Textural Landscape Paintings
Objective: To encourage students to research and familiarize themselves with the art style of working with an underpainting and utilizing texture. Students will learn oil painting and composition skills and create a landscape that includes a red background. Students will utilize their knowledge of the elements and principles to achieve this.
Why paint on red?
With the canvas already colored, there is no need to cover every centimeter of it. Colors are less likely to become muddied by mixing as they touch. Ground color can separate different colors painted wet next to wet, avoiding unwanted mixing. Red which is medium in value provides contrast with whites/highlight colors as well as contrast with darker shadow colors. Red is especially suitable in landscape and water scenes. It contrasts opposing greens and cerulean blues creating visual vibration effects, most effective in foreground areas. The color ground, allowed to consistently show through between painted brush marks, gives an overall sense of unity to the finished painting.
Resources/ sites:
http://www.carolinejasper.com/wkshp_dmstrtns/landred.htm
http://www.carolinejasper.com/P1_landscps/A_lndscp.1.htm
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Landscapes_g114.html
Materials: Oil paint, canvas
Criteria:
Due Dates: Sketches Due:
Painting Due:
Terms and Definitions
color wheel: the relationship of colors to each other
tint: adding white to color
shade: adding black to color
hue: purest form of that color
primary colors: the first colors - red yellow blue
secondary colors: the second colors - green orange purple
complimentary colors: opposite on color wheel and when mixed makes brown
mono-chromatic color: one color and tint to shade
analogous colors: colors that are next to each other
tertiary colors: mixing one primary and one secondary color together
opaque: solid color that you can't see through
transparent: color you can see through
Underpainting - A monochromatic sketch put down on the canvas first, as an infrastructure, which will be completely covered up by the painting.
Harmony - A feeling of similarity between the elements involved. There may be harmony involving any of the elements of structure - line, color, value, structure, shape.
Contrast - Opposite of harmony, used to emphasize part of the design area
Dominance - The importance of certain design elements over others - may relate to any of the design elements.
Stretcher - The wooden frame on which canvas or paper is stretched.
Gesso - A plaster-like material spread upon a surface to prepare it for painting.
Prime - To make ready. The preparatory coating.
oil paint - Slow drying paint made when pigments are mixed with an oil, linseed oil being most traditional. The oil dries with a hard film, and the brightness of the colors is protected. Oil paints are usually opaque and traditionally used on canvas. They can have a matte, semi-gloss, or glossy finish. Gained popularity in 15th century. Its practice may have migrated westward during the Middle Ages. Oil paint eventually became the principal medium used for creating artworks as its advantages became widely known. The transition began with Early Netherlandish painting in northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced tempera paints in the majority of Europe.
Why paint on red?
With the canvas already colored, there is no need to cover every centimeter of it. Colors are less likely to become muddied by mixing as they touch. Ground color can separate different colors painted wet next to wet, avoiding unwanted mixing. Red which is medium in value provides contrast with whites/highlight colors as well as contrast with darker shadow colors. Red is especially suitable in landscape and water scenes. It contrasts opposing greens and cerulean blues creating visual vibration effects, most effective in foreground areas. The color ground, allowed to consistently show through between painted brush marks, gives an overall sense of unity to the finished painting.
Resources/ sites:
http://www.carolinejasper.com/wkshp_dmstrtns/landred.htm
http://www.carolinejasper.com/P1_landscps/A_lndscp.1.htm
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Landscapes_g114.html
Materials: Oil paint, canvas
Criteria:
- Research landscape images with strong light that show depth and texture.
- Read handout on landscape on a red ground
- Once you have familiarized yourself with the style of work develop your own ideas into 2 small paintings in your sketchbook using the red ground technique.
- To Emulate the Artist you should do the following:
- A landscape showing foreground middle ground and background.
- Texture and trees or plants and has an Emphasis point
- Allow pops of the red background to show through in the foreground and middle ground, do not cover the whole canvas
- Use dramatic lighting with shadows and place complimentary colors near each other
- Use of a variety of painting techniques (scumbling, glazing, dry brush, smooth blending)
- Have a well thought out plan for execution
- Choose best idea and re-create on canvas. Paint canvas with light red acrylic paint. Sketch lightly in pencil. Use proper oil paint techniques to create your landscape.
Due Dates: Sketches Due:
Painting Due:
Terms and Definitions
color wheel: the relationship of colors to each other
tint: adding white to color
shade: adding black to color
hue: purest form of that color
primary colors: the first colors - red yellow blue
secondary colors: the second colors - green orange purple
complimentary colors: opposite on color wheel and when mixed makes brown
mono-chromatic color: one color and tint to shade
analogous colors: colors that are next to each other
tertiary colors: mixing one primary and one secondary color together
opaque: solid color that you can't see through
transparent: color you can see through
Underpainting - A monochromatic sketch put down on the canvas first, as an infrastructure, which will be completely covered up by the painting.
Harmony - A feeling of similarity between the elements involved. There may be harmony involving any of the elements of structure - line, color, value, structure, shape.
Contrast - Opposite of harmony, used to emphasize part of the design area
Dominance - The importance of certain design elements over others - may relate to any of the design elements.
Stretcher - The wooden frame on which canvas or paper is stretched.
Gesso - A plaster-like material spread upon a surface to prepare it for painting.
Prime - To make ready. The preparatory coating.
oil paint - Slow drying paint made when pigments are mixed with an oil, linseed oil being most traditional. The oil dries with a hard film, and the brightness of the colors is protected. Oil paints are usually opaque and traditionally used on canvas. They can have a matte, semi-gloss, or glossy finish. Gained popularity in 15th century. Its practice may have migrated westward during the Middle Ages. Oil paint eventually became the principal medium used for creating artworks as its advantages became widely known. The transition began with Early Netherlandish painting in northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced tempera paints in the majority of Europe.