Ms. Urioste Intro to Painting

This technique sometimes involves thick paint that is sometimes applied with a palette knife called the technique.

Claude Monet

Edouard Manet

Camille Pissaro Claude Monet

For a landscape painting, the composition is how the artist has arranged the subject matter on the canvas.

Background

Middle ground

Foreground

“C” Shape “S” Shape Cruciform Mass Grid Triangle Pattern

Artists have discovered that there are some compositions that are more successful than others. The following types have been successful for hundreds of years.

The subject matter touches all four sides of the canvas.

A large mass obstructs the background.

Rembrandt

• A winding path• Diagonal Composition • Changes in size and Overlap•Changes in clarity – atmospheric haze•Radiating Lines to a vanishing point

Overlap of Objects and Changes in Size

Large objects in the foreground smaller ones in the background.

Mono = OneChroma = Color

A painting done white one color (blue) is monochromatic.

A = NoChroma = Color

They are primary because no two colors can be mixed to create them.

A secondary color is a primary + primary = secondary

B + Y = GR + B = VY + R = O

There are six

Primary + Secondary = Tertiary

Red – VioletRed – OrangeYellow – Orange Yellow – Green Blue – Green Blue – Violet

Yellow and Violet Blue and Orange

Red and Green

Why are they compliments?

Because they compliment one another and are opposite on the color wheel.

Yellow, orange, red, and red-orange

• Warm colors appear to Advance toward the viewer.

Blue, violet, green and blue-green • Cool colors appear to Recede away from the Viewer.