Category Archives: Weekly Art Lessons 11-20
Mixing Ireland’s Forty Shades of Green (On-line art lesson #11)
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Johnny Cash is responsible for our talk about “Ireland’s forty shades of green”. He counted low.
- Watch the video
- Get out your paints in whatever media you use.
- MIX (try new combinations), and PAY ATTENTION while you are mixing.
- See if you can learn to anticipate what the results will be – this is the skill you are after!!
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Staging Art Shows (On-line art lesson #12)
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You are ready to show your work! Note: that is a statement, not a question.
Be it on your refrigerator or in a museum, get your work out and up somewhere. And stand by it while you show it to people. Make it look good whether through better framing or an improved magnet that won’t detract from the art while it’s on the frig; that is the assignment for this week.… Read the rest
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Time to Paint Daffodils (On-line art lesson #13)
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It’s time to shake off winter and admire daffodils from the garden. Do you think you could do a study of one this week? Any media. To watch how the study below was painted, click on the video.
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Plein Air Travel Kit in a Baggie (On-line art lesson #14)
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To be able to paint and draw on multi-purpose trips, you need to be able to put together a small and light weight kit. Even on a designated painting trip, there are times when you will want to grab only the baggie when you go out.
- Plein air travel kit in a baggie, Lillian Kennedy
- Cotman watercolor kit
- small tube of white gouache How to Set Up Your Cotman Kit with Gouache for Plein Air Painting
- tiny water spritzer
- retractable pencil
- pen
- small water container
- tissue
- paper towel or piece of sports towel
- kneaded eraser
- drawing pad for drawing and taking notes – heavy enough to use with watercolor and cheap enough to not mind tearing out pages.
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How to Set Up Your Cotman Kit with Gouache for Plein Air Painting (On-line art lesson #15)
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Including white gouache turns watercolor painting into something closer to acrylic or oil painting. You don’t think about “saving” your whites or making irreversible marks because gouache is opaque and will cover what is beneath it. You paint in layers and easily go up or down with your values. Mixing the gouache with the other colors makes them opaque too. … Read the rest
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