Colour Drawing Examples From the Art Room

There are two great resources in our Art Room Library on creating Colour Images:
Watercolour in ten steps and Pastels in ten steps, by Patricia Seligman and Ian Sidaway.

Grade 10 Colour Sourcebook

http://mongoose1.wordpress.com/category/duane-keiser/

"It's now time to put your sourcebook together:
[Collection of A3 posters]

• Cover page
• Experiments with collage cloud (+ notes)
• Experiments with watercolours (+ notes)
• Experiments with Hue; Intensity; Value (+ theory)
• Experiments with EGGs (+ notes)
• Investigations of other interesting art work (+ notes)
• Experiments with acrylics and oils (+ notes)
• Any drawings for your egg painting
• Gallery visit - oil painting
• Final egg painting" Link to the rest of Mrs Moore's Colour Sourcebook post

Grade 10 Colour Poster (Due 27 May 2013)

Grade 10s so far you have completed the following activities for your poster in class,

• a colour wheel in pencil crayon or magazine images + a colour 'cloud'
• swatches of watercolours matched to magazine strips in your cloud
• chromatic greys 
• notes on how you mixed certain colours
• a graded wash

You are currently working on:

•  a watercolour painting based on Mrs Moore's photograph ( you can add details using black ink or pencil crayon) also make sure you use chromatic greys for the background
• taking your own photograph for your own composition
• Creating your own watercolour painting

Chromatic Greys

What are they?
[Define them and explain how to make them]

Make the following:
(Name them with their ‘common’ names!)

1.Light warm grey  - 2 different types

2.Cool dark grey - 2 different types

3.Mid cool grey - 2 different types

4.Light cool grey - 2 different types

http://studio2-41.blogspot.com/2012/04/colour-and-tone.html

link to an animation on the colour wheel

Grade 10 Watercolor egg project

Two exquisite egg paintings by Shirley Royal, a family friend of mine.

Posts From Mrs Moore's blog:

Egg photo

Beautiful egg 'landscape'  by Grade 10 learners. (Tayla & Taylin?) Look at some of Dali's landscapes to appreciate how 'surreal' this photo already is.

Egg project

For my Grade 10s .....

Try this composition of mine in watercolours. 

Look at your collage and watercolour 'cloud' for paint guidance.

Now try your own photoshoot.....

Use the photographic references you have taken.

Start the painting by drawing in soft, light pencil. Remove the excess graphite.

Do the under-painting with watercolour washes – work over the wholepage with the lightest value colours. Pat out some whites.

Let dry.

When dry, add darker transparent washes over some of the under-painting to add illusions of form. Hard edge = no wet paper; blurry blended edges = on dampened  paper.

Repeat as necessary………

Scan to document the painting as it grows.

Lastly,  work over the painting with pen & ink.

Grade 10 colour/ watercolour posters

create 1 or 2 A3 posters on:

• The Colourwheel
• Mixing chromatic greys
• Mixing tertiary colours
• Hue, Value and Intensity 
• various magazine and paint examples
• How to use watercolours (washes, capillary action of the water, brushes)
• include examples of painting monochrome eggs as well as
• colour eggs

link to free online watercolour tutorials (brush strokes/ methods of applying paint)

link to how to paint apples

link to powerpoint on watercolour painting and colour theory