Warm and Cool Imagination Drawings with Chagall

Discussion: 

Warm and cool colors 

What are warm colors? 

How can they make us feel? 

Excited angry hungry

What are cool colors? 

How do they makes us feel? 

Relax, calm, sad

Imagination: what does it mean to have imagination

Dreams, creative

Artist: Marc Chagall

1887-1985

Russian Born. French painter

Known for his use of colors

Known for his dreamlike images

He used clear colors and geometric forms

Mastered stain glass in his sixties

Project: 

Step1: using a pencil draw a tree in the middle of the paper long ways

Step2: turn the paper

Step3: draw a house square triangle add windows and details

Step4: turn the paper

Step5: draw circles and stars

Step6: turn the paper

Step7: draw a person like they are flying 

Step8: color the objects in using warm colors

Step9: add white oil pastels to any object that you want to be white

Step10: add black to outline objects or add movement

Step11: using liquid watercolor in cool colors

Materials: 

Pencil

Card stock

Oil pastels in warm colors

Liquid watercolors in cool colors

This lesson was adapted from: The Incredible Art Department. Thanks!!!

Warm and Cool color collages with Hundertwasser

Two week project, students create collage paper the first week. 

Discussion: Warm colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they warm?

Where do we see them everyday?

Cool colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they cool?

Where do we see them everyday?

ARTIST: Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1978-2000)

GERMAN

The eccentric and playfully self-advertising Viennese artist 

Early school reports attested to his "exceptional feeling for colour and form". 

Hundertwasser spent three months at the Viennese Art Academy
He found the numerous and adventurous trips he took to Morocco, Tunisia, Nepal, Tokyo and Siberia inspirational for the path he intended to follow. 

Hundertwasser developed an abstract, decorative, two-dimensional and vibrantly colourful, utterly distinctive style distinguished by ornamental spiral and labyrinth forms, circles, meanders and biomorphic shapes.
During the 1960s Friedensreich Hundertwasser was extremely successful

Active in the ecological movement, Hundertwasser was committed to making life livable in a humane environment that was close to nature. 

So versatile and prolific was Hundertwasser that he also designed coins and stamps for Austria, Senegal and the UN from the 1970s. 

In 1981 Hundertwasser was appointed head of the master for painting at the Viennese Art Academy. 

The famous Hundertwasser House in Vienna, begun in 1983, attests to Hunderwasser's skill as an architect.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser died on a cruise ship off New Zealand in 2000.

PROJECT: WEEK 1: Create both a warm and a cool striped paintings 

Step1: on white paper paint a red stripe

Step2: using a craft stick and fork make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step3: make an orange stripe next to your red stripe

Step4: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your orange paint

Step5: repeat steps with yellow and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step6: on white paper paint a blue stripe

using a craft stick and/or fork make stripes or marks in your blue paint

Step7: make an green stripe next to your blue stripe

Step8: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your green paint

Step9: repeat steps with violet and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

Project: WEEK TWO

Step1: cut strips from your cool or warm colors (ARTIST DECISION) and glue them on the card stock

Step2: from the opposite color pages cut circles in three sizes and glue them on top of your stripes 

Step3: repeat until you have three flowers

Step4: add stems

MATERIALS AND TOOLS: 

White construction paper

Warm and cool colored paint

Pop cycle sticks

Forks

Adapted from:http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/10/hundertwasser-art-lesson-for-kids/

Warm and Cool Relief Sculpture with Hundertwasser

Discussion: Form

Where do we find sculptures? 

Do we find paintings in a park? 

When you have a sculpture do you see the back? 

3D vs 2D

Relief sculpture, only the front usually used on buildings 

Sometimes tell a story. 

Texture: where do we find texture? 

Hair vs. Shoe

Warm and cool colors

ARTIST: Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1978-2000)

GERMAN

The eccentric and playfully self-advertising Viennese artist 

Early school reports attested to his "exceptional feeling for colour and form". 

Hundertwasser spent three months at the Viennese Art Academy
Morocco, Tunisia, Nepal, Tokyo and Siberia inspirational for the path he intended to follow. 

Hundertwasser developed an abstract, decorative, two-dimensional and vibrantly colourful, utterly distinctive style distinguished by ornamental spiral, circles, meanders and biomorphic shapes.
During the 1960s Friedensreich Hundertwasser was extremely successful

Active in the ecological movement, Hundertwasser was committed to making life livable in a humane environment that was close to nature. 

So versatile and prolific was Hundertwasser that he also designed coins and stamps for Austria, Senegal and the UN from the 1970s. 

In 1981 Hundertwasser was appointed head of the master for painting at the Viennese Art Academy. 

The famous Hundertwasser House in Vienna, begun in 1983, attests to Hunderwasser's skill as an architect.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser died on a cruise ship off New Zealand in 2000.

PROJECT: WEEK !: Create clay tile and flower 

Step1: grab your block of clay and tear off 1/3. 

Step2: using the large clay ball flatten into a flat square 

Step3: make sure the edges are smooth

Step4: using a craft stick make stripes in your clay making at least five stripes

Step5: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in each stripe just like last week. Leaving texture behind

Step6: with the reminder of your clay make a snake

Step7: twirl your snake into a spiral 

Step8: if you can make your tail of the snake the stem of your spiral, if not we will bring you more clay to create a stem

Project: WEEK TWO

Step1: paint the tile in cool colors.

