Greyscale Value paintings

Students created these value paintings in watercolor according to a great lesson plan I purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers.  I can't find the name of the author, but I'll try to post it later.  This lesson incorporated grid enlargement, composition, value and watercolor techniques.

 

Tamara Phillips inspired artwork complete!

Students began by practicing mixing colors and creating "bubbles" in the style of Tamara Phillips. Next they chose a photo to use as inspiration to create a painting in this style.  It was a challenging project and they did a beautiful job!

Art Project inspired by the work of Tamara Phillips

My 7th grade - adult students are creating watercolor paintings inspired by the artwork of Tamara Phillips.  You can see her work at www.tamaraphillips.ca/  

 

 

 

 

They will be starting by using one of the following photographs:

 

Jim Dine inspired mixed medium Heart Art

 

First we looked at and discussed Jim Dine's heart paintings, noticing colors in terms of temperature and value.  Noticing that mixed colors are much more interesting.

We started with a stencil and black acrylic paint

Next we covered it with gesso and drew in our hearts, marking off a grid for the background. We experimented with mixing watercolors in each square.

 

Next we colored some used oil pastels to color in the hearts, layering the colors to reveal changes in value making our hearts appear 3-D

Then we took our original stencil and scraffito'ed some of the pattern into our heart.

Then we outlined with black and blended it down letting the black be thicker on the shadowed side of the heart

Some of us used colored pencil with our stencil and then watercolored the heart using charcoal blended in for our darker value and out line

ok here goes with my first post!  Last week many of my students worked on an Eli Halpin inspired project

 

 

 

We started with a step by step contour drawing, then traced it with either a black or brown marker.  Next we took water/brush and began to wet the marker creating some shading and also adding black/brown watercolor with touches of blue or purple.  We also blotted the watercolors to create elephant skin texture.  Backgrounds were filled in with two coats of acrylic paint.  We left the trunks until the end and colored them in with markers then created patterns with sharpies and gel pens.