A3: Mondrian Painting
A3: Mondrian Painting OVERVIEW: AIMS: • The aim of the project is to allow students to further develop their prior knowledge of colour theory, by applying their experience and knowledge gained from the project 'Colour Theory'. • During this project/assignment you will investigate and learn about 'Abstraction' by learning about some of the techniques employed by the 'father of abstraction' - Piet Mondrian. DEVELOPMENT: • Through a series of drawing tasks, you will develop your 'hand to eye' accuracy and coordination, and also practice skills such as: Line, Tone, Shade, Mark-Making and application of paint with accuracy/ effect. OUTCOME(s): Throughout the project the skills learnt and developed will help you create your 'Final Outcome', which is: • A3: Large (A3 - size) painting, based on their own development studies and work, produced in the style of Piet Mondrian.
A3: Mondrian Painting Prior to starting this assignment you should have completed previous tasks and work which are: 1. The Flowering Apple Tree abstraction process 2. Observational drawing of an unusual view-point 3. Pencil study of your selected area (taken from your observational drawing) 4. A prep (practice) painting of your intended Mondrian style painting. Setting up: Collect a sheet of A3 (size) paper and draw a 1cm border around the edge of the paper. Inside of which write the title of this work (A3: Mondrian Painting) at the top, your full name in the bottom left corner and your class/group name in the bottom right corner. Sketching out: Start your work by 'lightly' sketching the outline of your work. Look carefully at your 'prep' work and aim to map-out your planned work as carefully as possible. When sketching, do not press to hard with your pencil. When all of your work is mapped-out, you are ready for the next stage/ step. Drawing: Ensure your pencil is 'SHARP'. Keep your pencil sharp throughout this step, and sharpen it often. Your line should be strong and thin, if your pencil becomes blunt, your line will suffer. Directly on top of your previous sketchy line, draw a neat accurate line. To do this keep your pencil in contact with the surface of the paper, turn the point of your pencil occasionally to ensure that you are always drawing with the sharpest edge of the pencil tip/ point. Drawing should be one continuous movement/ action. Refine: With your newly added pencil line on top of your sketch, it is time to refine your work further by using a clean rubber/ eraser. Remove your previous sketchy line using the clean rubber, if you have followed the previous steps, then your sketchy line should vanish leaving behind your stronger, neater line. Before you begin the next step, ensure that your accurate line is not too heavy, as you don't want it to come through the paint.
Painting: • Consider using the painting skills learnt during the previous project (Advanced Colour Theory): ◦ Priming the page/ surface area ◦ Working from light to dark ◦ Loading your brush with a strong amount of pigment/ paint. ◦ Keeping your brush strokes in the same direction ◦ Turning your work around so that you can accurately paint towards the edge of your outline
Paint the lightest colours first, in this case that should be Yellow, and work with one colour at a time. For example identify all the areas of your work that will painted with Yellow, and paint all of these places first, at the same time. Repeat the painting process until you have painted all three colours (Yellow, Red, Blue). • You may need to then return to each of the coloured sections of your work and paint a further coat/ application so that the strength of the colours is strong and bold. Painting multiple layers of paint can also help hide any messy brushwork. • When all of the coloured areas have received a strong amount of paint you are then ready to paint the thick, bold, black lines on your work. Do this very carefully, take your time, and if needed •
practice on a spare piece of paper before you attempt to this directly on your work. • Follow the same principles as above, keeping your brush in constant contact with your paper/ surface.
A3: Mondrian Painting Do you have a smart phone? If so you can use the camera on your phone to access online resources to help you with this assignment. All you need is a QR code reader app, point your phone web browser to one of readers below: • • • • •
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Once you have a reader/ app on your smart phone. Simply take a quick snap of the code(s) below, and you will be redirected to the required resource, directly on your phone.
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