Observation Color Painting - Teen Class

Once the students finished the observation value paintings, we moved on to adding color. They used a limited palette of cad red light, yellow ochre, black and white. Yes, only these few colors. They had a good lesson in color mixing with lovely results!

Pointillism Flamingos, ages 7-12

We talked about pointillism and looked at famous examples by Seurat. Then we drew flamingos and divided the shapes for each of the different colors. These are just a very few examples of the many that were done. Acrylic paint on 11x14 inch stretched canvas

April Showers bring May Flowers, Friday Art Class ages 8-12

My Friday classes are quite fun. We have pizza, do an art project, share some jokes and riddles... It is a great way to finish the week. This last friday I gave the students a choice of what type of flower painting they would like to do. All of them are so nice. Welcome Spring!

Friday Pet Portrait and Pizza Class- age 8-11

Friday classes are added as I have time to add. The students have a great time painting, eating pizza, sharing riddles and making friends. Below is an example of the work from our pet portrait class.

Pumpkin Time - ages 7 - teens

This was a fun project we did in the student, teen and friday classes. Such a bright project to do as the days are getting shorter.  Here are just a few of the examples showing nice texture and color transitions. Acrylic on 11x14 inch wrapped canvas.

Pumpkin Lessons- Teen Advanced

This is the advanced teen final pumpkin paintings using only red, yellow ochre, black and white acrylic paint on 10x14 canvas board. Yes, only 4 colors! It is a great lesson in really looking at values and color mixing without the distraction of many other colors. Please read below to see how they got to this level.

my 4 x 5 inch example

They started with a simple pencil drawing 

and then did 2 small 5x7 inch value paintings.

They looked at the light bouncing back from the white table cloth, shadows and light direction...

There is a wonderful difference between the first and second painting.

The subject is more familiar so you can notice more of the light in the second painting.

The brushwork is also more confident.

Nice job!

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