1. “Memories of Youth” Acrylic Painting Project Theme Choices: Games, Toys, Candy, Clothing, Places, or Memories

2. As part of this assignment, you will need to choose a Principle of Design to focus on and display in your own painting composition. You need to review & re-familiarize yourself with this vocabulary!

3. Childhood Games

4. Radial Balance

6. Repetition Rhythm Pattern

7. Childhood Toys

8. The blue object is Emphasized here. You can tell because all of the other objects are warm-colored.

10. If you are going to use famous, recognizable characters, you need to find toys to photograph. Do not just copy an internet print-out. Booorrrrinng! This person might have liked Pez candy or collected Pez dispensers… They chose to stick with a simple Disney Mickey theme & photographed against a plain cloth background.

11. Which one is a better example of Pattern? Are the crayons more interesting when organized or spilled?

12. Look at the texture! This is an example of using the Impasto technique to show texture purposly.

14. Candy

15. Variety shown in different colors used as well as contrasting values

17. Objects that stand against a simple background can effectively show Economy

19. An example of Movement: Can you imagine the candy spilling out of the jar?

20. The top two are good examples of Harmony… Notice the Repetition, Rhythm, & Pattern these compositions create!

21. Shoes & Clothing An example of Size and Proportion

22. The shadow and the tricycle create a sense of balance. Variety as shown with different textures

23. Characteristics of Atmospheric Perspective: Objects closer: Are brighter, larger, & more detailed Objects farther: Are duller, smaller, & less detailed

24. You are NOT allowed to paint photos printed from the internet! You MAY use old childhood photos OF YOU taken by your parents or family members. Be aware… This is a very challenging option & much harder to paint!

25. The Element of LINE is used to show the Principal of Movement in these examples? Also an interesting example of Proportion

26. Again…As part of this assignment, you will need to choose a Principle of Design to focus on and display in your own painting composition. You need to review & re-familiarize yourself with this vocabulary!

27. Photo Set up! Bring in your “childhood” objects to photograph in class OR… If you photograph your set up at home, you will need to bring in the photo printed in color. Set your objects in a still life using a simple background: Cloth or Solid Mat board color Not a distracting background such as the classroom!

28. Acrylic Painting Principals of Design Color Vocabulary Review

29. Color: an Element of Art may be utilized in a realistic manner, a decorative manner, or to influence the mood or emotional feel of a composition. Color begins with and is derived from light. When light is weak it is difficult to distinguish different colors (dusk and dawn). Hue is the name of a color Intensity is the brightness, saturation, strength, or purity of a hue or color. Intensity can be dulled using the complementary color.

30. Primary Colors are the hues that all the other spectrum of colors can be made from. Secondary Colors made by mixing two primaries. Intermediate Colors are the results of mixing primary and secondary colors. Complementary Colors: Colors across from each other on the color wheel. Mixed will dull each other’s intensity.

31. Value: The range of lights to darks. A Monochromatic color scheme has one hue plus black and white values. Tint: a lighter value of a hue. To create a tint, add white paint into the hue. Shade: a darker value of a hue. To create a shade, add black paint into the hue. Neutral: a hue that is made from mixing two complements.

32. Local Color: a color that is painted as it is seen in the objective (real) world (grass is green, sky is blue) Non-Local Color is a color palette that is chosen by the artist to evoke a unique quality or mood. Which painting is an example of local color vs. non-local color? …

33. Atmospheric Perspective: A sense of depth created by using subdued or grayed down colors at the horizon to show depth. Colors closer to the foreground will be brighter and colors farther into the background will be duller.

34. Acrylic Paint Vocabulary Acrylic paint: water-soluble polymer-based paints. They may be thinned for a “watercolor” effect or used thickly for a richer “oil” effect. When dry, acrylic is NOT water soluble. (It dries very quickly!) Gel Medium: a clear, jelly-like material one can add to acrylic paint as an extender for thickening effect, or for transparent color glazes. Gloss medium gives a shiny finish. Matte medium is used for collage application and gives a dull finish. Acrylic Retarder: a fluid medium that when mixed with acrylic paint slows down drying, allowing more time for applying and blending colors.

35. Canvas: heavy cotton fabric that is stretched over a wooden frame (stretcher bars) or a flat board and used as a support for a painting. Gesso: mixture of glue, whiting (powdered calcium carbonate), and water used as an undercoat or ground so a painter can have a “primed,” smooth surface to paint on.

36. Painting Techniques Impasto: the thick application or build-up of paint to give a visible texture. Van Gogh used impasto. Bleeding: the tendency for some colors to show through a second, thinner layer of paint. Drybrush Painting: making the brush almost free of pigment (and no water) before applying. Wet-on-wet: the action of blending one wet paint color with or next to another wet paint color to create a smooth transition between the two. Impasto Wet-on-wet Drybrush

37. Brush Definitions Ferrule: the metal piece that holds hairs (bristles) Filaments: individual hairs in a brush. Hair (Bristles): animal hair used in brushes includes sable, goat, mongoose, badger, ox, hog, squirrel, pony Sabeline: ox hair dyed to resemble red sable. These tend to make the best quality brushes. Synthetic: man-made nylon or polyester filaments. Your brushes are made of Taklon (synthetic material)