After explaining the different watercolour techniques (wet-in-wet, wash, dry brush,
rubbing alcohol, salt, scraping, etc.), the students will freely practicepainting with the watercolours.
Once they have a good understanding of all the possibilities that
watercolor can create, they will create their own Lanscape:
They will paint the DIN A3 paper with the watercolours to represent
textured parts of a landscape.
Each students will paint between 2-3 sheets of paper. We recomend that they paint one with cold colours and the other one with warm colours.
They will torn strips of paper to create mountains, sky, lakes, etc.
Josef Albers' book Interaction of Colour (1970) is widely influential. Albers claims that colours react when they are next to another colour. We should never consider the characteristics of a colour as absolute, but always relating to the enviroment.
One page from Interaction of Colour.
Contrast can be defined as “the difference in visual properties that
makes an object (or its representation in an image) distinguishable from
other objects and the background.” In plain English that could be
described at its most basic level as “things which look different from
one another”. (Love of graphics)
What happens when we change the colours of a drawing. Do we still get the same feeling?
These are the real colours.
Any colour you want.
Colours from the same spectrum.
EXPRESSIONISM(Germany, 1905-1933)
Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as
a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly
discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of
authenticity and spirituality.
The arrival of Expressionism announced new standards in the creation and judgment of art. Art was now meant to come forth from within
the artist, rather than from a depiction of the external visual world,
and the standard for assessing the quality of a work of art became the
character of the artist's feelings rather than an analysis of the
composition.
Expressionist
artists often employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed
brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects. These techniques were
meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the
anxieties of the modern world.
Drei Pferde, Franz Marc. 1912
Fränzi in front of carved chair, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner. 1910
Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. His highly
individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively (...) He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus
school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor
and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and
beliefs, and his musicality. (Wikipedia)
We will work with basic shapes and colours as Paul Klee did.
Draw and cut out a basic shape in different sizes.
Paint with tempera both sides of the shape.
Glue them and put a string.
Decorate the class with all of them.
These are the students' artworks. They look nicer when hunged from the ceiling.
Draw any picture you like and, afterwards, divide the paper in three equal parts. Each part will be coloured with one of the Complementary colours couple:
This fun and attractive application runs us through the colors, their
possible combinations, its connotations and symbolism in the everyday
life, and thus allows students to reflect and do with critical spirit
which implies the use of one or another colour in our environment. It is also presented in a very attractive way.
Maybe the vocabulary it is complicated for a 7th grade student (1r d'ESO), but the application is quite interesting. Check it out!!!
