Week 4 - Colors and Painting

Color Theory: the whole color wheel deal

• Primary Colors
• red
• blue
• yellow
  

• Secondary Colors (made by mixing 2 primary colors)
• orange
• purple
• green

• Tertiary Colors (made by mixing 1 primary color with 1 secondary color)
• purple/blue
• orange/red
• green/yellow
• etc.....

• Complimentary Colors: colors that are opposite of each other on the Color Wheel
• red & green
• blue & orange
• yellow & purple

• Analogues Colors: colors that are next to each other on the Color Wheel
• purple, purplish blue, blue, bluish green, green (remember the scarf?) etc......
  

*as, things get farther away, the color gets duller (which can be achieved by mixing gray or its compliment)

Painting

• Watercolor Paper: - sized means it has a glue on it that allows the paint to sit on the paper (instead of the paint soaking in)
• weight means thickness of the paper

• Brushes (flat, round, filbert, bright, script, fan, detail, etc..)
• soft: for think paint (like watercolor)
• medium (bristles that 'spring' back when u flick them): for thicker/creamier paint like acrylic
• hard/stiff (bristle brushes) for oils/butter-like paint

• Terms:
• impasto: thick paint
• opaque: NOT see-through
• transparent: see-through
• palette knife: knife-like tool used for spreading thick paint
• solvent: used for diluting paint and cleaning (water for water based like watercolors and acrylics, turpentine or walnut oil for oils)
  

• Watercolor Technique:
• wet on wet
• wet on dry
• dry brush
• graded wash
• masking
• crayon relief
• splattering (using old toothbrush, paint brush, screen, etc)
• texture (using salt, rubbing alcohol, Saran wrap, etc)

MY THOUGHTS
I loved painting. It was so much fun. I never really understood how watercolors worked before. Now I know. and now I can share that with my classroom someday. I especially liked learning all the different techniques that you can do with water color. I would definitely try to teach these techniques in my classroom.

INTEGRATION
It would be pretty easy to integrate painting in the classroom. You could do stuff with the holidays, like paint a pumkin and make a pumpkin poem. OR make a poem about St. Patricks day and paint a picture to go with it. OR you could use the texture technique with the salt and paint a snow scene! As you do different activities you can tie in different water color techniques. You could even talk about complimentary colors.