Painting Techniques: Ways of Painting June 5, 2019 postadmin Post in Uncategorized Painting Techniques: Ways of PaintingThere are so many ways of painting that no book can possibly do justice to themall. However there are certin basic techniques that every painter should master.Opaque Technique:The simplest way to work with paintis to squeeze the color directly fromthe container onto the palette, brushin just enough water to produce acreamy consistency, and then applymasses of solid colour to thepainting surface.And the second layer of colour willhide the first.For obvious reasons, this is calledthe opaque technique. It’s a rapid,direct way to paint.Transparent Technique:If you add much more water to thecolour, you’ll produce a pool of tintedwater called a wash. You can see rightthrough it to the surface of the yourpalette, and you’ll also see through thetransparent colour when you brush it ontothe painting surface. The dried paint islike a sheet of coloured glass. A secondcoat will modify the first coat, the two willmix in the viewer’s eye but one coatwon’t conceal another. That’s why this iscalled the transparent technique.Scumbling Technique:To create tonal gradations from dark tolight, or shade one colour into anotherits important to learn how to handle thebrush. Scumbling is a kind ofscrubbing motion that spreads a veil ofcolour across the surface.Combining Techniques: Naturally, thereare many ways of combining these techniques. Inpainting a portrait head, it’s common to paint thelighted areas opaquely and then paint the shadowsin transparent colour. The soft transitions from lightto shadow, at places such as the cheeks or thebrow, might be produced by scumbling. As youspend more time working with tempera you will findyour own combinations.Painting Technique: OpaqueSTEP ONE: For your first taste of paintingchose a simple object like a bowl of fruit. Ona sheet of white paper make a free handpencil drawing outlining the major shapesand forms of the fruit and bowl.STEP TWO: You are going to work from darkto light, so brush in the overall shapes withmixtures that are actually the darkest colorsin your picture. Don’t thin your colour toomuch – just a few drops of water will do,keeping a rich creamy consistency so thatthe paint really covers the paper. Allow thisfirst layer to dry.STEP THREE: Mix some paler tones tocreate some dark shadows on the individualfruit. Once this is done next mix some lightertones for highlights, the paint should beapplied in layers so they really cover thedarks underneath.STEP FOUR: Always save your small detailsfor the very end. Now you can use opaquelight and dark strokes to pick out individualdetails, grapes, stems, to suggest textureand shape. The secret of the opaquetechnique is that each stroke is thick andsolid enough to cover what’s underneath.Painting Technique: TransparentSTEP ONE: Now try the transparenttechnique by painting another fruit bowl withvery fluid colour that’s diluted with a lot ofwater. On another sheet of paper start with alightly drawn free hand pencil drawingoutline.STEP TWO: Mix some pale washes, as theyare called, thinning your colour with lots ofwater. With your brush block the darkesttones of the picture with free relaxed strokes,the general shapes of all fruit and theshadows. Don’t be too precise and don’tthink about details just yet. The paint appliedshould be semi-transparent still.STEP THREE: Next mix some darker toneson your palette. You’re still using plenty ofwater, but not quite so much as you used inSTEP TWO. Work with big, free strokes,darkening some areas. Let the wet strokesoverlap so that they blur together. Rememberto leave some areas without a wash tosuggest highlights.STEP FOUR: When the previous step is dry,mix some even darker washes – less water,though still fluid – and darken the shadowyareas. You should still be able to see throughsome of the layers of water downed paint.Painting Technique: ScumblingSTEP ONE: To learn the technique calledscumbling, begin with drawing a penciloutline of the various forms.STEP TWO: On your palette, mix a tone foreach of the main colour areas. Add enoughwater to make the paint fairly fluid, like creamor milk. Cover each area with a flat tone.Allow each area to dry before you paint thenext.STEP THREE: Now mix a dark tone for theshadow side of the fruit, pick up a bit of apaint on the tip of your brush and apply thecolour in a series of strokes, moving thebrush back and forth with a scrubbing motionthat softens and blurs the stroke. Place somelighter strokes alongside the darker strokesso that you get the feeling of dark blendinginto middle tone.STEP FOUR: Now mix a much lighter tonefor the middle and highlight of the fruit. Againusing your brush, scrub on the colour with aback-and-forth motion, blurring the lightstrokes as you