Watermedia: bound or diluted with water.


No painting time is wasted!
even if you don't think the work is "successful."



 
handouts & links (blog order)

May 28, week 6 (last class)

 

crumpled masa paper
no assignment!

May 21 - week 5

scumble, spritz, scribble
suggest, suggest, suggest!
with a literal touch for context.

Twinning - overpainting (glaze and opaque), stamping
Yupo [link]
not(!) paper
assignment: select a work from the VWS 2007 Show that illustrates one of these compositional schemes
schemes
May  14 - week 4

watercolor pencils/crayons

 

Our brains 'see' edges
where there are none.
Why paint them?
May 7 - week 3 - thumbnails, blocking, analyze, crop, simplify; Photo inspiration.
inspiration: Hofmann's "push-pull" [link]
April 30 - week 2 values, gradations
lines
17 x 11 line version
(reduce to print on 8.5 x 11' paper)
April 23 - week 1Assignment: Draw a circle on 'yupo' and mix/paint the primaries, secondaries and intermediates. Neatness is not a criterion. Hue, value and intensity are.

color
color mixing

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