Equine Artists International: Art Lesson on line and color by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Art Lesson using Line and Color

This week I want to work on an exercise to loosen your thoughts and inspire your creativity. Painting is ahead but I want some foundation and work done before doing a lot of painting. You need to be using all the elements and having full grasp of different mediums at the same time.

If I gave you the math problem of 8 + 3 = N, you know how to solve for N. But how many ways can you get there? That is limited. If I give you the art problem of Line + Color = N , N is limitless. You can do this with Paint, you can do this with crayons, you can do this with markers, you can do this with craypas or watercolors or anything. You can even collage using lines and color.

There is no given subject, no given rules or guidelines. Here is a painting I did in 2008. Gives you an idea to loosen you up with thoughts and plan a composition of maybe a vase with flowers...or a cityscape with the buildings in black and white and the sky in colors.

Hard Wired