approach the darker area ofthe fruit. Placed side by side, the dark andlight scumbled strokes will seem to blend intoone another. You can also darken theshadow with more scumbling strokes. Painting Technique: Opaque Evaluation Name:_____________ AchievementCriteriaLevel 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4Application/CreationPaintingTechnique:OpaqueProgressive ValueAccuracy:Dark to LightCompletion/NeatnessDetailWork doesnot meetassignmentexpectationsfor thiscategory ofassessment.Incomplete.0Work doesnot meetassignmentexpectationsfor thiscategory ofassessment.Incomplete.0Incomplete.0Paintingdemonstrateslimited areas ofdirectly appliedpaintprogressivelyfrom dark to lightvalues.The compositiondoes not containsufficient oraccurate colourvalue to reflectthreedimensionality.1The submittedwork appearsobviouslyincomplete. Muchmore effort couldhave beenincluded: time hasobviously beenmismanaged.1The artist hasincluded limiteddetail in the work.1Paintingdemonstratessome areas ofdirectly appliedpaintprogressivelyfrom dark to lightvalues. Thecompositioncontains asomewhataccurate colourvalue to reflect 3-dimensionality.2The submittedwork appearsslightlyincomplete. Someadditional effortcould have beenincluded: time hasbeen slightlymismanaged.2The artist hasincluded somedetail in the work.2Paintingdemonstratesbalanced areas ofdirectly appliedpaintprogressivelyfrom dark to lightvalues. Thecompositioncontains sufficientand accuratecolour value toreflect 3-dimensionality.3-4The submittedwork appearsmostly complete.Minimal effortadditional effortcould have beenincluded and timehas beenmanaged well.3-4The artist hasincludedsubstantial detail.3-4Paintingdemonstratesexact andbalanced amountsdirectly appliedpaint progressivelyfrom dark to lightvalues. Thecompositioncontains accurateand superiorbalanced colourvalue to reflect 3 –dimensionality.5The submittedwork appearstotally complete.No additional effortcould have beenincluded: time hasbeen managed inan exemplarymanner.5The artist hasincluded exemplarydetail in the work.5/5/5/5/15 Painting Technique: Transparent Evaluation Name:_____________ Application/CreationPaintingTechnique:TransparentProgressive ValueAccuracy:Dark to LightCompletion/NeatnessDetailWork doesnot meetassignmentexpectationsfor thiscategory ofassessment.Incomplete.0Work doesnot meetassignmentexpectationsfor thiscategory ofassessment.Incomplete.0Incomplete.0Paintingdemonstrateslimited areas oftransparentlyapplied paintprogressivelyfrom dark to lightvalues.The compositiondoes not containsufficient oraccurate colourvalue to reflectthreedimensionality.1The submittedwork appearsobviouslyincomplete. Muchmore effort couldhave beenincluded: time hasobviously beenmismanaged.1The artist hasincluded limiteddetail in the work.1Paintingdemonstratessome areas oftransparentlyapplied paintprogressivelyfrom dark to lightvalues. Thecompositioncontains asomewhataccurate colourvalue to reflect 3-dimensionality.2The submittedwork appearsslightlyincomplete. Someadditional effortcould have beenincluded: time hasbeen slightlymismanaged.2The artist hasincluded somedetail in the work.2Paintingdemonstratesbalanced areas oftransparentlyapplied paintprogressivelyfrom dark to lightvalues. Thecompositioncontains sufficientand accuratecolour value toreflect 3-dimensionality.3-4The submittedwork appearsmostly complete.Minimal effortadditional effortcould have beenincluded and timehas beenmanaged well.3-4The artist hasincludedsubstantial detail.3-4Paintingdemonstratesexact andbalanced amountsof transparentlyapplied paintprogressively fromdark to light values.The compositioncontains accurateand superiorbalanced colourvalue to reflect 3 –dimensionality.5The submittedwork appearstotally complete.No additional effortcould have beenincluded: time hasbeen managed inan exemplarymanner.5The artist hasincluded exemplarydetail in the work.5/5/5/5/15 Painting Technique: Scumbling Evaluation Name:_____________ AchievementCriteriaLevel 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4Application/CreationPaintingTechnique:ScumblingProgressive ValueAccuracy:Dark to LightCompletion/NeatnessDetailWork doesnot meetassignmentexpectationsfor thiscategory ofassessment.Incomplete.0Work doesnot meetassignmentexpectationsfor thiscategory ofassessment.Incomplete.0Incomplete.0Paintingdemonstrateslimited areas ofscrubbing motionapplied paint fromdark to lightvalues.The compositiondoes not containsufficient oraccurate colourvalue to reflectthreedimensionality.1The submittedwork appearsobviouslyincomplete. Muchmore effort couldhave beenincluded: time hasobviously beenmismanaged.1The artist hasincluded limiteddetail in the work.1Paintingdemonstratessome areas ofscrubbing motionapplied paint fromdark to lightvalues. Thecompositioncontains asomewhataccurate colourvalue to reflect 