It's time to learn how to paint!

After learning and demonstrating specific techniques using acrylic paint, you will complete a portrait of a small child who attends a feeding center in Colombia.

SAVE EVERYTHING. Every color mixed, every painting exercise, every sketch.

• Create a color wheel: apply primary colors, mix secondary colors, and mix tertiary colors

• Mix tints, shades, and tones (5+ gradated swatches)

  1. Tints: choose one color and gradually add white

  2. Shades: choose a different color and gradually add black

  3. Tones: choose a different color and gradually add grey

• Mix complementary colors (5+ gradated swatches). 

  1. Start with red. Gradually add green until you end with brown

  2. Start with yellow. Gradually add purple until you end with brown

  3. Start with blue. Gradually add orange until you end with brown

The images below show examples of how complementary colors mute each other.

• Using only the primary colors, match skin tones of yourself, someone from a magazine, and your Memory Project portrait subject.

Create a quick abstract expressionistic painting using at least 8 of these acrylic paintings. 

This is just the tip of the iceberg! Find some more resources below:

• Art Prof: Abstract Tricks & Effects

• Acrylic Techniques for Beginners

• 9 Easy Tricks

Click here for the rubric

• No colors straight from the bottle. Demonstrate the color mixing and blending techniques from the above exercises

• Lay down a wash underpainting first

• Use a variety of acrylic techniques from the above exercises