MIXED MEDIA: Abstract Watercolor NAME:______
LESSON FOCUS: This lesson focuses on creating an abstract watercolor painting using numerous techniques and outlining different shapes in sharpie.
VOCABULARY:
Abstract: Non-realistic, emphasis of artwork focuses on elements and principles of art.
Backruns: Found in watercolor painting, backruns are those dreadful hard-edged shapes that sometimes creep into a clear wash when the paper dries unevenly and cockles.
Blending: Is a means of achieving soft, melting color gradations by brushing or rubbing the edge where to tones or colors meet.
Contour Line: An outline of an image created from two contrasting shapes, colors, textures, etc.
Glazing: Glazing is a technique in which thin, transparent washes of color are laid on successive layers of dried colors, such as many sheets of colored tissue paper.
Graded wash: In watercolor, the purpose of a graded wash is to create an area of color that moves gradually from dark to light, from light to dark, or from one color to another.
Masking out: Masking out means isolating certain areas of a painting by covering them up with a paint-resistant surface, so that they can be freely worked over without marking the surface.
Pan: In painting, the name of the storage container for individual watercolors.
Plastic wrap technique: The use of plastic wrap placed onto a wet wash of watercolor to produce textures and effects.
Salt technique: The use of salt sprinkled into a wet wash of watercolor or ink to produce textures and effects.
Shape: Organic or geometric. 2-dimensional, having length and width.
Variegated wash: With water-based media exciting and unusual effects can be obtained by laying different colored washes side by side so that the melt into each other wet-in-wet.
Watercolor: A painting medium consisting of pigments suspended in a solution of water and gum Arabic; often stored in pans.
Wet-in-wet: Colors are applied over or into each other while they are wet, leaving them partially mixed on the paper.
PROCEDURE:
· Complete watercolor exercise.
· Choose colors that you think will work well together- usually ones that are in a row mix well. Stay away from all the colors or opposites, as they will make browns. Do not use white.
· Using at least three of the techniques you explored on your watercolor exercise, create an abstract painting that focuses on shapes and color mixing.
· You can leave some areas of the paper white or use masking, however 75% of the paper must be painted. You can tilt paper to encourage drips and runs.
· Once you are pleased with the painting, let it dry FLAT!
· You can go back into the painting after it has dried, but once paint has been applied it can not be taken off or covered up.
· Once the painting is completely dry, use a sharpie to outline the new shapes that you see. Experiment with line thickness when you outline. Your composition must be balanced.