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Key Learning
Paint
Paint is applied using less water than in the
transparent technique. Mixing white with a color tends
to make it opaque. Not all colors, even though
they are in the same medium, are equally opaque.
Shape
Paint may be applied very flatly so that
little evidence of the brushstrokes is seen. There may be no
change of color within shapes, and shapes may
be clearly defined or separated from other areas. On the
other hand, a variety of colors may be seen
within a shape. Brush strokes may be quite evident. Blending
may be fuzzy as opposed to clearly separated.
and shape boundaries may be irregular. Paint may be
applied on top of wet or dry paint.
Materials
! tempera
! brushes
! palette
! water
container
! paper
towels or rags
! paper
Motivation
Visuals
PA 10, PA 11, PA 12, PA 13. After studying
each slide individually, compare them in terms of
opacity and variety of paint applications.
Within each painting how do colors help define shapes? How is
the paint applied to the surface in each of
these?
Experimenting
To learn about opacity and paint application,
try the following:
a) Test a variety of colors for their covering
power (opacity) on a colored background. Try
combining white with some of the colors to see
if it increases their opacity.
b) Make a design with large simple shapes
where the paint is applied flatly and no brushstrokes are
evident.
c) Make a design with large simple shapes
where the edges are soft and blurry and shapes run into
one another.
Suggested Theme
An abstraction of a designed object or a still
life could be interesting. Students would work to reduce
the forms to simple hard-edged geometric
shapes or to simple soft-edged organic shapes.
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