25 really, really cool painting tricks to get you started! |
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to try out painting, you need:
paint, paper, brush
the 3 main paints in our art studio...
watercolor
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tempera
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acrylic
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things to think about as you paint...
color&valueROYGBV/ Primary/ Secondary/ Warm/ Cool/ Complimentary/ Analogous/ Light/ Dark/ Tint/ Shade
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line&edgeDiagonal/ Vertical/ Horizontal/ Wavy/ Curvy/ ZigZag/ Straight/ Hard/Soft
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textureActual Texture/ Implied Texture/ Bumpy/ Smooth/ Rough/ Soft/ Hard
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shape/space/formGeometric/ Organic/ Square/ Circle/ Rectangle/ Triangle/ Positive/ Negative/ Overlapping/ Spaced/ Sphere/ Cube/ Pyramid/ Cylinder
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Vincent Van Gogh used TEXTURE in his paintings.
'Starry Night' is a good example of the visual effects created by texture. |
here are 12 different ways to add texture to your painting |
Starry Night, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh
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(a few) painting styles
realism
Ville D'Avray, Camille Carot
1870's
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1900's expressionism
Mulberry Tree, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh
1910's cubism
The Flowering Tree, 1912, Piet Mondrian
1930's surrealism
Swans Reflecting Elephants, Salvador Dali
1960's modernist/minimalist
The Tree, 2003, Ibrahim El-Salahi
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Jen Stark/ america/ b. 1983/ paper sculptureJen Stark is a California-based paper artist who is celebrated for her use of colorful papers to create hypnotic sculptures that are based on nature, topography and organic forms.
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Jen Stark in her studio
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try creating your own paper sculpture in the style of paper artist, jen stark...
This video lesson was created by Blick Art. For more awesome art lessons from Blick, visit HERE
here are some more artists whose famous works have been created using paper as an art medium...
MATTHER SCHLIAN/ america/ artist/ scientist
Li Hongbo/ china/b.1974brian detmer |
Elsa Mora/ cuba/ b.1971
Oblivious, c2018, paper & glue Elsa Mora www.elsamora.net
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Paper collage
Watch famous collage artist, MarcPaperScissor talk about his process for creating 2-Dimensional paper art