Both of these painted in one class period, during about a 30 minute time limit, with student grade acrylics on tagboard...
Both efforts were with complementary colors...the first blue and orange, the second yellow-orange and blue-violet...plus white and black. The second work used a day time mountain lake reference...the idea was for students to imbue a mood using a color harmony. Beginning with yellow-orange slowly turning violet and dark values as everything neared the viewer's eye. It is by design not so realistic...but as a step by step to teach concepts. Both demos had the students looking at various references, and putting together their own narrative respective to asymmetry and viewpoint perspective. I can say that I never heard this class work so intently and focused as I have this last day on their painting unit...
3 comments:
Nice lesson! I wish I had been fortunate enough to have an art teacher like you when I was in school. Those kids don't know how lucky they are!
I so agree!!! While I did love my high school art classes, and relized then what art ment to me, we did not have such a great class room experience as this- - - especially with color and mood!!! You must be a great inspired teacher and those kids are more than lucky!
Very nice lesson and work.
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