Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Ink landscape paintings

In the "Hello Vancouver" camp, I had the artist explore creating a landscape painting of Vancouver without using color.

I gave each child some India ink, a paintbrush, a jug of water and a paper towel. Then asked them to lightly sketch out a scene from the reference material provided of Vancouver on watercolor paper.

10 year old, view from seawall


Together we explored how to create value using the ink on some scrap paper and some of the different ways to apply ink, such as dry brush.


8 year old, tree at Jericho beach

9 year old,  West Vancouver viewpoint

I also handed out some homemade tonal viewfinders I made, to put over the reference material, to make it easier to figure out the tones to create their artwork.

9 year old, Jericho beach

The artist seemed to really enjoy working without color and quickly caught on as to how to create the values needed to make an interesting landscape painting. As a teacher, it was great to be able to refer back to this project on later works they were creating to help them create more interest with value in their works.

8 year old

One artist in particular ended up with two lovely works, her "test" paper that she worked out how to use the ink and brush and her large artwork. 

11 year old, test paper

I told her she should add it to a card to give to someone she cares about with a note inside. Isn't it lovely? Here is her final work.

11 year old, Lighthouse Park

What lovely works of art each child created without one bit of color! This was a relaxing project for the kids and I could not be more thrilled with the skills they learned on top of the beautiful art they created.






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