Module C: The Advanced Traditions Artist
- Lesson 1 – Intensities and Colors
Skills: the difference between color values and intensities; varying intensity without changing value; the relationship between colors and their background as they relate to intensity
Lesson 2 – Art of the Brush - Stroke Control
Lesson 3 – Swedish Dalamaling
Skills: glazing; dimensional control; simple faces; faux finish; transparent strokes; casual layering
Lesson 4 – French Regency
Skills: tone colors to give harmony; wood preparation; faux wood graining; overall composition softness; shadow softening; controlling “gold”; common tint color; transparent color washes
Lesson 5 – Country Tin
Skills: value and liner work control; solid layered strokes
Lesson 6 – Golden Strokes and Roses
Skills: controlling “gold” with color; light passage; double loading
Lesson 7 – Partridge and Pear Cartouche
Skills: brush control for feathers; intensity - center of interest; brush mixing; layers; wet on wet blending; mottled background; complementary toning
Lesson 8 – Stroke Roses
Skills: brush loading; layering; triple- and multi-loading
Lesson 9 – Dutch Floral
Skills: depth through layers; wet on wet glazes
Lesson 10 – Still Life – Trompe l’oeil
Skills: dimensional control - lost and found edges; shapes; form; perspective: ellipse; cast and resting shadows; realistic still life; below eye level perspective; transparent glass - study; float color; refined blending; washes
