Sunday, September 25, 2011

AP Studio Art Breadth 6 Painting



Joseph Raffael Turning Point

AP Studio Art Breadth 6
DUE MONDAY 10-10-11
Landscape Painting
Objectives:
• To learn about types of painting and painting styles in the landscape theme.
• To use knowledge of color theory.

Blog (no reading) find 3 artists that have done landscapes that you admire, post a picture of their work, with their names and title’s of the pieces and blog about what you like about the pieces.
Sketchbook:
1. Make up 10 different thumbnails working on composition.
2. Draw the composition larger several times, alter the photograph
Vocabulary:
Color: All colors can be defined as three things: hue, saturation and value.
Hue: The name of a color. Paint examples: Cadmium red, Lemon yellow….
Saturation: a color’s strength or intensity, this can be high or low.
Value: this is the color’s lightness or darkness.
Landscape: a painting of a scene in nature.
Under painting: applying thin (lots of water added) layers of paint to start your drawing.

Assignment:
1. Research a landscape and find an image, DO NOT COPY THE IMAGE DIRECTLY!
2. Complete sketches in your sketchbook to work out your composition. Think about what to include and what to eliminate, use a viewfinder.
3. Begin Under painting in warm or cool colors
4. Begin to layer color.
5. Complete and varnish your picture.
6. Critique and evaluation

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