Color Wheels

January 21, 2010

Oooh La La!


This month I want to help my students focus on color. To help them brush up on their color knowlege, as well as painting and paint mixing skills, we each created our own 12 step color wheel. We will refer to this as we work on future projects.



I think the girls did a great job, they did a great job mixing and painting. We talked about primary, secondary, tertiary colors and how to mix each of them. There was only three tubes of paint on the table and look what came out!


Alyssa



Arika

Delaney

Kylee
Erin

I miss snow!

These snowflakes were a couple that the girls did before the break, but I hadn't posted them. I thought they deserved a little peek! I didn't get a chance to scan in one for each of the girls, but here are examples of the little project. The first flake with the gold and purples was done by Delaney, the red/pink/green by Arika.


We painted these as a quick, fun last class together before Christmas break. They are inspired by a snowflake illustration that a college illustrator friend, Shawna J. C. Tenney did a few years ago for a fundraising event called Robert's Snow.

We're Back!

January 14, 2010
Study in shape and form

Our first day of class after the holidays. I missed my girls! To get us warmed up after the long break we had, we started with a common exercise that artists practice again and again. We worked with a single light source and sketched with pencil these three-dimensional shapes. Some of the challenges include: dimensional perspective, scale, light, reflective light, shadow ... you get the idea. They did a great job.

Here are the girls' drawings.

Delaney.

Kylee.

Arika. (Check out the wood grain!)

Alyssa.