Water Color Unit Lecture
- 2. What’s Going on Today? 11/7 ➔ Intro to Watercolor Important Dates What Do You Need Today? ➔ Note taking materials
- 3. What is Watercolor? How do you use watercolor? Have you ever used watercolor? When have you used watercolor?
- 5. During this lesson, you will create your own Collectible Cards
- 6. Watercolor Cards Project We will be using watercolor paint and Micron pens to create a series of 4 collectible cards. The cards will be linked together by a common THEME of your choosing. You also get to pick what kind of cards you want to make! The only requirements are that you use watercolor and pens, it’s school appropriate, and there’s a clear theme linking all 4 cards together.
- 7. Watercolor Cards Project You will be utilizing the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design to create eye-catching cards that YOU would want to collect. Now let’s talk about watercolor…
- 8. The Workings, John Lovett
- 9. What is Watercolor? A translucent art medium made with pigment suspended in a water-based binder. Once you add water, the binder dissolves and leaves you with just pigment and water.
- 10. Types of Watercolor Pans: ● Dried “cakes” in individual pans ● Activate with water before use ● Cheaper than tube watercolors ● Best suited for smaller brushes/paintings Tubes: ● Wet paint in tubes, similar to acrylic or oil paints ● Does not need to be activated ● More vibrant than pan watercolors ● More expensive
- 11. Characteristics of Watercolor ● Transparent ○ Ability to layer colors and textures ● Loose style ○ Colors can blend and bleed together ● Soft and light ○ The paper always shows through the paint, making every color look very pastel Bideford, Frank Webb
- 12. What’s Going on Today? 11/8 ➔ Watercolor Cont. ➔ Watercolor Techniques Exercise ➔ Brainstorming Worksheet Important Dates ● 11/10 Brainstorming Worksheet Due What Do You Need Today? ➔ Brushes ➔ Watercolor paints ➔ Paper ➔ Masking tape
- 13. Watercolor Techniques ● Use masking tape to create 8 equal sections on your paper ● Experiment with different techniques in each section ● Feel free to experiment with combining colors and techniques within the same section
- 14. Brainstorming ● Write down as many ideas as you can for examples of cards that you may want to base your project off of ● List out themes that relate to you that you can use within your cards ● Feel free to draw small thumbnail sketches as well if you need
- 15. What’s Going on Today? 11/9 ➔ Continue working on watercolor techniques exercise Important Dates ● 11/10 Brainstorming Worksheet Due What Do You Need Today? ➔ Brushes ➔ Watercolor paints ➔ Paper
- 16. What’s Going on Today? 11/10 ➔ Color Theory ➔ Color Wheel exercise ➔ Thumbnail Sketches Important Dates ● 11/11 Thumbnail Sketches due What Do You Need Today? ➔ Brushes ➔ Watercolor paints ➔ Paper ➔ Pencil
- 17. Color Theory Color: the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye
- 18. Primary Colors RED YELLOW BLUE Used together to create ALL other colors in the visible spectrum
- 19. Secondary Colors ORANGE GREEN PURPLE Colors created by mixing 2 primary colors together
- 20. Tertiary Colors Colors created by mixing a secondary color with one of its parent primary colors GREEN + BLUE or YELLOW ORANGE + YELLOW or RED PURPLE + RED or BLUE
- 21. Complimentary Colors Colors on opposite ends of the color wheel PRIMARY COLOR and the SECONDARY COLOR created by the other 2 primaries YELLOW -> PURPLE RED -> GREEN BLUE -> ORANGE
- 23. What’s Going on Today? 11/11 ➔ Thumbnail Sketch review ➔ Micron pen overview ➔ Zentangle exercise Important Dates ● 11/15 Mid-point Critique ● 11/18 Final Drawings due & Final Critique What Do You Need Today? ➔ Paper ➔ Pencil ➔ Micron pen
- 24. Micron Pens ● Fine Lines ● Quick Drying ● Waterproof ● Very popular among artists for the past 30 years
- 27. How to Zentangle Start with a 3”x3” square 1. Use pencil to make a dot in each corner 2. Connect each corner to close the square. You can use straight or wavy lines 3. Draw a few more lines in pencil to divide up the square, keep it loose 4. Using the micron pen, start doodling. Let your mind wander and doodle without worry until the square is full.
- 28. What’s Going on Today? 11/14 ➔ Demo ➔ Pencil sketches for final project Important Dates ● 11/18 Final Project Due & Critique What Do You Need Today? ➔ Paper ➔ Pencil
- 29. Preliminary Sketches ● Expand upon your chosen thumbnail sketches ● This is your time to refine composition and details ● Take your time, and explore different ideas ● Use the paper however you need to, make notes to yourself, add/erase. This is YOUR planning process. ● Think about the colors and techniques you will include in your final project
- 30. What’s Going on Today? 11/15 ➔ Demo ➔ Begin painting cards Important Dates ● 11/18 Final Project Due & Critique What Do You Need Today? ➔ Paper ➔ Pencil ➔ Watercolors ➔ brushes
- 31. The painting process ● Divide your paper into 4 equal sections ● Tape the paper down while you are painting ● If you would like to have clean borders, use masking tape along the edges. ● Use pencil to lightly draw out your finalized sketches ● Start painting! ● Take your time, experiment with different styles, colors, and techniques
- 32. What’s Going on Today? 11/16 ➔ Studio Time Important Dates ● 11/18 Final Project Due & Critique What Do You Need Today? ➔ Paper ➔ Pencil ➔ Watercolors ➔ brushes
- 33. Inking ● Draw over your pencil sketch lines ● Take it slow and steady ● Try and make each line in a single pass rather than short sketchy lines ● Use the pens to create texture to elevate the drawings ● Feel free to add patterns and backgrounds ● Lightly erase leftover pencil lines if they are visible ● Remove masking tape once you are all done.
- 34. What’s Going on Today? 11/17 ➔ Studio Time Important Dates ● 11/18 Final Project Due & Critique What Do You Need Today? ➔ Paper ➔ Pencil ➔ Watercolors ➔ brushes
- 35. What’s Going on Today? 11/18 ➔ Please hang up your final cards ➔ Critique! Important Dates What Do You Need Today? ➔ Paper ➔ Pencil
- 36. What is a Critique We will go over each project one by one The artist will have the opportunity to share what your cards represent, inspiration, themes, or anything else that led to the creation process Everyone else, talk about what you like, what isn’t working, or what can be improved. Keep it positive, and try to speak about each work objectively.