WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE McMath Art: 8 th grade

Watercolor landscapes  Yay! You know the elements of art now we can move on to applying some of those principals of design into your artwork  Element of Art: Space (Positive vs. Negative)  Principals of Design (Harmony and Unity) Background of this landscape not in watercolor but good example of Positive and Negative Space.

EOA: Space (Positive vs. Negative)  Positive space is the subject or object.  Negative space is the empty space surrounding the subject or object.

Make you landscape (negative space) more interesting by creating the illusion of space (depth) What techniques could you use? -Overlapping -Foreground, middle ground, background -Scale Change -Darker values in the front, lighter values in the back. What is your subject (positive space) going to be? -Trees, house, buildings, etc.

How do the artist show unity and harmony in their landscape paintings?

Watercolor Techniques  You will be including different watercolor painting techniques into your negative space.  Charging  Wet on Wet  Dry brush  Mingling  Lifting  Glazing

Charging Lifting Dry brush Glazing Wet on Wet Mingling Loaded paint brush on dry paper While paint is wet use brush to “lift” color off. Very thin transparent layers of color, one color over another After painting a layer of color drop “charge” water or paint into the wet paint. Wet paper First then add paint. Like charging, paint a layer of color and charge different colors into the wet layer.

Resist  Resist is any material, usually wax or grease crayons that repels paint or dyes. Can you spot where the artist used resist? Is it found in the positive or negative space?

Brush Care A

Getting Started  In your sketchbook draw 4 thumbnails (mini sketches) of that show your subject (positive space) and landscape (negative space)  Thumbnails will be in black and white.  Worth 100%- each thumbnail is worth 25 points Sky: negative Lake: negative Mountains: Positive

Getting started Part 2  YAY!!! You FINALLY get to paint  On a scrap piece of watercolor paper you will practice different techniques.  Make sure to label each technique.

How you’ll be graded  _________ 10 pts. Did I show positive and negative space?  _________ 10 pts. Did I include at least 4 watercolor techniques?  _________10 pts. Did my landscape include a color scheme?  _________ 40 pts. Did I successfully show UNITY and HARMONY in my landscape?  __________ 10 pts. Did I complete a self-evaluation?  _________20 pts. Craftsmanship – Is my work neat & clean? Does my artwork reflect my BEST effort?

Self-evaluation to be completed before turning in final project.  On tear out a piece of sketchbook paper and attach to your final project.  Please answer the following in complete sentences  1. How did you show positive and negative space?  2. What watercolor techniques did you use?  3. Describe how you successfully created UNITY and HARMONY in your landscape.  4. What would you do differently? What did you do well? What was the most challenging part?

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