Winter Landscapes

Grade 8 Art Students have been practicing working with Acrylic paints.  They researched different acrylic painting techniques, practiced colour mixing and created a Chromatic Black value scale before being unleashed on this project.  Students were asked to draw a winter landscape that incorporated contrasting values of dark and light.  To create the dark values (or blacks)  students used Chromatic Black.  Chromatic Black is used to add dimension to a painting, and is much more interesting that the flat black that comes out of a tube.  To create our Chromatic Black we used equal parts of Permanent Deep Green, Ultramarine and Crimson.

8HOC/BRAY was continuing with this assignment this morning: