How to Paint Like Autistic Artist Matthew Wong: Step-by-Step Guide for Kids
Explore how to paint like autistic artist Matthew Wong with our step-by-step guide. Discover his unique techniques and create your own masterpiece!
How to Paint Like Autistic Artist Matthew Wong Art Lesson
When students learn about artists who have taken a different approach of how they see the world, it can give them permission to do the same.
Those that are new to art classes, understandably often just start off just trying to follow directions. After all, it’s what most of their school days are all about.
Art classes though, can be a welcome relief from that right/wrong kind of thinking. They can encourage students to look for their own ideas, and express their own thoughts.
Matthew Wong, a Canadian painter diagnosed with autism, often painted landscapes that looked familiar, but had a touch of other-worldliness to them too. He often experimented with different colors, mush like the Impressionist artists did, to make something that had a unique look and feel. You can check out a gallery of his work HERE.
The Artistic Vision of Matthew Wong
Matthew Wong was a self-taught Canadian artist who rose to the top of the art world in just 6 years, from 2013, when he began painting, to his death by suicide at the age of 35.
“In that time, he created a visual language uniquely his own, becoming known for vibrant and psychologically charged landscape paintings in a wide range of styles,” says the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The Times proclaimed him “one of the most talented painters of his generation.”
Matthew Wong Painting Lesson Materials List
Step by Step Directions
Time needed: 45 minutes
Paint like Matthew Wong Step by Step
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Paint waves of color on mixed media paper. This example was made with tempera cake paints.
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Tear some strips of drawing paper, making sure they have torn edges on both sides. (Tearing will give them an organic look.) Spread back side very generously with a glue stick and apply to painting.
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Mix gray paint by making a very watery black. Brush on one side of the trees to make a shadow.
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Use a small brush to paint small black lines on the trees.
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When all is dry, add yellow dots with a yellow china marker.
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