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ASSIGNMENT
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1. Color Detail 1: Colored
line and texture. 3 Days.
General Assignment Idea:
Interpret picture(s) or invent picture(s) which is rich in detail.
Do as many pictures as time allows in 3 days. No less than one
a day!
Detail can be "descriptive"
describing certain kinds of detail,
Detail can also be patterned,
stylized lines or textures,
Detail is secondary breakup.
(inside of the main forms of the picture.)
Select as many bright colors
as you can.
HINT - Do not be limited
by what you imagine are the normal ‘realistic’ color choices.
• Skills: Using a fine pointed brush, using
detail with good control bright colors, vivid hues of color.
• Media and Materials: Use tempera paint which
is bright, colorful and opaque. Small size brushes.
• Ideas and Subject selection - make
it about something. Describe something real that you can see. Or paint
something whose details you are very familiar with. Use many
bright lively colors as colored line. Emphasize line and textures.
You may suggest textures by using small marks, dots, lines, small
circles, etc. Do not attempt to blend colors -- to make
colors realistic -- or to fill in solid areas. Design: Include more
than one form in your visual content (Object with setting) Do not
try to fill a large picture
space with tiny detail (Too much labor and time would be required.)
The picture size will probably work best at 9x12
• Time: One
or more can be done easily in one day. But you work with this
method for 3 days. <If you finish early repeat the technique
again with variation for extra credit, trying to be more creative
, often the best work comes with more practice and more freedom to
express "creative play.">
• Artists: See Van Gogh, Matisse, Vlaminch,
Fauvism
Color
Assignment 2, Still life: 4 Days
General Assignment Idea:
Create a still life setup. Interpret the still life display using
abstraction methods You will observe and then reinterpret the forms
in this design.
Different kinds of abstraction:
Use any of the following
methods of abstraction: Overlapping, transparency, Lines of symmetry,
or faceting. You will be given samples or have explanation
of these methods.
• Medium: Blended tempera or poster color.
• Skills: Composing objects in space;
and drawing skills - esign skill using interesting breakup of the
picture space- Mixing color blends or tones; Using a palette. - Applying
color with control.
• Hints: Painting in areas of solid or graded
color tones - Color harmony should be
planned, consider a dominant color and color contrasts.
• Design: Picture size: 18x24 with border
or 16x20 (trimmed size)
• Time: 4 days Artists:
Picasso, Braque, Gris, Feininger
Color
assignment 3. Still life, Realistic: 6 days
General Assignment Idea:
Organize a still life display which has good variety in shape, color,
size and textures.
• Skills: Use the same skills as described
above, But you will be achieving true life outline and tone and color.
• Materials or Media: Work with acrylic paint
on canvasette Size: 18x24 with added border of 1.5 inches
Color
assignment 4. Life Drawing (modeled human or other animal
) Modeled means showing 3d-ness, as opposed to flatness.
General Assignment Idea:
Use light and shadow illuminate a human forms or some other kind of
life form, draw them as large as possible inside the picture space.
Design approach: emphasize
the masses of the body and the light and shadow illuminating the body.
Give the form a 3d environment though it may be simple.
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Size: 18x24 with border.
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Time: 6 days to do one painting.
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Media: limited palette, paint media, brushes
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Artists: Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Picasso (1921), Henry Moore,
Botero
Color
assignment 5. Serendipitous Water Color Wash Techniques: Use tempera
or water color washes.
(Discovering visual effects
in fluid washes)
General Assignment
Idea: Discover visual qualities. What makes the accidental flow and
blend of colors beautiful? They are rich in purely visual effects; color,
line, texture, shape are of great variety and which are rich and
infinitely variable. Use transparent washes and wet in wet affects
which express fluidity and spontaneity with the medium. Do Not overwork
any of the color areas. The accidental of serendipity quality of wet
in wet is such that you can not
always predict it try to
allow for these effects to happen on their own and do not rework
that which happens in a spontaneous fresh way.
This kind of art begins as
play but must eventually be transformed and interpreted as some kind
of subject or story using the wonderful visual results.
• Medium: Water Color transparency happens with
adding water to the paint until it is
mostly water. Though tempera or poster color is considered an
opaque and not
transparent medium it gives nice effects when very fluid. it is not
quite as good for washes as water color tubes or water color cakes.
