Mood and painting with pastels and chalks

What

Mood and painting with pastels and chalks

When

2/1/2019, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Mood Chalk Painting read page 104- 105)
Suggested pages READ : art book “Exporing Art” page 119 Impressionism. Page 78 Style; Page 182 An Example of water with colors.
Goals:
We learn how to : painting with Emotions. Mood, or Impression.
We learn to use pastels to create a seascape with a few boats
We use perspective to create a distance
We learn to analyze a painting after we finish
The painting technique of French Impressionists as Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, is unmistakable. After observing the works of these artists, with the students of the Year 9, we tried to reinterpret the photo of a landscape in the Impressionist style. Before we drew the main lines of the landscape on a sheet, avoiding details and particulars. Then we filled the areas outlined with backgrounds of solid colors in tempera paints. Above these colors we have subsequently painted small brushstrokes juxtaposed with each other, trying to imitate the colors of the photo. Here are the results, can we really call them “Impressionist works”!
Is it possible that a landscape can trigger our emotions?
Facing a real landscape, photographed or painted, we can experience different moods that inspire our deeper feelings. Romantic painters such as Friedrich and Turner, who exploit the emotional potential of the landscape, make it the true protagonist of their works. Their landscapes always send a strong and intense emotion and we tried to match emotion and landscape as well.
Procedure :
Copying them from pictures we’ve found online.
The ocean or seascape have been chosen by trying to select spectacular and dramatic natural phenomena, in order to emphasize the intensity of sensations.
My advice to paint a landscape with chalk or pastels , also observe photography very closely and to consider the landscape as a composition of dark and clear spots. After tracing the landscape’s main lines on a sheet, it begins by using pastels the lighter colors leaving white spaces in areas of greater brightness (without using white color but using white paper!). Once the light colors are dry, add the dark colors, superimposing them. The main quality of pastels is allows to overlay many layers of color and to spread colors together like water, creating very natural effects in seascape elements such as clouds, sea, and sky.

Extention : What I can do different …. Sdd a moon, add a clouds, add a sun , add a figure !
Once the landscape is finished, we have superimposed the silhouette of a human figure, imitating the backlit figures that we find in Friedrich’ works. We used the charcoal card to trace the silhouette on the landscape and then we painted the figure with black acrylic paint.