Acrylic
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Step 1: Paint the surface flat black. Allow to dry.
Step 2: Set up a simple palette of white, primary and secondary colors. Using these colors, paint simple geometric shapes, overlapping. Allow to dry.
The beauty of this lesson is that it makes students practice acrylic brush technique and color mixing, using easy, non-intimidating processes. Sophisticated color variations and textures, difficult for beginning painters to achieve on purpose, are achieved spontaneously. After the lesson is completed, the teacher and students can discuss all the formal elements and principles of art demonstrated here.
Finished pieces.
Underpainting - Lesson 2
Paint a realistic scene from a photo or from real life in bright, Fauvist colors. This is the underpainting. Using the above method of mixing the palette (Step 3), paint over the top of the bright, Fauvist underpainting, pulling tones from areas of the palette where the natural colors have occurred in the mixing process. Important: Allow specks of the bright underpainting to show through the top layer of natural colors for extra POP!
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| Amazon man rowing |
Examples of finished work, using this process
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| Amazon girls fishing |
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| Amazon family |
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| Amazon meal |
