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Abstracted Landscape Assignment
The ultimate goal of this assignment is to create an abstracted landscape by first building up a solid under painting, and then adding medium and light values over it. We will be using gel medium to extend the acrylic paint medium and create transparent layers which allow for the subtle and gradual establishing of value. Each positive or negative shape within the composition must transitional in value creating a play of light on the painting surface. The art elements emphasized in this lesson are brush stroke texture, color, space, and shape.







Abstracting Forms

10 - Thumbnail sketches

This exercise is designed to help you learn
to abstract from what you see and know to exist in the real world. You will be working together from a variety of projected images, begin by looking at the shapes the negative space make – work from the foreground to the background. You may add large areas of darker value, neutralized color to help establish your shapes.
 
Practicing Brush Strokes

Create a brush stroke sampler on illustration board – each sampler must be unique
Establish a dark underpainting value

Use a distinct brush stroke to create a tightly packed texture – work to shape edges

Tints – use white to create tints (thus producing a range of values and a play of light

A distinct color harmony: Analogous, monochromatic, complementary, triad




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