Artistic Style Flower Painting

Students create an artwork depicting a vase of flowers, using a combination of drawing and painting techniques.

Objective:
1. Research one artist flower painting
2. Internalize the insights you have learned from your research and create your flower painting in a vase.
3. Your interpretation of this painting through a feeling. How will you create your flowers in a vase picture? What is the expression of creating this painting?

Assignment 1
Find one artist flower painting and create a google slide to include the following aspect for the artist research:

Slide1:

Title: Artistic Flower painting

Subtitle: Your name and last name

Slide 2

Title: Artist study 1-upload one flower painting and include the following information.

· Who is the artist?

· What is the title?

· What year of this artwork?

· What do you know about this artist?

Slide 3

Title: Artist study 2- List 3 interesting facts about the artist.

Slide 4

Title: Artist study 3- In this slide insert the painting and analyze the artwork.

· Which technique did the artist use to paint the artwork?

· What are the colors? What are the lines/ patterns/ textures?

· What are the shapes and sizes?

What are the styles of this artwork?

· What is the background?

Slide 5

Title: Artist study 4- Describe this painting from this artist and share how it makes you feel.

Slide 6:

Title: Artist study 5- What are the insights from this artist that inspires you to create your own artwork.

Artistic Style Flower Painting Gallery

The rubric of the Artistic Style Flower Painting:

1. Must have a vase or an object to hold the flowers
2. Composition( layout of the flowers)
Must have 8-10 flowers and 10 + leaves well balanced. Must have evidence of overlapping and crop out.
3. Must to use the circle template to assure the scales of the flowers are not too small.
4. Must have a table/ background. The entire paper is used to its full potential. No empty or overfilled space.
5. Must show the evidence of three things you have learned from your artist's research.
6. Must use various shades of colors to show 3D effects.
7. Must demonstrate color theory in the painting.

Complimentary color
Analogous colors
Cool colors
Warm colors
Monochromatic colors
Contrasting colors
Tins and shades

8. Must create a high-quality painting( excellent craftsmanship) that delivers a sense of aesthetic appreciation to the viewer.
Craftsmanship is the quality that comes from creating with passion, care, and attention to detail. It is a quality that is neat, refined, and it is about the ability to create something elegant and high-quality that delivers a lot of value.

Steps:

Color

Analogue colors
Complementary colors
Monochromatic colors
Warm colors/Cool colors

Cool Colors

Painting the flowers
TheoryTints and Shades/Tone
Highlight and Shadow

Multiple Color Mixing

Texture

Shape / Size/ Rotation of the flowers

Composition and Background

Brushwork

Bruch Technique:

Wash

Layering

Mix colors before painting

Background

Famous Artists who painted flowers:

Claude Monet - Vase of flower 1880

Claude Monet- Flowers and Fruits 1870

Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers" (1880)

Van Gogh -Irises 1889

Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888)

– Vincent Van Gogh

Still Life with Flowers by Ambrosius Bosschaert (1617)

Flowers in a Glass Vase, with a Cricket in a Niche by Rachel Ruysch (1700)

Bouquet of flowers by Edouard Manet (1882)

Roses and Lillies by Henri Fantin-Latour (1888)

Bouquet of Roses by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (c. 1890 – 1900)

Flower Garden by Gustav Klimt (1905)

Amaryllis by Piet Mondrian (1910)

White Vase with Flowers by Odilon Redon (1916)

Reference: 12 Famous Flower Paintings that Make the Canvas Bloom

Assignment 2

Flowers in a vase painting rubric:

1. Have a vase with evidence of highlight and shadow

2. Have at least 8 or more flowers and 20 or more leaves to cover more than half of the space on your paper. The flowers and leaves should naturally appear in different directions and overlapped to create depth.

3. Flowers and leaves have a scientifically and botanically correct illustration and they are NOT from an imagination.

4. Well thought of composition and placement of the flowers and leaves to create areas of interest in their artwork. Have a design for the background( wall/ window/ table)

5. Present one or more color theory with evidence of color mixing theory

6. The final artwork should appear some distinguishing features that you have researched from the particular artist style.

7 Showing excellent painting techniques

Painting Steps:

1. Learning from botanical illustration to studying flowers closely. You can use the flower booklet as your reference.
2. Sketch with a good layout composition with at leaves 8 flowers and 20 leaves in a vase. You will need include a background. Use the circle templet to arrange the location and the size of the flowers .

2. Choose the right paint brushes

3. Use underpainting first and build up the textures and colors to represent the style your have learned from the artist you chosen

Use larger paintbrushes to paint one layer of under color for the flowers

Use smaller paintbrushes add texture for the details

How to paint a flower

How to paint a leaf

Flower Bouquet picture exemplar:
You can-
1. get a still-life picture online
2. take a picture yourself
***You need to save this picture as your reference for your final slide presentation.