Dec 20th

Learning to paint "happy little trees" in our landscapes

Dec 18th & 19th

Practice painting in sketchbook

Dec 17th

Taking a look at Franz Marc's paintings and continuing with our own.

Dec 13th & 14th

Beginning to paint our expressive landscape.

Dec 11th & 12th

Applying a light grid to our final paper.

Dec 10th

Brief introduction to Expressionism and overview of next landscape project.

Dec 6th & 7th

Inspirational fruit and vegetable painter- who created portraits with them!

 Amazing work being turned in!

Dec 4th & 5th

Peer critiquing our fruit and then putting the final touches on your painting!

Dec 3rd

Our goal is to have our paintings 3/4th's of the way complete by tomorrow's peer critique

Nov 29th & 30th

Painting the contour of our fruit of vegetable

Nov 27th & 28th

Beginning to paint our realistic fruit or vegetable

Nov. 26

Welcome back! Let's transfer those drawings onto the final paper

Nov 15th & 16th

Beginning to sketch out our fruit/vegetable with highlights and shadows

Nov 13th

Welcome back, let's put the final touches on our sphere assignment, for those who are finished, you will begin sketching fruit!

Nov 8th & 9th

Starting our expressionism sphere

Nov 6th & 7th

Starting our monochromatic hard edge sphere

Nov 5th

Finishing touches to our pointillism sphere

Nov 1st & 2nd

Continuing with our pointillism sphere

Oct 30th & 31st

Finishing and critiquing our blended spheres, and then beginning to work on our dabbed/pointillism sphere.

Oct 29th

Continuing with our blended sphere

Oct 25th & 26th

Starting our blending!

Oct 23rd & 24th

Cakes and cupcakes, our last pop art day

I love what I am seeing in the turn in drawer!
 

Oct 22nd

Last day to work on the project at hand

Oct 18th & 19th

Taking a look at sociopolitical pop art inspired paintings

Oct 16th & 17

Let's take a look at an artist who created pop art soft sculptures

Oct 15th

Keith Harring and re-capping the project at hand

Oct 8th

Re-capping the anatomy of a brush and requirements for our Romero Britto inspired painting!

Oct 4th & 5th

Today we will break down the parts of a brush and demonstrate our knowledge of correctly painting with the brush of our choice.

Oct 1st

Today we will look at Romero Britto's work and begin drawing simplified sketches!

Sept 27th & 28th

Wrapping up our color wheels and beginning our Romero Britto Worksheet

Sept 25 & 26th

Continuing with our color wheels and learning a bit about pop art

Sept 24th

Continuing with our color wheel

Sept 20th & 21st

Today we will create a color wheel and begin mixing colors!

Sep 18th & 19th

Putting the final touches on our Mondrian inspired watercolors

Sept 17th

Mondrian inspired so many people with his art...

Sept 13th &14th

Today we will begin layering light to dark washes and experimenting with textures on our final paper.

Sept 11th & 12th

Finishing up our experiments with watercolor and then beginning our first assignment

Sept 10th

Staple paper to our sketchbooks and start a unit on watercolor!

Sept 6th & 7th

Let's finish our sketchbooks and if there is time we will take a few notes on watercolor.

Sept 5th

Welcome to Painting 1!