Day 7

Day 7: Painting, Part II

Goal: Students will enlarge their sketches onto their three canvasses, and begin using their chosen three-color analogous color scheme to add details to their triptych.

Estimated time: 60 minutes

Discuss what it means to ENLARGE something. Demonstrate how to take a small thumbnail sketch and make it larger, stretching it to fill the size of the canvas.
Using their three completed and refined thumbnail sketches, students will begin to enlarge their sketches onto the three canvasses from the previous day. Students may orient their paper/canvas horizontal or vertical, but they must stick with that orientation for all three drawings. See example below.

Review the Color Wheel, Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, Analogous Colors. Tell students that adding white to a color will make the value of the color lighter (called a TINT) and black will make a value of a color darker (SHADE).
Using the same three analogous color scheme that they chose from the previous day, plus black and white, students will begin to put the first layer down. Encourage students to experiment with blending their analogous colors to get an interesting palette of colors! Helpful Hints: -Urge students to leave the small details until the very end, after their paint has dried. (i.e. trees, wavy water lines, facial features). –If students make a mistake, encourage them to move on to another part of their triptych, coming back to paint over their mistake after it has dried.
[Teacher may consider creating a whole class Google Map Tour (See Day 9) instead of having students create an individual one. If so, while students paint, pull one student at a time to start mapping their place and typing their story description- students or teacher can upload images of completed paintings into the student's place later)] .
Clean-up—emphasize proper cleaning and storage of brushes (hair up) so that they don’t get ruined. Acrylic paint is plastic based, meaning it is not water-soluble after drying. Students should take care to keep paint off clothing, carpet, and to clean brushes well.

Vocabulary

Primary Colors

Secondary Colors

Analogous Colors

Repetition

Tint/Shade

Materials

See Materials section, Days 6-8

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