Exploration on the Teaching Practice of Color Foundation of Painting Majors in Colleges and Universities

Color foundation teaching is the main content of the color expression ability in the painting major of colleges and universities. The traditional color training methods are prone to being misunderstood as the cultivation of the representation techniques of objects of varying difficulties, thereby neglecting that the fundamental purpose of color foundation training is for creative expression. Compared with the traditional course model, the creative consciousness and concept guidance model is a reliable approach to address the expression issues during students' color foundation training at all stages. The traditional color teaching method of combining sketching from life and silent drawing often leads students to form passive, indiscriminate, and emotionless simulations of objects, causing the objects themselves to lose their significance of being depicted. The color lacks directionality and expressive purpose. Works overly rely on the accidental effects produced by unconscious object projection or the meticulousness of work processing, resulting in "sketching" becoming "stifled sketching". The creative consciousness and concept guidance model emphasizes extracting the characteristics of objects. Educators attach importance to discovering and affirming the accidental writing and incompleteness that occur during students' color practice, helping students create their own color imagery based on the objects they are representing at any stage of color learning.