ACRYLICS
Teacher:  Karen Norman 

Homework for our last day, April 8th:
1. Finish all your paintings! I will be hanging work in the gym starting at 8:30 on Thursday.
2. I will have a second painting session at my home on Tuesday, April 6th from 1:15 until about 2:45. We might work outside with the beautiful weather!

Homework for April 1st:
1. Are you painting? Remember, all paintings should be finished!
2. Work on your fantasy painting.
3. On Tuesday there will be a class at our home: 7 Thomas Drive,
Silver Spring, MD 20904. We live 5 minutes south of First Alliance Church, off New Hampshire Avenue on Thomas Drive, 1st house on the left. Class will be from 1:00 until 2:30. Bring your questions, problems and paint, brushes and canvases and any other photos, and other supplies.

Homework for March 25th:
1. Bring in your canvases that are in progress (portrait and scripture painting)
2. Be prepared to continue painting your portrait. Please don't forget your photos!
3. Paint, paint, paint!!! Have you planned your fantasy painting yet? Put some time into this as well. You should be spending AT LEAST 4 hours a week on your paintings at home. There are 2 working classes left and the last class (April 8th) is the critique. ALL PAINTINGS MUST BE FINISHED FOR THE LAST CLASS.

Homework for March 18th:
1. I hope everyone got the canvas for the scripture painting. You should have the sketch finished so that you can work in class on Thursday.
2. You need to be self starters for this project. Our semester is nearing the end!!!! So KEEP PAINTING!!!
3. Continuation of the portrait on March 25th.

Homework for March 11th:
1. We will be continuing the portrait we started in class.
2. If you still need to finish your landscape, keep working on it and bring your painting to class with any questions.
3. Begin a plan for your scripture painting which you will be working on in class on March 18th and which you will complete for homework. Your fantasy painting will begin on March 25th.
4. Remember, the last class is on April 8th, so be careful to manage your time well!
Work hard, ask me whatever questions you have and if you need my help email me! I also hope to schedule a class in April for working on whatever painting you may need extra help on.
God bless you!


Homework for March 4th:
1. DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR PORTRAIT PHOTO!!!!
2. Work on your large landscape painting. Email me with questions and bring to class next week.

Homework for February 25:
1. Paint a little snowscape. Don't take more than 15 minutes. Time yourself! Plan and paint.
2. Work on your large landscape painting. Email me with any questions. Check your proportions and focal point.

Homework for February 11 and 18:
Wow, what a snowstorm!! I have gotten the internet back!
1. First, take time to look at the snow and the reflections and shadows. Your shadow colors are blue and/or purple shades, right?
In fact, this shows that where shadows are there are blues and purples, not just on snow but anything! You can SEE this on snow because of the whiteness of now.
2. Now paint what you see in your sketchbook. It can be a scene from a window or from a walk that you take a picture of. Enjoy the incredible beauty and enjoy your painting!

1. First of Homework for February 4:
Don't forget to BRING YOUR PHOTO! LIGHTLY sketch the scene on your canvas. Also bring your painted SKETCH of the scene in your sketchbook.
Remember visioneering is not painting exactly what you see in a photo. It is doing a little bit of your own thing with a photo. It is using a photo as a springboard into your own colors and leaving in what you want and leaving out what you don't want. (Look again at the pictures in last week's homework assignment.)
It is having some fun with a place or a composition and using the colors YOU want and even changing things to make for a better composition or a more dramatic look or more poignant mood.

Homework for Jan. 28th:
*** We will be finishing the still life painting in the 1st half hour.
1. Find your photo for the visioneering painting we will be starting in class. (If you can't find one you will have to use one of mine!)
2. paint a sketch (no more than 45 minutes!) in your sketchbook. THINK about color, values, and composition as you work.
3. I am trying to post the example I showed in class. Check back on Monday!

For January 21st : Paint a still life in your sketch book. This time it can be whatever you want as long as you have strong values.
See you on Thursday to finish the painting we started in class.

Here is the photo that we worked from in class:

Finish your painting and bring it to class next Thursday!

