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Teaching: Painting–Combining Color Theory and Brush Strokes

Teaching Middle School Students to Paint This project is far more advanced than the “basic blue brushstroke” exercises that I previously posted, but it builds upon them. Materials: I like Blick student...

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Teaching Color and Discovering a Mystery

http://www.clivemaxfield.com/diycalculator/imgs/console-08 Beginning with the experiments of Sir Isaac Newton in 1665, we began to understand that color is in light. That is to say, white light is made...

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Teaching Color 2: The Color Clock

Student prepared Color Clock Most of my formal art training took place with a German master in Wiesbaden. I learned a great deal about different mediums and techniques, but not much about color. When I...

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Teaching Color 3: Tertiaries

Student prepared Color Clock In my last post I was telling you about my struggles to use color effectively in my painting. To overcome the challenge I developed four disciplines: First, I adapted the...

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Teaching Color: Who Cares? So What?

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Teaching Color 4: Color Mixing Disciplines

http://topwalls.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Wallpaper-Circles-Color-Light.jpg In my recent posts I have been sharing the disciplines I impose upon myself and my students to assure an effective use...

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Teaching Painting: Yellow and Violet

Student Painting in Complimentary Set of Yellow and Violet I’ve shared several posts describing my efforts to teach my middle school students color theory and skill with using a brush. The next step...

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Teaching Painting: Blue and Orange

Student painting in cool blue and orange After teaching my middle school students color theory and skill with using a brush I ask them to accomplish three projects each using one of the complimentary...

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Teaching Painting: Red and Green

Student project painted with complimentary colors of red and green For the last several posts I have been sharing how I teach my middle school students to build a palette around the complimentary sets...

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Teaching Painting: Expanding the Complimentary Palette

Student painting with expanded red and green complimentary set. I have been sharing how I teach my middle school students to build a palette around the complimentary sets (yellow/violet, blue/orange,...

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