Gr 10 - Intro to Painting Techniques

Here are the set of painting techniques that we are going to practice in anticipation of your formal painting. They are chosen to give you a real hands on exploration of many of the possibilities and properties of Acrylic paint. When combined with our discussion on proper consistency, thinning and maintenance - It should also give you some real insight into which techniques do and do not work for you personally and how our class colours relate to each other on a painted surface.

Painting techniques – 8 4x4” squares with simple geometric ABSTRACT designs (do 3 rough choose 1 – transfer best to Bristol board or primed cardboard by scribbling on back of page)

1 - hard edges clean smooth surfaces - complimentary colours

2  impasto – attempt min of three different surfaces – one dark and one light colour (other than white)

3 graded washes – thin layers of wet colour built up to different degrees of intensity - monochromatic

4  wet on wet – again thin wet paint applied to a wet surface, analogous primary and secondary colours (no tertiary!)

5 Gradation– any 1 colour + white/black ; each area must display gradation in pure tone OR tint OR tone

6 Painterly Pointillism - mixing on surface - showing brushwork/demarcation - use 2 hues of a single colour plus white and/or black

7 splatter/airbrush technique – using 1 colour plus tint and tone – masking of areas is necessary to preserve the original underlying pattern

8  collage – using any colours they like but the student must incorporate paper collaged into the existing pattern – using the paint itself as the sole bonding agent