Help me give my students Acrylic Painting Supplies so students can learn to MOVE paint around a CANVAS with confidence. This boosts readiness for Advanced Painting classes as well as give more college and Contemporary Arts ready paintings!
Currently, I am teaching tenth grade students who are creating powerful works of visual art by investigating dynamic compositions through the basic languages such as shapes, space, overlap, movement - all the elements and principles of art. This spring, we are studying the complex colors and application of medium of acrylic paints.
We are learning to create potent content through various imagery juxtaposition and to ultimately question the intents and process of making art by transforming materials through techniques.
Laguardia High School is a specialized high school in the heart of New York City servicing students from all five boroughs and all family backgrounds. It is a haven for artistic minded students as well as a powerhouse for helping future artists achieve their college and career goals.
My Project
Students have been learning to mix complex colors with acrylic colors and to unify their compositions through visual weight elements but also with dynamic color relationships and movement throughout. We start to paint using a ground color that helps to solidify the mood of the painting, as well as act as a layer that compliments the colors that will be applied on top or by contrasting and making a shocking vibration.
By applying paints as viscous impasto or delicate glazes, using energetic and vibrant brush strokes helps to convey a sense of the artist's perception of the subject matter.
Students are learning to paint by trusting in their innate aesthetic abilities rather than through creating a perfect replication of a photographic image, in much the same way that contemporary artists now are creating artworks to question and investigate the reasons why we make art.
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