Step2: paint your flower in warm colors

MATERIALS AND TOOLS: 

White construction paper

Warm and cool colored paint

Pop cycle sticks

Forks

Warm and Cool 3-D Watercolor Ships with Paul Klee

Upon Arrival: 

Students create 1/2 cool page of water color and salt

Students create whole warm page of red and oranges

Discussion: 

Balcutha

What is it? 

What does it look like? 

What are you expected to learn there? 

Why are you studying the Balcutha? 

Warm and cool colors

Warm colors make us? 

Cool Colors Make us? 

How would you draw this ship? 

Show many examples leading up to Paul Klee's Adventurers Ship

See the ship as shapes

What lines do you see?

What shapes do you see?

Geometric? Organic?

ARTIST: Paul Klee 

(1879 – 1940) 

Swiss painter of German nationality.

His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. 

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it. 

His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes child-like perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality. 

He and his friend, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art and architecture.

PROJECT: 

Step 1: using a pencil draw out the balcutha in shape and line, draw lightly

Step2: using small sharpie go over all of the outside line in black

Step3: add all details, windows, stripes, etc. 

Step3: using colored pencils add in the color on the ship

Step4: cut out your ship

Step 5: work with students to staple the ship onto the warm paper allowing it to 3-d off the page slightly

Step6: add your blue water on top of the ship to create the final 3-D illusion. 

Materials: 

Glue

Watercolor paper 1and 1/2 for each student

Liquid water color

Large brushes

Salt

Spray bottle

Colored pencils

Scissors

Thank you to Ms. Little for this fun art project for fourth grade students in California!!!

Warm and Cool Color Seascape with Hans Hoffman

This lesson plan is adapted from and earlier lesson plan: Warm and Cool Colors with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: 

Hans Hoffman and his work Seascape, 1941

This piece is on display at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

What do you see in this piece?

Does it look like a photograph

What colors did the artist choose?

what do you see first when you look at this piece?

Landscape: foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line

line

Warm and cool colors

seascapes

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966)  

German-born American abstract expressionist painter. 

He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 

In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.

Hans Hofmann’s paintings bridged the gap between European Modernism at the beginning of the century and Abstract Expressionism a generation later. 

Hired by the University of California at Berkeley in 1930 to teach a series of courses, his curriculum was the most progressive in the state. 

The artist’s combination of Cubist structure and bright Fauvist color, combined with his “push-pull” theories of color and composition, proved revolutionary. 

In California, his views were a decided departure from the way artists were accustomed to thinking and seeing. 

He came to Berkeley through the invitation of Worth Ryder, a former student. In 1932, 

he moved to New York, teaching at the Art Students League and then at his own school. 

In 1958, he retired from teaching to devote full time to painting. 

His late paintings of overlapping squares confirmed his reputation as an internationally important modernist.

Hofmann's work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships.

His completely abstract works date from the 1940s.

Hofmann believed that abstract art was a way to get at what was really important. 

He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak".

PROJECT: students create a warm and color seascape

Step1: students see their vertical page in three parts:background, middle ground, foreground

Step2: Background: using black oil pastel, create a circle sun and a series of vertical stripes

Step3: middle ground: using black oil pastel: students paint in a series of curves that will become mountains

Step4: foreground: using black oil pastel: students draw in a body of water with sail boats

Step5: Background: students color in the stripes in warm colors, orange and yellow using oil pastels

Step6: students color in the middle ground mountains with cool colors of green values in oil pastels

Step7: student color in the sea in values of blue and their sail boats in reds and oranges in oil pastels

Step8: using watercolors paint over the piece with the right colors for each section.

Materials:

12x18 thick white paper

watercolor paint in primary, secondary

oil pastels

black oil pastels

Warm Sunsets with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: 

Warm Colors

Positive space

Negative space

Landscapes

Trees

Van Gogh

Van Gogh's:  Landscape at Sunset

ARTIST: Van Gogh

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

PROJECT:

Step 1: paint your sunset in warm colors of watercolor

Step2: Using pencils draw three trees across your black paper 

Step3: carefully cut out your trees leaving your land to hold the three trees together

Step4: Paste your black paper on your watercolor sunset

MATERIALS: 

Thick paper

Paint white and black

Paint brushes

Water

Scissors

glue

Warm and Cool Hearts with Jim Dine

PREPARATION: precut Heart stencils from card stock and tape them to the table. Students will slip their paper underneath. 

DISCUSSION: Warm and Cool Colors

What are warm colors?

How do they make us feel?

Where/When do we see them?

What are cool colors?

How can they make us feel?

Where/when do we see them?

ARTIST

Jim Dine born June 16, 1935

American pop artist. 

He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. 

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University 

 He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. 

Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world. 

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.

This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America

Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

PROJECT: create oil pastel heart with stencil  

Step 1: name on paper

Step2: place stencil on paper and tape down

Step3: Color inside the stencil with warm oil pastels

Step4: remove stencil

Step5: fill in background with cool color of water colors

Step6: place on drying rack

MATERIALS:

Heart stencils

Oil pastels

Liquid watercolors in cool colors