Halloween Themed Art

 

Indigineous Artists of Canada

 

Ted Harrison Painting : working with acrylics

Ted Harrison:

"Life is a rainbow road, multicoloured with the most brilliant hues and contrasting with the darkest tones. It is illuminated by the light of success, and rutted by the tracks of failure. Tears of sadness and joy wash its surface while the clouds of doubt and insecurity dapple its course. As we traverse this highway we can reach the highest pinnacles or descend to the darkest valleys.

Finally, when the end of the road is in sight, we may cast our eyes to the distant horizon where everything began; and say with conviction,
"That sure was one hell of a journey."— TED HARRISON

 

Watercolour Basics Grade 8

 Tips for Watercolour

1. Always use good materials and take care of your materials

2. Always add water to your paint or to your paper

wet on wet = allows the paint to move around 

wet on dry = more control with the paint

more water = lighter colour

less water = darker colour

3. Do not paint up to the lines, but leave an edge of whitespace

4. When doing a wash, keep it light and leave whitespace for the eye to move around your piece

5. Start with light pencil as guidelines, then go over in ink if you like

6. Use your knowledge of colour theory when blending colours, blend on the table or palette 

7. Play with colours, trees to not have to be green and brown, they could be pink and purple

8. When creating a watercolour, draw from an image not from your head

pen&ink watercolour

simple watercolour ideas

Sample Assignments 2024

You in animal form

Creating your inner animal character

You are going to create an animal character of yourself. it will help to print a photo of an animal head or a cartoon animal head. You can have the animal doing something, have a favourit object that defines you. Please draw in pencil first, show teacher, then continue to ink out your drawing. Please add colour however you wish (pencil crayon, watercolour, or marker).

LINK to Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/lchase65/abstract-art/

Animal like human

Animal crew

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Introduction to Clay