3-dimensionality.2The submittedwork appearsslightlyincomplete. Someadditional effortcould have beenincluded: time hasbeen slightlymismanaged.2The artist hasincluded somedetail in the work.2Paintingdemonstratesbalanced areas ofscrubbing motionapplied paint fromdark to lightvalues. Thecompositioncontains sufficientand accuratecolour value toreflect 3-dimensionality.3-4The submittedwork appearsmostly complete.Minimal effortadditional effortcould have beenincluded and timehas beenmanaged well.3-4The artist hasincludedsubstantial detail.3-4Paintingdemonstratesexact andbalanced amountsof scrubbingmotion appliedpaint from dark tolight values. Thecompositioncontains accurateand superiorbalanced colourvalue to reflect 3 –dimensionality.5The submittedwork appearstotally complete.No additional effortcould have beenincluded: time hasbeen managed inan exemplarymanner.5The artist hasincluded exemplarydetail in the work.5/5/5/5/15 A1. The Creative Process: apply the creative process to create a variety of art works, individually and/or collaboratively;A1.2 use exploration/experimentation, reflection, and revision when producing a variety of art works in each of thefollowing areas: drawing, sculpture, painting, and printmaking (e.g., explore a variety of materials and/or techniques;reflect on the input of their peers; refine their art work on the basis of useful feedback)A1.3 document their use of the creative process in a portfolio (e.g., include thumbnail sketches of ideas and/or plans,notes on or examples of the results of experiments with different media or techniques, and copies of their preliminaryand final work toshow evidence of revision and artistic growth), and refer to this portfolio to reflect on how effectively they have used thecreative processA2. The Elements and Principles of Design: apply elements and principles of design to create art works for the purpose of selfexpression and to communicate ideas, information, and/or messages;A2.1 explore elements and principles of design, and apply them to create art works that express personal feelingsand/or communicate emotions to an audience (e.g., explore the use of colour, texture, and/or space to express specificemotions)A2.2 apply elements and principles of design to create art works that communicate ideas and informationA3. Production and Presentation: produce art works, using a variety of media/materials and traditional and/or emergingtechnologies, tools, and techniques, and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of ways of presenting their works and theworks of others.A3.1 explore and experiment with a variety of media/materials and traditional and/or emerging technologies, tools, andtechniques, and apply them to produce art worksA3.3 demonstrate an understanding of some of the ways in which art works can be presented to reach a variety ofaudiencesB1. The Critical Analysis Process: demonstrate an understanding of the critical analysis process by examining, interpreting,evaluating, and reflecting on various art works;B1.4 use a variety of strategies (e.g., peer- and self-assessment, formal and informal critiques, small-group and classdiscussions) to identify and reflect on the qualities of their own art works and the works of others, and evaluate theeffectiveness of these worksC1. Terminology: demonstrate an understanding of, and use correct terminology when referring to, elements, principles, and othercomponents related to visual arts;C1.1 use appropriate terminology when identifying and describing the use of elements and principles of design in theirown art works and the works of othersC1.2 use appropriate vocabulary to describe techniques, materials, and tools when creating and presenting visual artworks (e.g., brayers, conté, frottage, markers, painting techniques, pencil techniques, relief, stencil)C1.3 identify the stages of the creative process and the critical analysis process using appropriate terminologyC2. Conventions and Techniques: demonstrate an understanding of conventions and techniques used in the creation of visual artworks;C2.1 demonstrate an understanding of some techniques that artists use to achieve specific effects (e.g., the use ofcross-hatching to create a feeling of depth and dimension; the use, in watercolour painting, of a transparent wash ofcolour to create the effect of light coming through the composition)C3. Responsible Practices: demonstrate an understanding of responsible practices in visual arts.C3.2 demonstrate safe and conscientious practices associated with the use of materials, tools, and technologies invisual arts (e.g., identify hazardous materials and adopt appropriate precautions and/or protective measures whenusing them; demonstraterespect for property, including classroom facilities, tools, equipment, and technological devices)