******* Please bring a photo of yourself or someone in your family or extended family. This should be a photo that is good enough to see all the features fairly well. Good lights and darks in the photo would be a plus!!! *************

Homework for January 7th:
1. Paint the painting of your choice on the 12 x 12 canvas that you picked up at the end of class. You are designing this as though it was a CD cover. Look at CD covers!!! What kind of music would your painting make you think of? Hopefully this will help you to think of what you would like to paint for this assignment.
2. Please email me with any questions: waterkart@gmail.com.
3. Please continue to check the CBA website for what else to bring to class on January 7th. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!


Homework for December 3rd:
1. This is our last class of the semester. You must bring:
A) ALL PAINTINGS FROM THE ENTIRE SEMESTER, COMPLETED.
B) Your sketchbook assignments (with the DATE) from the entire semester.
C) if you brought your landscape painting home, BRING IT TO CLASS! We will be continuing this painting in class on December 3rd.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! BE THANKFUL TO THE LORD!!!

Homework for November 19:
1. Continue to work on your master painting.
The progress so far is amazing!!! Keep up the good work!
2. Next class: Landscape techniques.
3. The last class for the semester is December 3rd.
We will be finishing the landscape painting on that day.

Homework for November 12:
1. Work on the master copy that you have been working on in class. We will continue work on this painting on November 12th. I will also be talking about our last painting for the semester, and handing out canvas for this painting. We have only 3 classes left before our break!
Last day of class is December 3rd.

Homework for November 4:
1. Bring your masterwork oil or acrylic painting that you are going to copy for your next painting.
2. Familiarize yourself with the colors, composition, and values of the work that you will be copying. In other words, take time to look at
the painting and HOW you will go about your rendering, if you need to do some color experimenting to find how to make a certain color, work on this in your sketchbook!
See you Thursday!
Homework for October 29th:
1. Look up the still life paintings of Paul Cezanne
2. Paint a landscape from a photo or life in your larger sketchbook.
Look for the lights and darks!!
3. Find a masterwork oil or acrylic painting that you would like to study and make a copy of in a couple of weeks. You MUST have a good quality photograph of the painting to work from. Bring to class!!

Homework for October 22nd:
1. Finish your little leaf paintings that we started in class.
2. Do a "leaf composition" in your sketchbook for homework. This should be an arrangement of leaves outlined or traced in pencil then painted in acrylic. Choose any leaves that you wish!
3. Don't "leaf" your paintings at home!

Homework for October 15th:
1. Paint four small sketches (four rectangles) in your larger sketchbooks. These are four "planning color sketches" which concentrate on composition, values, and main shapes and forms.
You can draw the outline for the four sketches with a ruler. Each one should take no longer than 15 minutes and can be a landscape, still life, figure or animal. They should be fun to do!!

Homework for October 8th:
1. Paint a landscape from life. This is called Plein-Aire. The days are warm and you can paint outside. For texture try a small sponge as well as brush marks for your vista.
2. Come prepared to paint a still life.
3. I guess I wrongly assumed that the acrylic painting was finished! I don't want to give too much homework but the little landscape in your sketchbook on location, is meant to be done fairly QUICKLY, no more than an hour and working on blocking in shapes and values. The weather this week is so nice that I thought this was a good time for this assignment.
You can continue to work on your painting in class for another week.


Homework for October 1st:
1. Read the article for last week on atmospheric perspective
2. Paint the 9 stripes of paint exercise using thinner paint for the overlaid second set of stripes as shown in class.
3. Paint a large spoon in strong light with good lights and darks!
4. Come prepared to work on landscape painting we started in class.

Homework for September 24:
1. Finish the painting on paper using atmospheric perspective that we started in class.
2. Find a photo of a landscape and bring to class. We WILL BE PAINTING ON CANVAS FROM THE PHOTOS.
3. read the article: www.artistsnetwork.com/article/atmospheric-perspective/

Homework for September 17th:
1. Finish your gray scale
2. Do your color mixes or "swatches" (no larger than 1") LABELED
with the colors used.
3. Find an oil or acrylic painting in a book, magazine etc. that you admire. Bring the picture to class for a brief discussion before we start our painting.  

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