We will do the art by accident
approach with a thinned out tempera dropped and dripped and folded and
tipped on a wetted piece of paper. Once dried the effects can be studied
for possible
imaginative interpretation Subject matter: the most challenging upon
your imagination thus far. Do add line and some additional color tone
to develop the vision that you discover within your accidental universe.
Make an effort to preserve the visual effects that have been made by
accident!!!!
• Selection: Select a subject that you are inspired
to use after doing a little experimenting with serendipity.
• HINT: The blends are very effective on atmosphere,
foliage, storms, seas, fur, flowers, etc. But you choose the one which
is out of your favorites.
• Size 16x20 to 18x24 with border margin.
• Time: figure One day for the wet in wet sketches
and, 1follow-up day to clarify and complete with detail touch ups. Do
no less than two of these in 1 week's time.
Color
Design 6: Water color quick figure “wash” sketches
with pen detail.
General Assignment
Idea: Capture the essential pose and the proportions of the the human
figure with “visual shorthand.” Work with a light wash
from watercolor or tempera as in 5 above, you are to complete gesture
drawing silhouettes of human figures in natural action poses:
• HINT: Do not use a heavy application of
paint. Do not "cross out any less than perfect sketch. Try to
improve your skills while you work with a brush and wash method.
• Figure proportions: Not too
many people have a good sense of figure proportion so it is advisable
that you review figure drawing proportion (1 to 7) with a guide sheet
from your teacher. Some of these may be from pictures but be sure
that the majority or from real life models. Use the head length
as the guide to proportion.
• Design: Use a montage or multi image per
page approach. They should have the appearance of practice or "studies"
or practice works but they should still be done
sensitively and caringly.
Please consider size variation and position of the images
• Page size: 9x12 or 12x16 inch Drawing paper.
• Time: You will work with wash and pen for
3 days or until you have a minimum of six pages of studies
Painting
7: Surrealism (Fantasy Images)
General Assignment
Idea: Organize objects which can represent personal symbols, or juxtapositions
of forms to
suggest fantasy or psychological
content. Ask for the fantasy painting
guide sheet.
• HINT: To understand the concept of “irrational,”
Look up Magritte, Dali, Arp,
Kandinsky or "Surrealism". To underastand the concept of pure visual
texture look
up, Kandinsky. Do some concept sketches of your idea before
you proceed. Search
and examine internet web pages dealing with 3d ray-tracing and phantasy
environments.
• Medium: Acrylic on canvas tablet
• Size: 16x 20
• Time: No more than 6 class days.
Assignment
8 : Pattern and Texture-producing art techniques:
General Assignment
Idea: The painting knife which can be used either with degree of realism
or used in a semi-abstract sense. The effects of paint applied by
a blade cause an
interesting effect of texture
while blending or painting over a previous paint color layer.
Experiment; this
is a new techniqe so experiment to discover the textures which come
from using a palette knife.(Or a stiff piece of card board to apply
paint.)
Dry brush is another
effect: As the paint runs out on the knife or brush it produces
a soft texture, the dry brush look.
• Subject matter: Select subject matter that
is compatible to the method don't try anything too realistic.
painting technique. Do not neglect content and a sense of subject
in an environment.
• Size: It is probably advisable to stay in
the 12 to 14 inch size range for the page or canvas sheet.
• Time: No more than 4 class days.
Assignment
9 : Realism, painting a still life in normal colors and
light.
General Assignment Idea:
construct an attractive setting of objects in a group. Select the
objects to produce size
and color contrasts as well as good line movement to affect a good
composition. Blend colors
on palette to match those of your set up.
Subject matter:
Select subject matter that is compatible or suggested by the knife
painting
technique. Do not neglect
primary content and a sense of subject in an environment.
• Size: 12 x 16 inch minimum size or larger.
Choose canvas or heavy paper sheet.
• Time: No more than 5 class days.
Color
Design 10 Pastel. Torn paper frisket / stencil method.
Semi-abstract.
General Assignment Idea:
A stencil allows color
to go inside a shape to leave that area filled with color or tone.
A frisket allows color to trace outside the edge of the torn or cut
pattern. Using a direct
approach or cotton balls
apply color blends over the top of torn or cut paper edges onto a
plain sheet of paper. A “Frisket” uses the edge of a guide
form and a stencil uses the inside or cut- out areas.
• Selection: Select a subject which is simple but
interesting. Think semi abstractly on
stencil images with very simple, easy shapes. Friskets make
beautiful patterns and
can be torn out or cut with as much complexity as you feel comfortable
with.
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