Investigate Part I
Section 1:
- NonStretched: "Canvas not stretched nor secure to a wooden frame"
-Primed: "Canvas has had a primer applied to it, which prepares the surface for being painted on."
-Unprimed: "The raw material-usually cotton. Though you can paint on the canvas unprimed, it is usually better to prime it so that the paint can adhere to the canvas better."
Section 2:
-Sponge: "A sponge is a tool or cleaning aid consisting of porous material. Sponges are usually used for cleaning impervious surfaces. They are especially good at absorbing water and water-based solutions."
-Paint brush: "Paintbrushes are used to apply ink or paint. These brushes are usually made by clamping the bristles to a handle with a ferrule."
-Alla Prima: I am planning to use this technique in order to apply wet paint to the leafs of my tree.
-Texture: I am planning to use this technique in order to create a rough texture in the bark of my tree.
Section 3:
What is.....
Section 4:
Scumbling Technique Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWn5A8xRyE
Section 3:
Color Scheme Sample:
Section 1:
- Acrylic Paint and its properties: "Acrylic paint is fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted (with water) or modified with acrylic gels, media, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor or an oil painting, or have its own unique characteristics not attainable with other media."
- Canvas: "Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other items for which sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across a wooden frame. It is also used in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases and shoes."
- NonStretched: "Canvas not stretched nor secure to a wooden frame"
-Primed: "Canvas has had a primer applied to it, which prepares the surface for being painted on."
-Unprimed: "The raw material-usually cotton. Though you can paint on the canvas unprimed, it is usually better to prime it so that the paint can adhere to the canvas better."
- Gesso: "Gesso is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these. It is used in artwork as a preparation for any number of substrates such as wood panels, canvas and sculpture as a base for paint and other materials that are applied over it."
Section 2:
- Painting tools:
-Sponge: "A sponge is a tool or cleaning aid consisting of porous material. Sponges are usually used for cleaning impervious surfaces. They are especially good at absorbing water and water-based solutions."
-Paint brush: "Paintbrushes are used to apply ink or paint. These brushes are usually made by clamping the bristles to a handle with a ferrule."
- Painting techniques:
-Alla Prima: I am planning to use this technique in order to apply wet paint to the leafs of my tree.
-Texture: I am planning to use this technique in order to create a rough texture in the bark of my tree.
- Under-painting: "Initial layer of paint applied to a ground, which serves as a base for subsequent layers of paint. Underpaintings are often monochromatic and help to define colour values for later painting."
- Tints and Shades: "A tint is the mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, and a shade is the mixture of a color with black, which reduces lightness. A tone is produced either by mixing with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mixing a color with any neutral color, including black and white, reduces the chroma, or colorfulness, while the hue remains unchanged."
- Complimentary Colors: "Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined in the right proportions, produce a neutral color; either white, grey, or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast and reinforce each other."
- Picking a color scheme: "In color theory, a color scheme is the choice of colors used in design for a range of media. For example, the use of a whitebackground with black text is an example of a basic and commonly default color scheme in web design. Color schemes are used to create style and appeal." The color scheme that will work for me is the Analogus color scheme since i need to work with red and violet"
Section 3:
What is.....
- Portrait: "A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant."
- Landscape: "Depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition."
- Still life: "A work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on)."
- Realistic Art: "Generally defined as the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality, and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements."
- Abstract Art: "Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art."
- Non-objective Art: "Another way to refer to Abstract art or nonrepresentational art. Essentially, the artwork does not represent or depict a person, place or thing in the natural world."
- Imitationalism: " Favor the realistic representation of subject matter in artworks."
- Emontionalism: "The tendency to display emotion freely or to rely on or place too much value on emotion."
- Formalism: "Concept that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form--the way it is made and its style"
Section 4:
- Include a video that highlights a technique that you will use
Scumbling Technique Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWn5A8xRyE
Section 3:
Color Scheme Sample: