abstract landscape with Jerrold Ballaine

DISCUSSION:

Look at Ballaine's work Autumn landscape, 1960

what do you see.

Is there a shadow? is there water? what is the white spot?

Expressionism

Oil resist

texture

lifting out color

adding texture with “new” art tools

ARTIST: Jerrold Ballaine was born in Seattle, Washington in 1934.  

He attended the University of Washington in Seattle.  

He got his BFA from the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1959 and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961.  

Ballaine taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1965 through 1994.

PROJECT: students create expressionist type landscape using oil resist and texture

Step1: Draw a horizon line
at least one tree, 
something in the background on the horizon, body of water, etc...
Two organic shapes
a shadow for your tree
Add an organic shape of tape 
add newspaper in a geometric shape

Step2: fill in a great deal of the piece BELOW the horizon using very thick oil pastel in several colors

Step3: using craft stick scrape oil pastel in certain ares to lift and move 

Step4: using a sponge begin to add in watercolor in the background add it in lines of value
Pure color across the top in a line
add water to the sponge and another line under
add more water and a third line
continue if needed

Step5: push the watercolor by scraping in in one area.

Step6: add a wash of color in foreground and cover with plastic wrap to dry

MATERIALS: 

oil pastels

craft sticks to take away oil pastels and later to scrape watercolor

watercolor paper

watercolor paint

plastic wrap

paper towels

sponges

Weaving Tissue and found objects with Ellen Kochansky

K-1-2 Grades

DISCUSSION: Look at several examples of Ellen Kochansky's  work

Weaving? How is weaving art? 

What is weaving? 

Art A: how would this art feel? 

Is there a pattern? 

What is the pattern of this weave? 

Why did the artist name this piece riverdance? Nancy Curry

How to Weave: Over under, over under

Under over, under over

ARTIST: Ellen Kochansky

American textile designer

owns and designs for EKO. 

From rural South Carolina, 

she has made quilts and textile art for over 30 years. 

She has served as an American Canvas panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and as a trustee of the American Crafts Council. 

Her works are in many public and private institutions including the Museum of Art + Design in NY, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.

PREPARATION: Create looms in advance (one per student):

Step 1: cutting 12x18 black construction paper down to 12x12 square

Step 2: Gently bend them and cut strips one inch from top bottom and sides.  

MATERIALS: 

Looms

Chenille stems

Glue

Found objects

Yarn

Fabric

PROJECT: 

Weaving with Tissue paper

Step 1: grab loom and tissue strips

` Step 2: begin weaving by going over and under stems

Step 3: with you next tissue strip go under over the stems

Step 4: return to over under

Step 5: return to under over

Step 6: embellish the weave using found objects like our artist

Step 7: glitter station

Step 8: glue on yarn 

Step 9: glue on fabric, glitter, beads, pom poms, feathers

 

Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree ASAP

Lesson Plan for 6-8 Grade

DISCUSSION:  Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree

Texture, movement, balance, 

        color and value

        perspective, 

Why does it work?

What do we think of

Why does it feel like we are there?

ARTIST: VAN GOGH

Vincent  van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter 

His work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art

Known for his  vivid colors and emotional impact. 

Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties

most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. 

He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. 

His work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed. 

Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.

Known for his paint application creating texture and movement.

He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life,

died largely unknown, at the age of 37

sold only one painting while he was alive

for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

PROJECT: 

Each student is given 1/6 of the mulberry tree painting to recreate on their canvas. 

There are no parameters they may interpret it anyway they like. 

MATERIALS:

Canvas

Acrylic paints

Paint brushes

water


ADDITIONAL Student picture from a similar project students did with Picasso:

Nature textures with Gerhard Richter

Kindergarten-Second Grade

PREPARATION: thicken blue and green paint with flour

DISCUSSION:
Show several of Richter’s Abstract Art work
What do you see?
Does it look like a photograph? It is an Abstract
What does it make you think of?
Water reflections
Tree bark
Evoke textures of natural objects: reflections, shadows
What tools do painters use?
Canvas, brush paint
Where do you see layers of paint?
What order do you think he painted them in?
How do you think he created these effects
Layers of paint scraped with a squeegee
Can an artist start a painting without knowing what they are going to create?

