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Learning Color with The Masters - The Opposite or Complementary Colors


Applying one Layer at the time



Color by color and layer by layer students craft their work.




My student chooses a work from the Masters of the Impressionism and it will go this way:

1. The student prepares the canvas using Gesso to seal and prime the canvas before the oil is applied. The gesso should be tone down, this way the canvas doesn't lose its texture and the oil will run smooth.
Also will protect the canvas from deterioration, the oil will ruin the canvas quite fast if has not been prime.
2. The student draws the artwork carefully, soft lines divide each color and each object, students are not allowed to use a grid, they only find the middle point by drawing an "X"  across the canvas than the drawing. It is very important to learn to look closer, to see the distance and locations correctly, to conquered and own the space and what lives in it. 


 3. Look closer to the color wheel, Student look with caution the colors making note of how many different colors they can see within one color en particular; as they observe and study the blue in the sky they should see for all the colors the artist used in the process of making the sky. This way starting by selecting the very opposite to the color they see is how the experience of the color begins. Every color has an opposite color or what is call "complementaries." 
After the opposite color is applied the following layers will be done using the final color of that specific location. For example; when working the blue of the sky, the initial color is to be an orange, the hue of that orange will be selected depending on the hue of the blue the student is looking for. Every layer applied after orange will be blue and each layer has to be mixed with the correct kind of lince oil until the color starts to show. This technique needs time, patience, and a touch of love.
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Noticed that black and white are the last because they are not colors and if used they will change the hue of the colors radically making it very difficult to manipulate and create the richness and the force colors are to have. To light or dark colors use linseed oil or the colors yellow and blue respectively. 


They learn and understand the oil painting process and pigments to be used.  Students have a variety of bound oil to choose from. Before starting the final piece a second little canvas will be ready to be the proof and testing for oils, colors, and brushes.


Different oils to be texted
·         
      poppyseed oil
 walnut oil
    safflower oil
 linseed oil


To feel and understand that differents oils allow for different drying, textures, and finishings it is a fundamental part of students' success.

Brushes




During the art experience, students go through many different brushes that will facilitate every stroke, every feeling, and detail of colors and objects. When crafting the blue of the water, or the blue of the sky brushes will make as well colors the great difference.  Brushes are short, long, hard, soft, and different types of materials determining this way the intention of each stroke.
Students will learn to:
  1. Noticing Deeply - by identify and see closer
  2. Embodying - Students will experience their own art through their emotions
  3. Making Connections - From the original piece of art to its own
  4. Exhibit Empathy - By learning how to give and take feedback
  5. Questioning - Asking open and confidently about the learning experience, their perception and observations about the technique, and very important, students learn to co-learn and co-teach.
  6. Reflecting/Assessing - During process and presentation, the student identifies and understands others and their own work. 


Questions, opinions, email me at afrancoteachingartist@gmail.com


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