Animal Paintings Completed

Students completed their paintings of animals and these are two samples I did in acrylic using my own pet's photographs.  My lovely teenage daughter is quite the photographer, so I had some great photos to work with for our cat, Buddy, and chihuahua, Baby.

Here are the student's work...pretty amazing and look like a photo!

Painting Animals

Semi-private students are working on painting animals, pets in some cases.  They are using acrylic paints and working from photos.  Some took 2- 2hour classes to complete and others will take 3- 2 hour classes.  They are really learning to see the values and add texture with paint.

One of my examples...my dog, Mandy

Beautiful wolf in the moonlight!

Detail of the ear

Detail of the muzzle

Halfway done and coming along beautifully

Love this little guy!

A favorite pet, Buddy, as a kitten

Flowers with a Palette Knife

The semi-private lesson students worked to complete these in just two hours today.  TA-DAH! They were dry in time to take them home as well.  Gotta love acrylics!

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Acrylic Painting Mug

Exemplar

Middle and High school students in my small group lessons are learning how to paint with acrylics.  I thought it would be great to begin with how to paint a form, and we are using a mug as our subject for this study.  They were only allowed to use two complementary colors and white paint.  They learned how to darken colors with the opposite color on the color wheel, how to make faux black, and how to make a neutral gray.

Student learned layering techniques with the paint that they will use to paint a still life in the next few weeks.  They worked on watercolor paper that I had previously added gesso on to seal. 







Here are the student's work, and didn't they do a great job!