Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Final Acrylic Painting

Today you will decide if the color scheme you chose last week is the one you want to use for your final painting.
You need to choose from:
Analogous
Triadic
Complementary
Split-Complementary
Square
Reminders:

  • whichever color scheme you choose, you can add black, white or gray to the colors.  
  • it usually works best to choose one of the colors in your color scheme to focus on and then use the other colors for accents.  
Your assignment starts by repeating shapes or lines with the colors in your color scheme.  Don't let your underpainting show, so use lots of layers.  There will be no white paper showing in the end, so you'll need to fill in the background.  I usually do underpainting on the objects and then underpainting and painting on the background--saving the final coat of paint on the objects for last.  Honestly, this is my personal preference.  I think it's easy.  Make your own path.