8 Week Color & Design Workshop

COLOR ME CREATIVE!

The dual focus of this painting/mixed media course is to encourage students' creativity while developing their understanding of the three properties of color: hue, value, and intensity. The manner in which color is used to build strong composition and assist in creating the illusion of three dimensions within a two dimensional picture plane is emphasized. Students will learn that red, yellow, and blue are required in order to make every color we see around us. Learning how to make those “mystery” colors, such as brick red, wheat, sand at the beach, the dusky blue-green of a distant mountain (all without using black!) increases a child's vocabulary “ready made” bottles of tempera paint found in the classroom and opens their eyes to the richness and subtle color distinctions in the world around us. Since we cannot build a strong painting with color alone, projects will simultaneously introduce and explore the art elements of line, shape, texture, and value as well as the principles of design. Masterworks are used to illustrate these concepts. Projects are designed to provide students of ll ability levels with enough information to feel successful and enough freedom to entice their own unique and inherent creativity to emerge.

Space/Materials reguired:

Regular classroom with access to water and chalkboard. Paint, shirts, paintbrushes. Tempera paint and glue sticks. All other materials provided.