Basics are used to introduce new skills, mediums, techniques, and concepts.  Basics will be done before each project that introduces a new concept.  

Quarter 1

Watercolor Basics 

Elements: Color, Texture, Value

1. 5 step value scales: 
5 x 14 1 inch boxes
BB (brown and blue), Black, YG, G, BG, B, BV, V, RV, R, RO, O, YO, Y

2. Compliments:
3 x 7 1 inch boxes
Warms (yellow, orange and red) across from cools (purple, blue, green)

​3.  12 3x5 boxes: Label boxes with technique. 
Wet on Dry Techniques: ....................................................................................................................... Recap Video - combining techniques.  Start at 4:15

​4.  Sketch and paint a tree using 3 techniques from above.  

Quarter 2

Acrylic Follow Along:  Teaches tools, techniques, medium and basic landscape painting.
Paint a landscape, step by step, with the teacher in class.... difficult to make up if missed.

Quarter 3

​Oil Pastel Basics

9 step value scale
smooth sphere
stipple sphere

Colored Pencil Basics

Quarter 4

​Color Matching Basics

Color matching exercise.
Students use the primary colors and white to mix the exact brown of cardboard.
Less is more :-)  
10 step value scales.  
Less is more :-)  
Use black to darken blue.  
Blue starts on the third step
Use Brown to darken red and yellow.  
Red starts on the 4th step.  
​Yellow starts on the 5th step.