This is a great set of videos made by artist/teacher Will Kemp that describes how to make an Impressionist-style landscape. This is something we are going to be doing in my Acrylic Painting class! Take a look!
Students are having a fun time experimenting with oil pastel effects and learning basic color theory.
For their third paintings, students created a still life picture and experimented with shadow and light effects.
Our first month painting involved creating a background with a variety of values and a foreground of birch trees. Each student chose his/her own background color to work with and the amount/placement of birch trees to add. Great job students!
In art, value refers to the many different tonalities that one color can have. To create a lighter value or tint, white is added. To create a darker value or shade, black is added. Value is especially important when creating realistic looking art because when we see an object in real life it is made of a wide range of tones and not only one flat color. Effective light and shadow effects are what give a picture its depth and objects their volume. Also, it is important to keep in mind where the light source is coming from in order to place highlights and shadows in appropriate places.
Watch this great video to learn the differences between these two types of paint. :) Through this blog, students in extracurricular classes will be able to view helpful videos and examples related to topics discussed in class.
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