W/COLOR STRIP)
- Exercise: Use degree of detail and definition to enhance spatial illusion
- Project: Painting a landscape that includes water
- Project: Painting a landscape demonstrating the illusion of form and space (how to pick what rule to use – i.e. color or detail or both depending on desired mood)
Beauty
Composition
- Exercise: Composing abstract shapes (Use rectilinear, curvilinear, mixed)
- Project: Producing a painting from a paper collage (use paper in 3-4 tones to create scene and then paint it)
- Exercise: Copy a master-work (you can trace it first…)
- Project: ‘Nother still life. Make tonal sketch, pick theme unity arrangement… etc)
- Project: Landscape (do tonal study, line study, detail sketch,, think about Golden Section)
- Project: Paint landscape with Artistic License (adding clouds, changing angles)
Creative Color
- Project: Using color creatively in backgrounds (picking the best foil)
- Project: Using color to create mood (or season.. or time of day)
- Project: Painting a still life using the cool family of colors
- Project: Painting a still life using the warm family of colors
- Project: Painting a landscape using the cool family of colors
- Project: Painting a landscape using the warm family of colors
- Project: Intensifying realistic Color
- Project: Reversing Intensifying realistic Color (inverting color field)
Celebrate Medium
- Exercise: Exploring the qualities of paint. () dribble big brushes, wet/dry… explore
- Examples of Experimental Techniques: Wet on wet washes, Lifting off, back runs (blotchy), Salt, spattering, wax resist, textures paper, plastic wrap presses, indents on the paper,.
- Project: Using Special Effects
- Exercise: Abstract beginnings using the imagination (start with abstract color washes, pick on and then sketch on it, then roughly finish painting)
- Project: Developing images from abstract beginnings same as before, bigger.
- Project: Producing a preconceived image from abstract beginning
- Project: Adding defination to an abstract or semi-abstract beginning (pencil, richer paint. pen etc)
Personal Vision
Change Subject
- Exercise: Build up a visual resource collection (she uses a loose leaf photo album)
- Following an interest or theme
- Project: Painting a close up view (a series of close up view studies, macro- lens)
- Project: Painting a view through a window/door (including the frame)
- Project: Working in parks, garden and other special places (take studies do paintings)
- Project: Working from your imagination (using non-visual inspiration – like illustrating a story book. Can find visual resources after find idea)
- Project: Painting a special occasion (from memory sketches, etc.)
Change Approach
- Picking a format that is suitable is fun or changes conceptions
- Project: Try an elongated format (panorama,)
- Project: try a square
- Project: try a vertical landscape
- Project: make a small painting (miniature)
- Project: make a large painting (larger than life)
- Project: Go fast
- Project: Go slow
- Project: Paint a landscape in situ
- Project: Paint landscape in studio
- Project: Make a drawing first
- Project: Experimenting with different surface
- Project: Combining water color w/ colored pencils
- Project: Rescue Operation (crayons/pastels)
- Project: Rescue Operation (crayons/acrylics)
- Project: Painting assessing changing or keeping (how to cull)
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