How We Create a Painting with a Strong Composition and Effective Color Harmony – Final Painting Lesson

Introduction

Now that you have completed the practice work, you are ready to plan the composition for your painting and begin painting. Have fun with this part. The more you put into the initial collage, the more you will like the finished outcome. Feel free to use old sketches or other random materials for your collage. Just continue to develop it with strong composition techniques in mind.

Explore

Color Theory: Final Painting

Please watch the presentation below to learn more about your final painting.

Process of Setting Up

It is now time to watch the Process of Setting Up video. Take notes as you watch the video and reach out to your instructor with any questions.

In this video, we go through the process of setting up the collage and to begin the painting. We go through the process of drawing a value sketch of the plan for the painting. We discuss the process of picking colors and how to begin the painting.

Extension

Painting Extension

To create a challenge for this painting, you are welcome to add more detail, shading, fabric, and/ or hands and faces. Start with how you create your collage. Adding more personal items or creating content about a social issue you are passionate about.

The painting can always be made more intricate and complicated. Taking the time to push yourself to make a more complicated work will give you a product that can shine in a portfolio.

How did you expand your painting? What did you add to your process to give it more impact through its content?

Abstract painting of a blue and orange jet fighter with a mirrored reflection or shadow below it. Sketch of a house on a hill with a person on the roof holding a string tied to a large flying dragonfly.

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