Intro to Painting
Assignment 4
Organic and Geometric Painting with Analogous color scheme
Analogous Colors that are closely related in hue. They are typically adjacent to other on the color wheel.
Analogous colors create harmony in a painting.
Image 1: create colors scales with four analogous colors. Please use water color paper for these color
scales and mount them in sketch book. See examples below.
Image 2: Create a painting incorporating analogous acrylic washes. Use organic and geometric shapes as
the subject. Include a variety of light valued colors (tints) and dark valued colors (shapes) into the painting.
Student example:
Painting tips:
1. Work from lighter colors to darker colors! Paint your darker colors last.
2. Use the white of paper for your high lights!
3. Thin acrylics paints with water and or acrylic medium to create transparent washes.
4. How will you use, horizontal, vertical and diagonal directional lines, edges and or shapes?
Materials: acrylic paint (four adjacent colors on the color wheel), cold press water color paper 14” x 17”,
paint brushes (nylon hair), pencil, liquid frisket
For your sketch book:
a. Create two pencil studies before you start painting.
Is it necessary to plan a painting in thorough detail before you start, or should you let it develop as you go
along? Planning a painting can be a help as you know exactly what you're going to do, but it could also
inhibit spontaneity. Letting a painting evolve as you work is very free and lets you be spontaneous, but also
leaves you open to the possibility that the painting won't go anywhere and you'll end up with a mess.
Ultimately the degree to which you plan out a painting depends on your personality; some people find it
essential and others a hindrance. But regardless of how detailed you like to plan (or not), there are
numerous decisions that have to be made before you to start to paint.
b. Take a 4” x 6 “digital image of the final painting and place into the sketch book. Make sure your digital
image is in focus, squared off and color and value are comparable to original painting.
c. Describe your painting in a typed paragraph and place into your sketch book. You will make
observations about what you see. You have to be objective. For this part please make no inferences or
express opinions. You are going to create a list of what you see. List only the facts about the artwork and
write a paragraph base on this list:
Subject matter: landscape, nature objects
Medium: acrylic, pencil or mixed media
Style: hard edge, realistic, stylize, abstracted/simplified
Technique: transparent, painterly, combination, etc.
d. Analyze your painting in a typed paragraph and place into your sketch book.
Student Examples: