Saturday Morning Heroes Challenge

PurposeTo create a properly layered acrylic painting that shows evidence of planning and overall composition.

BIG CONCEPT

The goal here is to show your abilities in properly layering, planning, and carrying out your actions to create an original acrylic painting.

Requirements For both paintings/layers

1. Acetate CelYour cartoon character has been traced out in the proper location and is clean of running paint, smudges, or smears.

2. Album Art BackgroundIs finished using watercolor, and also has all of the necessary details/information for it to appear as album art.

ie: Artist title, proper font/size, parental warning

3. LayeringWhen both the clear cel and the watercolor album art are layered, one on-top of the other, the painting will appear as a variant (or altered version) of the original album art.

NOTE: everything should line up properly and fit within the boundaries of your 8.5 x 8.5 square.

If you have excess paper or too much negative space...you may need to change the approach you're taking or add a bit more to your album art.

4. Artist Statement:A picture is worth a thousand words

This painting should speak for itself, however, just like every other painting you’ve participated in, I am going to require each student to be able to talk about the creative process they took in completing this work.

This means you should be mentioning:

▪ Why this album?▪ Why these cartoon characters?▪ What idea where you trying to

communicate?▪ Was the process successful or not?▪ Do you believe that the viewer will

understand what is being presented?

Let’s reviewImportant dates...March 7-8Brief description of project, tutorial of materials, and research time to find inspiration.

March 9-11Studio time to work on outlining cartoon character on acetate (clear transparency)

March 11project update sent in..

March 14In-depth description as to project requirements. The specifics of each step, and the overall effect of what the final painting should look like.

March 16-17Half days due to Parent Teacher Conference

March 18-24Studio time to work on both portions of composition as well as artist statement.

Due March 24

*11 class days