Unit: Painting

The Current Unit in Art has the name Painting.
In this unit we are covering the basics of painting.
Therefore:

1. Big to Small 

2. Thin to Thick

3. Light to Dark

4. Warm to Cool

Measure and draw the big shapes first; use a big brush. Save details for later.

Paint thinly first, like watercolor. You can paint over them easier when you are more sure.

Paint light colors first, mixed with white. Dark colors over light work fine, but not the reverse.

Paint warm colors first, then cool. Yellows and oranges are not as powerful as greens and blues. Cool colors over warm work fine, but not the reverse.

Assessment for this Unit

The assessment for this unit was painting the still life that is visible below, take into mind that we see it from a lower perspective, and not from this said angle.

The 1st Lesson we got to work with this task, the class didn't know it was an assesment, which was doen on purpose so that we wouldn't go off and do it our way but would just mess around with the colors and relax a bit more.

This is a picture of my work at the end of that first lesson, i manages to get the background greenish, so I am hoping to be able to get that corrected later on. I made the mistake of thinking that green was a warm color as well. 

Don't ask me how i managed that. 

In addition I also didn't think about using the red anywhere because i thought there was no red in the image but boy was i wrong.

At the end of the second lesson my picture had progressed to what is seen above. The background slightly corrected, but keeping a abstract kind of feel, which i unfortunately later on found out was not the purpose of drawing still life.

Then comes the fact that we are not permitted to use black. NO USE OF BLACK.

So the parts that had to be black would be done in a dark purple something that gave me the reason to use red. I decided to use the red red, instead of the purple red. Which was a mistake because it would have worked better if i'd used purple red, because that one mixed easier and better with the blue.

I hope to start working on more details and shadows next time, and hopefully finish it.

We only have 1 double lesson left. 90 minutes in total.

p.s. I am screwed.

-M-