Project 2 Directions
Your general project objective is to create a large acrylic painting that meets the following criteria:
1. demonstrates skill in lightening and darkening colors
2. demonstrates skill in stretching a canvas
3. includes a wet-in-wet or wet-in-dry technique(s) within some area of the composition
4. demonstrates skill in acrylic shading and tinting
5. meets the requirements of one of the project's art theme options
6. will be of a complex enough idea and layout to consume 7 to 8 class periods (80 minutes each class period/10.5 hours of
work will be devoted to this work from the idea and skill improvement stage to the reflection writing and artist statement
essay)
7. demonstrates skill in construction of handmade canvas
8. demonstrates ability to completely fill up the composition (good use of artistic space)
9. complete essential art skills #1 thru #3 BEFORE you begin your work (Skill #4 is a Mid-point Eval) and (Skill #5 is a Reflection)
1. demonstrates skill in lightening and darkening colors
2. demonstrates skill in stretching a canvas
3. includes a wet-in-wet or wet-in-dry technique(s) within some area of the composition
4. demonstrates skill in acrylic shading and tinting
5. meets the requirements of one of the project's art theme options
6. will be of a complex enough idea and layout to consume 7 to 8 class periods (80 minutes each class period/10.5 hours of
work will be devoted to this work from the idea and skill improvement stage to the reflection writing and artist statement
essay)
7. demonstrates skill in construction of handmade canvas
8. demonstrates ability to completely fill up the composition (good use of artistic space)
9. complete essential art skills #1 thru #3 BEFORE you begin your work (Skill #4 is a Mid-point Eval) and (Skill #5 is a Reflection)
Example Acrylic Paintings
THEME OF WORK: Imaginative Perspective
THEME OF WORK: Nature and Animals
THEME OF WORK: Objects of Groupings of Objects
THEME OF WORK: Human Figure
THEME OF WORK: Architecture