Tag Archives: Acrylic Painting
Oaxacan-Style Paintings
At the conclusion of the Art 1 unit on Color Theory, students were introduced to the colorful and whimsical sculptures of Oaxaca, Mexico. In response, they created acrylic paintings in the style of the sculptures.
Sculptural Paintings
Students were challenged to create an acrylic painting that was also a relief sculpture. They sketched their design on a canvas panel (gridding, if necessary) and built up areas with mat board covered with a layer of papier-mache’ before starting … Continue reading
Acrylic Paintings – Hudson River School Theme
High school Art students created landscape paintings in acrylic, featuring scenes from the school’s campus. They were encouraged to use their own photographs as reference. The art history connection with this unit included a study of Hudson River School artists, … Continue reading
Monochromatic Paintings with a Technological Twist
For this project, students use the cutout filter (Filter > Artistic > Cutout) in Adobe Photoshop to alter and abstract a reference photograph. While the cutout levels do not accurately correspond to the actual number of values in the altered … Continue reading