Int Painting

858 PAINTING

Full year • 1 credit 

Grades 10, 11, 12 • Elective • Fee 

Prerequisite: C or higher in Foundations in Two Dimensional Design.

This course is designed to develop drawing and painting skills introduced in Foundations in Two Dimensional Design. The importance of good design, observational drawing, perspective, contrast, and color theory will be stressed. Media such as pencil, charcoal, pen, watercolor, acrylic, digital, and oil paints will be used. Students interested in a career in art are encouraged to take this class early on in their high school course work to learn skills necessary in many other art classes.

A sketchbook is required.

HW SCHEDULE: Assigned every Monday, due every Thursday

Every week, students will turn in work representing one hour of effort. This can be a combination of collected images, text, and their own work. Most home work will be assigned, but some weeks students will be allowed their own choice of subject matter. 

INTERMEDIATE PAINTING EXPLORATION

1.1 WATERCOLOR ABSTRACTION

2.1 ACRYLIC PORTRAITS

3.1 OILS STILL LIFE AND MIXED MEDIA

4.1 DIGITAL PAINTING

VIDEO TUTORIALS

1. Digital Painting for Noobs 1: Getting started and painting in your base layers.

2. Digital Painting for Noobs 2: Adding in base shadows and highlights.

MAKING AND MANIPULATING CUSTOM BRUSHES IN PHOTOSHOP

The first 4 minutes of this show you how to make your own brushes. At 4 min, it shows you how to manipulate brushes in CS6.

Steps:

1. Open blank document in PS

2. Create 2 new layers. One for the shape, one for it's cast shadow.

3. Holding shift, create a sphere on the top layer.

4. Use the paintbucket to fill the sphere with a medium gray.

5. Setting your brushes opacity between 15%-40%, paint in the blacks and whites on the sphere with a rough brush. (Last one in the dry media set)

6. Using as large a brush as possible, paint in the cast shadows on the layer below the sphere.

Abstraction:

http://www.artinstructionblog.com/acrylic-painting-demonstration-by-faith-puleston