Day 20!

Most things, especially things in nature, have a color that people automatically assign to them.  The sky and the ocean are usually depicted as being blue, grass is generally green as are most trees.  People have varied skin tones but they usually fall into a palette that we are familiar with.  Dogs and cats usually are black or white, brown or 'ginger', sometimes mixtures of all of those colors, sometimes in various shades.

Back in the early 20th century there was a group of artists called 'The Fauves', meaning 'Wild Beasts' in French.  The Fauves were interested in using color as personal expression rather than the realistic, representational way that it had been used in the past.  The Fauves valued individual expression and the personal relationship between artist and subject.  You can read more about the Fauve movement here, here and here.

Here's a list of a few of the most famous Fauve artists that you can read about:
Henri Matisse
Andre Derain
George Braque
Raoul Dufy

George Rodrigue was an American painter most famous for his Blue Dog series.  While not technically a Fauve, he employed arbitrary color in his work regularly.  You can read more about George's work here and here.

Today's challenge is for you to think like a Wild Beast.  Draw a picture, or if you have a coloring book you can use a picture in the book, just make sure that if you do use a coloring book picture, it is a picture of something recognizable, not just designs or patterns.  Then, throw all your ideas of what color things should be out the window and color in your picture using arbitrary colors.  Use colors that you want the things in the picture to be, not the colors that they are usually assigned. Have fun, be creative and as always, take pictures and share them with the class in Google Classrooms!