ARTIST:
Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932)
German visual artist.
Known for his blurred painting of photographs
Known for abstract paintings of pulled paint

PROJECT: Create a Richter inspired piece of art on Foam Core
Step1: using a sponge paint on your foam core using warm colors provided
Step2: Turn in sponges
Step3: gather painting materials: card board cut in small pieces , plastic forks
Popsicle sticks, etc.
Step4: using thickened greens and blues apply paint with cardboard squeegees
Step5: using forks and sticks scrape into the paint reveling the warm tones underneath
Step6: look at your work and see if you can find a texture that you see in nature.

MATERIALS:
Thicken blue and green paints
Warm Paints
Cardboard squeegees
Plastic forks and sticks
Foam core
Sponges

Adaptations: this project would be a great one for warm and cool color exploration.

This project was a really great way to expand the kids ideas about different ways we can create artwork. It was so much fun to experiment with different painting utensils. The kids had a blast and the results were amazing!!! Thanks to my friend Kerry for such a great lesson plan!!!

Printmaking Seahorses with Van Gogh

PREPARATION: add a bit of dish soap to all the paint colors. This will help to get it off the students hands.

DISCUSSION: The Seahorse: what do the students already knew about them?
Interesting facts such as: the male sea horse births the babies rather than the female,
A sea horse's eyes move independently so it can hunt with one eye and watch out for enemies with the other.

Texture comes into play as you might reveal a finger or thumbprint as you work on this project and it is a great way to tie in the artist Van Gogh:

ARTIST: Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
(30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter
His work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art
Known for his vivid colors and emotional impact.
Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties
most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years.
He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches.
His work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed.
Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.
Known for his paint application creating texture and movement.
He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life,
died largely unknown, at the age of 37
sold only one painting while he was alive

for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Painting with demonstration: Show the Students different techniques using their brushes
Vertical stroke
Horizontal Stroke
Top of the brush
Side of the brush
End of the brush

PRINTMAKING: using hands to make a print today. What does a print mean?
How many prints of our hands could we make?

PROJECT : Brushstroke/hand print Seahorses
Step 1: Students then laid the side of their brushes in yellow then orange or magenta, alternately, and printed three vertical strokes side-by-side for the head.
Step 2: they turned the brush horizontally to create a snout and used the tip of the brush to make two dots for the end of the snout.
Step 3: They continued to make the body, Using their four fingers dipped into the paint they make a print of their hand for the body.
Step 4: The sea horse was finished by making smaller brushstrokes for the curving tail, ending with tiny dots at the end. This technique is very forgiving--it's difficult to make a mistake. Experiment with overlapping strokes for an interesting effect.
Step 5: Dip the tip of the brush in yellow made the perfect big eye.
Step 6: The end of the handle of a brush dipped in green was used to make tiny pupils of the eye, each looking in a different direction.
Step 7: Make seaweed with the one-stroke method, blending yellow and green tempera.
Step 8 if time allows students can paint colorful schools of tropical fish were printed all with a few strokes of the brush.

MATERIALS:
Blue paper
Paint
Water
Soap

Found this great project in the September 2008 issue of Arts and Activities.

TEXTURED SUNFLOWERS WITH VAN GOGH

PREPARATION:

I created textured paint in advance. It is tempura paint in 3 values of yellow I value of green (for centers and stems) mixed with Flour and sand for texture.

DISCUSSION:

Texture? What is it?

What does your hair feel like?

What does the bottom of your shoe feel like?

What do your pants feel like?

What does tree bark feel like?

Some things are rough like tree bark and the bottom of our shoes

Some things are soft like kittens and our hair

This is Texture.

Can we see texture?
Can you smell texture?

Look at Van Gogh’s sun Flowers
What do you think?
How do you think they would feel if we were allowed to touch them?
How would them look if we were in a gallery with them?

READ: Pat the Bunny and talk about different textures in the book.

ARTIST:
VAN GOGH
Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)
painter
His work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art
Known for his vivid colors and emotional impact.
He suffered from health issues
died largely unknown, at the age of 37,

sold only one painting while he was alive

for more information on Van Gogh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh

PROJECT: Create Van Gogh Style textured flowers
Step1: draw this vase on you paper. Start with two lines up and one line across
Step 2: write your name (or the first letter of your name) across the line like Vincent Van Gogh did on his piece
Step3: using large brushes make Smash flowers by smashing your brush on the paper to form a circle flower. Use all three colors
Step4: paint your center and stems using green and a small brush

MATERIALS:
Cream Tag Board
Orange matting paper

3 values of yellow paint

Green textured paint
Flour to add texture to the paints
Glue add to the paints
Large Paint brushes

Small paint brushes