new COLOR grid-

Break out the new tubes and lets get into COLOR!

COLOR PORTRAIT GRADE SHEET

Here's the grade sheet for the color self portraits-

Look for postings of the kid's paintings coming soon!

DUANE KEISER- practice makes amazing!

Just found Keiser's bogs and noticed he produced a painting EVERY day for a year!!! The result of all that work is his increadible control of: color, brush marks and lighting effects.

Look how he used simple colors (ochres, browns, ultra blue, white) to produce these LUMINOUS paintings!

See more of his work here...

See his work in progress here...

And his painting blog here...

OD NERDRUM is an odd master...

His talent is IMMENSE, his work can be shocking (but then, our world is too). Take a look at this master artist's paintings and you can pick up some wonderful ideas on using light, limited colors, and composition.

Keep an open mind, and consider that Nerdrum likes to make paintings that respond to our struggles as humans....

See much more of his work here...

And some cool notes about HOW he paints here...

Starting With Color

Here's a copy of our COLOR VOCAB SHEET and COLOR WHEEL.... We will us these terms and color relationships in talking about our work.

SARGENT's clever use of brushstrokes...

John S. Sargent, (1856 -1925) an American portrait painter, is known for his increadible control and use of brush strokes. His paintings look smooth, elegant and REAL- but are constructed of large shapes of color....look closely at the paintings to see the pattern of brushmarks used to create the image.

See more of his work here....

REMBRANDT's self portraits

Long considered the MASTER of portraits, Rembrandt has a lot to show us...

look how he lets the shadows swallow up details...

look how the background changes to push the subject forward (with contrast)

look how the light is from one side only...

See more of his work here...