Visual Arts 11 — Painting
All Acrylic painting unit booklets
unadapted — adapted — IPP — Arabic — Chinese — Farsi — Japanese — Korean — Spanish — Swahili — Tagalog — Ukrainian — Vietnamese

Painting evaluation: PDF — source on Google Slides
Acrylic painting presentations (for 1¼ hour classes)
Skill builders:
  1. Acrylic painting skills 1: Colour wheel
  2. Acrylic painting skills 2: Acrylic techniques
  3. Acrylic painting skills 3: Hello Kitty!
  4. Acrylic painting skills 4: Observing light and dark I
  5. Acrylic painting skills 5: Observing light and dark II
Mini painting:
  1. Mini acrylic painting 1
  2. Mini acrylic painting 2
  3. Mini acrylic painting 3
Idea development:
  1. Acrylic idea development 1
  2. Acrylic idea development 2
  3. Acrylic idea development 3
  4. Acrylic idea development 4
Making the painting project:
  1. Acrylic painting 1: Beginning, and Abstract art
  2. Acrylic painting 2: Line work and Surrealism
  3. Acrylic painting 3: Background and Dada
  4. Acrylic painting 4: Background and NSCAD portfolios
  5. Acrylic painting 5: Foreground and Modernism
  6. Acrylic painting 6: Foreground and Art analysis
  7. Acrylic painting 7: Work day & Art Auctions
  8. Acrylic painting 8: Peer feedback
  9. Acrylic painting 9: Work day
  10. Acrylic painting 10: Last day and intro to the clay portrait
Master slides for acrylic painting
Advice and exemplars
Gallery of student paintings: New gallery and Old gallery

New Painting gallery cover: Google Slides
Old Painting gallery cover: PDF

Acrylic painting examples from previous semesters: Google Slides

Acrylic painting peer feedback versions:
Painting advice
Handout: Painting advice [pdf]
Idea development for acrylic painting handout versions
Idea development for the painting project
Creativity - Things that inspire you
Creativity - Responses about inspiration
Creativity - Things that you wish would change


Image reference templates
for creating your own skill builders
for gathering reference images for the mini painting
for gathering reference images for the acrylic painting project
Support Materials and Handouts
Project outline
Handout: Project outline [pdf]
Art Ideas-The AHA Moment
Handout: Art Ideas-The AHA Moment [pdf]
Peer feedback
Handout: Peer feedback [pdf]
Project reflection
Handout: Project reflection [pdf] source [docx]

Acrylic technique basics: PDF — Google doc — PNGs: page 1 page 2 — Exemplar images: page 1 page 2
Apple, orange, flower, Vermeer: PDF — Google doc — PNGs: page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4

Criteria and Vocabulary for the acrylic painting project handout versions

Art history

  1. Group of Seven
  2. Contemporary