Term 3 Art

This term we have been learning different painting techniques which we have been practicing to turn into a big painting. One of the things we have been learning to use is this thing called Gesso which is an Italian pronounced word which is a paint mixture with chalk or charcoal mixed into it. When we used this we had to spread it around as much as we could so when it dries it has a smooth texture. if you don't spread it around enough, there will be brush marks within the Gesso base. We also worked on blending colours together. My one i did was pink,blue and green and the other one was red to yellow but it ended up just going orange.

These two pieces are my having a go at doing a gradient. And the one on the far left is me doing a layering technique that miss introduced me to.

This is what i came up with when i was doing stenciling. The picture on the left is one of the stencil cutouts and the one on the right is what i came up with.This is me practicing using the Black and White Gesso. i didn't really get a good go at putting anything on the top of the gesso but it was run to spread around.      
I learnt that these techniques are all very different from one another but they are all reasonably fun. I learn't how to spread the gesso around properly so then there aren't any brush makes in it.