Color Theory Portrait: Acrylic Painting Lesson - High School Visual Art
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00So your painting students have learned basic shading techniques and a little about color schemes, but haven't applied those skills to a final project. What you are looking for is a bright, challenging but achievable project for those students to conquer. This color theory acrylic portrait is the solution and will lead to striking results.
Why students will love it:
Teens will love it because the lesson breaks the portrait down into sections making it easier for them to apply shading skills. It essentially shuts off the right side of the brain allowing students to see shapes and lines instead of symbols of a face.
Why teachers will love it:
It builds your student confidence and results in bright and visually interesting portraits to display. With step-by-step instructions, a full timeline, and lesson plan it will be easy to teach. It is a perfect bridge to more advanced acrylic painting.
Included:
- 5 Page lesson plan (Word & PDF) with National standards, big ideas, objectives, final outcomes, resource links, and a detailed timeline with process notes
- 30 Page PowerPoint Presentation (pptx & PDF)
- Tints & Shades Worksheet
- Student Checklist
- Student Self-Evaluation
- Classroom Critique Worksheet
Materials:
- Acrylic Paint in a variety of colors (minimum of red, yellow, blue, white and black.) It’s best to have 2 of each of the red, yellow and blue each with a bias toward the opposite secondary color.
- Acrylic Paint brushes, synthetic bristles in a variety of sizes.
- Water cups
- Small pieces of canvas for value scales
- Canvas, cut 1 inch larger than size of printed portrait or stretched canvas to exact size
- Pencils/erasers and drawing paper
- Hard surface to tape canvas
- Blue masking tape
- Ruler: A graphic ruler works best. They are clear and lined so that the students can see through them to create a grid. This is the kind that I use:
- o Westcott Transparent Pica Rule
- o The inches are in the center. Use the lines to create a grid.
Key Learning:
- To create a portrait using acrylic paint.
- To understand color theory, tints, and shades.
- Learn to identify value shifts in a photograph and replicate them in paint
- To create a portrait using acrylic paint.
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