Sunday, June 28, 2015

How To Paint Blossoms Easy Watercolor Worksheet For the Young Artist.

How to paint spring blossoms is a simple little watercolor project

This worksheet will give the young artist some ideas about how-to-paint a beautiful picture.

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How to paint Blossoms in Watercolor Worksheet

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FIRST
One of the most important things in any painting is the composition, take time to design your picture. Do some sketches and look at photos. Nothing fixes a bad composition no matter how good your technique or skill you must start with a good drawing.

HOW TO TRACE, My worksheet has an image that you can trace or copy. It is hard to trace through heavy watercolor paper so I tape the study sketch to a window with the sunlight coming through and then it is easier to trace.

BACKGROUND
Some may say do the background last others say first and you may approach different projects differently, but since the flower is white do the background first so you can see your progress. Wet the background with clean clear water and then wash in the color so it is all smooth. If your paper is a good quality that will be easy since the water will sit and wait for the color. Try dropping a little darker blue into the sky blue near the top and let it blend a little.

LEAVES (Middle ground)
Paint the leaves in two distinct separate steps. First using a light green fill them in evenly and completely.

Second LET THAT DRY

Third, on your mixing tray add a little red into green and using a small brush draw the details of the leaves. Draw in the veins and the shadows. Where one leaf is behind another give the one behind a darker edge next to the one in front, and where the leaves are nearest the blossom use the red-green mixture to make them look like they are in the shadow of the blossom.

THE BLOSSOM (foreground)
The blossom is mostly white but has an edge of red and a hint of green in the center. Do each petal one by one. Take a small brush and pick up some watery red. On the outermost edge of the petal put a little red at the edge at the tip. While it is wet take a clean medium brush with only water on it and starting at the center of the flower wet the petal and use the brush to push water to the red edge. The red should flow into the clear water and be paler as it nears the center. Keep some tissue nearby and use it to blot up if the red is too dark or goes too far. You only want a little red. Repeat for each of the five blossoms.

While it is still wet use a watery almost clear mix of green and dab a little in the center.

Last dot some yellow in the center and use some green-brown for the stem.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Home School Art Lesson

Spectrum Homeschool Art Lesson.

One of the problems in teaching young people to draw is the skill of looking. We glance at a thing and recognize what it is and then draw the subject but it is not the one we looked at it is that one and the inventory of all the others we have seen stored in our memory. The details of the one that we are drawing are lost because we are not drawing it we are drawing on of it.

In class we remind ourselves to "Look at the thing you are drawing as much as you look at the drawing of the thing."

We use our own non dominate hand as our subject with the emphasis of observing the uniqueness of that hand. In a sense the students have seen that hand every day of their lives but now they are to really look at it, and try to recreate as many details of that one hand as possible.

Before we draw the hand we have a general review of the hand and it's shapes, and form.

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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Drawing Lesson On Using Line To Create Texture In A Drawing.

Texture can add a lot of interest to a picture as well as depth and value. This lesson deals specifically with a pen drawing but the concepts will translate in other mediums such as pencil, and pastel.

A rural cottage was used in the illustration but still-life or other theme works as well. The advantage of the landscape is the variety of textures such as rock, tree bark, grass leaves, etc. It helps to work off of a photo or to go outside where there is a lot of natural texture to discover.

There are different catalogs of lines but each artist must find his own preference and master the ones that work best for them.

Illustration for using line for texture in a drawing.Art lesson

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WARM-UP
On a practice paper experiment with different lines such as small scribbles, rolling lines, wavy lines, straight dashes, curved dashes, and dashes where the pressure goes from firm to light.

BEGINNING OF PROJECT
This is not going to be a masterpiece, the goal is to learn how lines can create texture.
Quickly layout the picture, in the illustration a rural cottage was drawn lightly with minimal detail so that the texture can be used to fill in the body of the drawing.

TAKE YOUR TIME!!!!

FACING WALL ON RIGHT: The lines used for the wall facing the viewer appears to be constructed with flat flagstones. So the texture is mostly short horizontal lines. These lines are also thinner and lighter so use less pressure.

WALL ON THE LEFT: Looks to be another flagstone wall but different. Use horizontal dashes.

BUSH IN FOREGROUND: The texture is like a wiggly line that is wider at the base and narrower to a point at the end.

FOREGROUND WALLS: These look like larger stones, the texture is made of squares or rectangles.

DISTANT WALLS. Distance reduces detail, the wall has a texture of dashes.

FOREGROUND BUSH: The lines go in swirly patterns. The line goes around and over itself.

