Impressionism Camouflage

Objectives: 

• Create a value chart in ten steps creating tints and shades of all primary and secondary colors.
  
• Create a value chart using a complementary set in ten steps.
  
• Learn how to mix colors to create a chosen value, hue and intensity.
  
• Learn how to dull and darken colors by mixing complements.
  
• Gain experience using various brush strokes and paint application techniques used by Impressionists.

Instructions:

• Select an image from the "masters" of Impressionism of a landscape. It must include background, middle ground and foreground.
  
• Print the image
  
• Cut a strip of the image that shows the field of depth
  
• Mount the strip onto the canvas board with gel medium ( be sure to get all of the air bubbles out and make entirely smoothly surface)
  
• Create an underpainting with a thin layer of paint that completes the composition
  
• Apply paint and colors in a variety of ways illustrating the field of depth in the picture
  
• Create a broad range of values by mixing colors and applying complimentary colors in close proximity
  

Materials:
8" x 10" canvas board
Acrylic paints
brushes
water cups
paint palettes

• http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/high/Pam-Color.htm