Painting

Painting is an easy activity to coordinate in the classroom.

We started by exploring how to make colours using the three primary colours, red, blue and yellow. Orange is acheived by mixing yellow and red, purple by mixing red and blue and green by mixing blue and yellow. Mixing everything together produces brown.

The hues of colours can be manipulated by adding black or white. Adding white creates a tint, where lightness is increased. Adding black produces a shade of a colour and decreses light.

We then created a painting as a group that included all the colours (first image). Next we experiemented individually by painting with complementary colours (red and green, yellow and purple, blue and orange). We explored warm colours (red, orange, yellow) and cool colours (blue, green, purple).

Here are some excellent resources:
http://www.opusframing.com/how/handouts
How to handouts on all kinds of mediums.

http://www.artjunction.org/encounters_painting.php
Discusses preparing to paint, types of paint and what to paint.

Lawren Harris' Mount Lefroy

Georgia O'Keefe's Hibiscus with Plumeria

Jackson Pollack's Galaxy

Colour Wheel