Painting is a visual art form that uses pigment combined with a binder and solvent to apply color to a surface. Artists use various painting styles and techniques to express themselves and their unique perspective on the world. Impressionism developed in 19th century France and is characterized by paintings done in an instantaneous manner using loose brushwork and bright colors to depict shimmering outdoor scenes. Color theory involves concepts like tints, tones, shades, intensity, and color schemes such as monochromatic, analogous, triadic, complementary, and split-complementary.

2.  Is a way of telling others about our
thoughts, opinions, reactions, and
feelings.
 Most of the time, we communicate
verbally.
 But VISUAL images are also a powerful
way of to communicate.

3.  Although people speak and write in
many different languages, pictures and
images are easily understood almost
anywhere in the world.
 ART IS A DIRECT, IMMEDIATE, AND
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

4.  Painting is the art of applying color to a
surface.
 Painters use a language of art to express
a personal point of view or a unique way
of seeing the world.
 They are able to choose from a wide
variety of media including: watercolor,
oil, tempera, acrylic, oil, gouache, etc.

5.  Pigment – The colored particles that give
paint its color.
› Natural pigments
› Synthetic
 Binder – The sticky substance that holds
the pigment particles together.
 Solvent – The liquid that is added to thin
the mixture to a spreadable consistency.

6.  The term style refers to the distinct and
consistent similarities in a group of
artworks, either those of an individual
artist (individual style) or group of artists,
or those from a particular place (cultural
style) or time period (historical style).

7.  Impressionism was developed in France
during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
 These pieces of art were painted as if
someone just took a quick look at the
subject of the painting.
 The paintings were usually in bold colors
and did not have a lot of detail.
 The paintings in this style were usually
outdoor scenes like landscapes. The
pictures were painted to look like they were
shimmering.

8. Mary Cassatt,
Little Girl in a
Blue Arm Chair,
1878,
Oil on canvas,
89 x 129.5 cm,
Musee d’Orsay
Gallery.
Claude Monet, Water Lilies ,1906 , Oil on
canvas, 87.6 x 92.7 cm (34 1/2 x 36 1/2 in);
The Art Institute of Chicago .
Pierre Auguste Renoir, A Girl With a
Watering Can, 1876, Oil on canvas, 100 x
73 cm (39 ½ x 28 ¾ in.), The National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

9.  Tints are a LIGHTER value of a color and
are created by adding WHITE to a color.
 Tones are a MUTED value of a color and
are created by adding GRAY to a color.
 Shades are a DARKER value of a color
and are created by adding BLACK to a
color.

10.  Intensity is the BRIGHTNESS or DULLNESS of
a color. The change the intensity of a
color add its COMPLEMENT.

11.  MONOCHROMATIC – 1 color plus the tints,
tones and shades of it.
 ANALOGOUS – 3-4 colors that sit adjacent
to each other on the color wheel and have
a color in common.
 COLOR TRIAD – 3 colors evenly spaced on
the color wheel.
 COMPLEMENTARY – 2 colors that are
directly across from each other on the color
wheel.
 SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY – 1 color and the 2
colors on both sides of its complement.