DISTANT BUSH AND TREES. The lines are open scribbles with as little pattern as possible.

ROOF: Light lines, shaped like the letter L or number 7.

Dashes and dots were used in various places in the illustration as well.

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1/11/15

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Representational Drawing of an Odd Shaped Object.

I admit that I borrowed this idea from a class my daughter took.

The purpose is to develop observation skills.

It is a good practice to draw something that is not part of your mental inventory- you have to look at it.

We took a soda can and partially crumpled it. This reduced the cylinder shape by giving it wrinkles and folds. The crumpled can will have many angles with light reflecting that require observation.

This illustration was done in a sketchbook with an hb pencil.

Illustration of drawing by observation.

One of my many rules is to look at the thing you are drawing as much as you are looking at the drawing you are making of the thing.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Homeschool Art Lesson With The Wooden Model

Spectrum home school lesson for drawing.

This week we drew, among other things, the wooden model man that we know as "Woody." These wooden models of the human figure are in most of the arts and craft stores. I bring the wooden model to class at least once a month. The best way to master the human figure is to draw it often in as many ways as you can.

I have the students pose the model so it is interesting and we simply draw it as a warm-up or as one of several projects.

There are several approaches to drawing the model. Today we used the articulated stick figure method. We begin by drawing a stick figure with circles for the elbows, knees, and other joints and straight lines for the length of the arms and legs. (Illustrated as the first drawing on the left in the example below.) The stick figure allows the drawing to all fit on the page since students have a habit of drawing the model larger than the paper they are drawing on.

After we have the figure positioned on the page then we begin to fill out the area of the figure with ovals circles and other shapes. (See the center drawing below).

By going around these shapes we further define the shapes. Lastly, we add shadows to give the roundness and dimension to the figure. (Drawing on the right)

Tips For Drawing The Wooden Model Man From Art class.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Home School Art Lesson, Resources and Design a composition.

Art Lesson. Composition using resources.

There are many forms of composition and many rules that make a good piece of art. Young people are not aware of all the homework that goes into making a design of a good picture. In this lesson, I brought several picture magazines and calendars and instruct the students to use at least three different elements from three different resources to work out a design.

For example, one resource had a lovely old barn, another resource had a rickety old barbed wire fence going from foreground to middle ground. A third resource had a river flowing across the middle ground. All three were combined to make a rural scene.

After they decide what to use they must do a pre-project sketch to organize their picture I prefer two such pre-project sketches but one will communicate the idea. Sketching these elements quickly on a small page of newsprint helps to get the ideas formed together where the three elements were combined to create a scene.

Sometimes things like perspective and values need to be corrected between the different resources.

After the pre-project sketch is done the project is begun with the resources and sketches in full view for reference. The final project was done on a full sized page.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Homeschool Art Watercolor Lesson And Building Character

Working with watercolor some home school students learn the character trait of patience. Each step must dry before you proceed to the next layer. The building layer on top of layer adds detail and depth as well as value.

Watercolor can be used in many ways but the lesson today was to use layers of wash adding darker hues over the dried lighter hues to get the round shape of the apple.

We set a pair of apples on a tissue and began our project. One apple stood upright and one lay on its side. The first step is to lightly sketch an outline of the apples and the napkin.

FIRST WASH
We begin our first watercolor wash of the background table top using a light value of brown. Let this step dry before adding the wood grain.

We do our first wash of the apples in clear water and then drop in watery red and let it spread; if necessary we use a rinsed out dry brush to move the paint around but only a little. A little green is added to the wet where the stem is.

Now the hard part! Let it dry before going on to the next layer. This is almost torture for kids.

SECOND LAYER
When it has dried take a smaller brush and mix some darker reds using some purple or brown. Use these darker reds to add darkness only to the parts of the apple that are darker. Don't overdo it. Let this step dry.

Use some lavender or blue to put shadow in the tissue.

Use some darker browns to "draw" the grain in the wood table top. Use only the tip of the brush and go back and forth over the dried light brown you did at the beginning.

THIRD LAYER
Use a very small brush and finish the apple with the last layer of the darkest reds. Darker tones can be added to the shadows.

Draw the stems in brown.

Unfortunately, I do not have a step by step example but below is the finished project. I did this while standing holding my materials in my hands; this was not steady and by no means my best work. The paint was a student's toy store set of paints.

Apples, Example of Watercolor Art Lesson.

In my home studio, I often use a hair dryer when I have a large project to get done so I can add layers without waiting a long time for each layer to dry.

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