Learning more about painting ◦What do you know about the word landscape? What is the difference between landscape and seascape? Write as many words as you can that are related with the word “landscape”. Colorful ◦There are places in a community that are naturally beautiful. These places are located near lakes, rivers, seas, mountains, hills, caves, or waterfalls. ◦People love to gather in those places. Some of those places are flocked by tourists. ◦Our country is no doubt beautiful. It has many scenic landscapes and seascapes. It has varied terrains of green mountains and hills. ◦It is also rich in vast plains of fertile brown land, and wide, long stretches of lakes and rivers that end up in our blue seas. Different art styles in painting landscapes or significant places ◦Artist vary in their art styles in landscape painting. There are artist who painted the actual shapes and colors of a scenery as they see them. This style is called Realistic painting. ◦There are also artists who use cubes to form the shapes of the scenery. They are called cubists. ◦The artists’ choice of subject is the same. The subjects are under the same range of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. The main subject is shown in a wide view. The art elements are arranged into a clear and understandable composition. The sky is almost always included in the view and weather is often an element of the composition. ◦Artists create landscape especially the scene which is near to his or her heart- his or her home town. PAINTING – Is a picture made with coloring materials like paints. With the use of a brush and paints, an artist creates images on a surface. The image is an expression of the artist’s emotions. This surface could be paper, canvas, and wood panels. ELEMENTS OF ARTS ◦There are visual techniques that artists apply to convey a certain idea, impression, or feeling. These techniques also help to emphasize depth in painting a landscape. Artists use some elements of art called value and texture. ◦Tone is the tonal relationship between light and dark areas in painting. It is also referred to as value. ◦Values and intensity of colors create “mood”. Contrasting light and dark hues together produces a sensation of vitality and directness. This is often the atmosphere seen in restaurants and entertainment houses. ◦Colors in low intensities produce calm and response. This is a kind of surrounding favored by hospitals and charitable buildings. ◦Colors have the ability to arouse sensations of pleasures and pain. Varying tones of green shades and of yellow oranges like the ones shown in the rural scenes of Fernando Amorsolo’s landscapes enhance a pleasant feeling. Too much dark shades evoke feelings of sadness, fear, rage and other dark or negative feelings. ◦Balance and proportion in size and shapes also establish the foreground, middle ground, and background. This technique emphasizes depth in painting a landscape HARMONY ◦Is the combination of colors that can go together. Color harmony is grouped into related color harmonies and contrasting color harmonies. Complementary Colors ◦They consist of two colors that lie directly opposite each other in the color wheel. For example, red and green, orange and blue; and yellow and violet. Color Harmonies ◦Monochromatic Harmony – It involves one color and its tint is lighter and shade is darker. ◦Analogous Harmony – It is a combination of three colors lying side by side in the color wheel. Contrasting Color Harmonies ◦Complementary Harmony – It consists of two colors which lie directly opposite each other in the color wheel. ◦Double Complementary Harmony – It consists of two colors directly opposite their complements placed in the color wheel. ◦Split Complementary Harmony – It is a combination of a primary or secondary color together with two colors immediately next to its complement. ◦Triad Harmony – It is a combination of three colors which lie in equal distances from each other in the color wheel. ◦A. Primary triad – blue, red, yellow ◦B. Secondary triad – orange, green, violet ◦C. Intermediate triad – yellow, green, yellow orange, red orange, red violet, blue violet, blue green. Art Activity #1- Finger Painting ◦Materials: chip board, acrylic paint, pencil ◦Procedures: Ona ¼ chipboard, make an outline of the landscape on the right. Then, copy it using your finger dipped in acrylic paint. Be sure the color you used is thick. The sky and the lake should be painted first followed by the mountains, the greenery, and the tree. Brush strokes should be used only for tree truck, branches and the boat. Art Activity #2-Blue, Blue, the World is Blue!
◦Look through magazines and cut out
pictures of boats and ships. Take a white chart paper and color it with blue water color to show a lake, river, etc. Paste the cut-out pictures of boat and shapes on the blue chart paper. Art Activity # 3 – Painting Exhibit ◦Each of you will exhibit your painting of the sea or any other body of water in your community in the art gallery of your class. ◦Cooperate with the class as you enjoy this activity. ◦Exhibit your work in the art gallery. ◦Be proud of your work. Celebrate your uniqueness. Art Activity #4-Heated Crayon and Watercolor Design. ◦Materials: Crayon, Oslo paper, and candle ◦Procedures: ◦1. Sketch a design on an oslo paper ◦2. Heat the tip of a crayon over a candle flame until it is soft, then rub it to color your design. Your teacher will guide you to do this part. ◦Coloring with different colors of crayon, paint watercolor over the whole picture. All parts where crayons are used will resist watercolor.