Objective: You will analyze artworks in order to gain inspiration for creating texture for your abstract artwork.

DRILL:1. Get your sketchbook

to list/ sketch ideas as the slides pass.

2. We will make 3+ abstract artworks:

1. Textured-adding to it2. Watercolor3. All about the title

3. Read the homework.

Expectation24"x24"x.75"Acrylic on Canvas$210.00

Grade for Abstract Introduction

1. Title- Abstract art2. Description3. Definition/ History4. Artists5. 2 examples painted or

drawn50 pts- 10 pts each

ANCIENT DWELLINGS, 9078, geologic, acrylic, textured abstract2009-09-2548 in X 24 in (121.9 cm X 61 cm)acrylic

Mary Capan

http://www.paintingsdesign.com/index.htm

Highly Textured Abstract Paintings by Laura Warburton

"City History" ~ a Mixed Media Abstract Contemporary Painting by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

Lessons• Tomorrow- higher level

compositional strategies• 3 abstract pieces~ – Textured acrylic with finishing– Watercolor – With a title/ meaning/ feeling

• Figure drawing practice• Painting/ Drawing the figure• Combination- abstract art

with a figure painting

Today’s goal is to create a texture surface for your canvas.

Try to gesso as many canvases as you can.

ANCIENT DWELLINGS, 9078, geologic, acrylic, textured abstract2009-09-2548 in X 24 in (121.9 cm X 61 cm)acrylic

http://filomenaboothart.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html

• Artwork with sweet titles.

Filomena Booth

• http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=1085549&IRV=1

Charles R. Murphy