Window Suprises with Georgia O'Keeffe

Discussion: adding a house into a landscape

Landscape: what is it?

  what is the first line you draw to create a landscape?

  HORIZON LINE: what does it separate?

       does it have to be in the middle of your page?

       if the horizon line is at the top of the page (background) you will have more land then sky

       if the horizon line is at the bottom of the page (foreground) you will have more?

I am from NC and I attended college in the capital in Raleigh, NC

Right around the corner from campus is the NCMA

My favorite piece in their collection is now and will always be Georgia O'Keeffe's

Cebolla Church 

she squeezes the church into the rectangle of the canvas. 

Such brutal cropping robs the church of any sense of place.

 It is not a place but an object, not all that different from an apple on a table

Best part: what’s in the window?

What do you think it is

How is this painting different then her other work?

I love how flat the paint is not at all textured like van Gogh yesterday

What is happening in the piece?

In New Mexico

ARTIST: Georgia O’Keeffe 

(November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) 

American artist. 

O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s. 

She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style. 

She is known for paintings of flowers, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.

O'Keeffe played a central role in bringing an American art style to Europe at a time when the majority of influence flowed in the opposite direction. 

This feat enhanced her art-historical importance given that she was one of few women to have gained entry to this level of professional influence. 

She found artistic inspiration in the rural Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she settled late in life

Project: Create an O’Keeffe style home on painting paper

Step 1: draw the home

Remember to fill the page with it

Remember to add two windows

Step2: create an addition coming toward the viewer

Step3: draw the horizon line behind the home

Step4: make sure the roof angled at the top

Step5: fill in the Home with a neutral color like brown or yellow or white

Step6: fill in the roof with dark grey or black

Step7: fill in the sky and clouds

Step8: fill in the grass or ground in the foreground

Step9: add shadows on the house under roofs and windows

Step10: last: add something in the window…

Materials:

Thick paint paper

Tempera paint or acrylic in neutral colors and bright blues and greens

Brush 

Water

Pencil 

ADDITIONS: if there time at the end of class or during your recap at your next class you could allow each child to tell what the secret in their window is...

Repousse' sculpture with Georgia O'Keeffe

PREPARATION: cut foil, drawing paper and foam core to the same size before class begins. 6"x6" squares are ideal for this project.

Discussion: Form 

Form: to give shape to a thing or person

Sculpture

What is sculpture made from? wood, metal, plaster, wax, 

Repousse’: a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side

The word repoussé is French and means "pushed up", 

Repoussage is actually the correct noun to refer to the technique, with repoussé

being an adjective referring to a piece to which the technique has been applied

English it has become common to use repoussé as a noun, and this usage is reflected in this article.

Most Famous Sculpture done with this technique? Statue of Liberty in New York

ARTIST: Georgia O’Keeffe 

(November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) 

American artist. 

O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s. 

She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style. 

She is known for paintings of flowers, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.

O'Keeffe played a central role in bringing an American art style to Europe at a time when the majority of influence flowed in the opposite direction. 

This feat enhanced her art-historical importance given that she was one of few women to have gained entry to this level of professional influence. 

She found artistic inspiration in the rural Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she settled late in life

Project: Create O’Keeffe Flowers as relief sculpture on tooling foil 9:30-10:30

Step 1: On paper, Using one minute  Blind Contour, practice drawing the group of flowers     Repeat 3-5 times

Step2: pick your favorite drawing of all the flowers or one flower

Step3: Tape drawing to 6" square of tooling foil (aluminum, copper or brass).

Step 4: Lay on pad of newspaper (or foam pads, if available).

Step 5: Trace over all lines with a ball point pen or popsicle stick - Remove drawing from foil.

Step 6: The Tool flower is in relief from back side - repoussee.

Step 7: Turn back over to front side and refine edges of flower.

Step 8: Add any textural effects desired.

Step 9: Color with permanent markers.

Step 10: adhere to same size cardboard or foam core

Materials:

Flowers or silk flowers. 

Square paper for blind contour drawings

Square tooling foil (or any desired size). 

Masking tape

Ball point pens or Popsicle sticks

Newspaper pads 

Permanent markers

Foam Core cut to the same size as the foil 6"x6" squares are ideal

Textured Relief Sculpture with Van Gogh

    

Allow 15 minutes for several days/weeks of art class to complete this project

DISCUSSION:

Texture

What is texture?

Where do we find it in nature?

Where do we see it in life everyday?

How can it help us?

Where do we see it in art?

Relief Sculpture

       what is it?

       where do you see it?

       it usually tells a story

       what would you find on the back of relief sculpture?

Project: 11:30-1

Step1: look through the books on Van Gogh and choose your favorite piece

Step2: get a hunk of clay

Step3: using your hand, warm it up by just moving it through your fingers

Step4: begin the process of rolling it out with your hands

Step5: flatten the clay and create a square or rectangle

Step6: with a toothpick begin to draw out your van Gogh piece in the clay

Step7: draw it all in with line

Step8: now go back and look at the texture of the piece

Step9: using different tools recreate the texture in to your clay drawing

Day 2: (or week 2)

Your RELIEF sculpture is now leather hard

Leather hard means harder then yesterday but you can still make changes

Step1: using sculpture tools from yesterday, carve out additional details

Add more texture, make details deeper, etc.

Day 3 (week 3)

At this stage the clay will be completely hardened

Paint the clay with acrylic paints

Day 4 (week 4)

Finish the piece by adding a gloss coat over the paint. Modge Podge is a great option. 

Adaptations: 

If a kiln is available you would bisque fire after week two and glaze fire after the third week. 

MATERIALS:

1 pound of clay per child

assorted tools to add texture

  straws

  plastic forks and knives

  tooth picks

Acrylic paint

Modge Podge

  

Picasso Collage Portraits

DISCUSSION/Drawing: Portrait Drawing with Picasso

Portrait: what does the word mean?

Is it a picture of a barn? Or landscape?

Proportion? What does it mean?

Why when we are talking about portraits would proportion be important?

Collage: what is it?

               how is it created?

FIRST: Use our paper to draw a face how you draw it now.

Color it in with oil pastels

Second: Go over proper proportion and how to draw a correct face

Draw a new face with the information you have just been given

Color with oil pastels

Third: Show them a Picasso Face. 

What is different about this face

Color

Proportion

Perspective

Draw a Picasso face and color in with oil pastels

ARTIST: 

Pablo Picasso 

(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. 

He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. 

He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 

He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 

During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 

Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, etc.

His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him immense fortunes throughout his life.

PROJECT: Create one face using all three 

Step1: Cut out each facial feature from all three faces

Step2: Place them into piles in the middle of the table

Step3: Draw a circle/shape for a head on your paper

Step4: Begin choosing new features for your face and paste them on

Step5: you could have one big eye or three eyes

Your nose could become a mouth or live on top of your head

Step6; Continue adding until you have a full Picasso face

Step7: Fill in with any color in oil pastels

MATERIALS:

White paper

Oil pastels

Scissors

Glue sticks

Weaving keychains and/or bracelets with Anni Albers

Discussion of the artist and her work

       weaving as a form of art

       using everyday/odd/found objects to create wearable art

ARTIST: Anni Albers

(1899 – 1994) 

She was a German-American textile artist and printmaker. 

She is perhaps the best known textile artist of the 20th century.

Albers worked primarily in textiles and, late in life, as a printmaker.

She produced numerous designs in ink washes for her textiles.

She experimented with jewelry. 

Her woven works include many wall hangings, curtains and bedspreads, mounted "pictorial" images, and mass-produced yard material. 

Her weavings are often constructed of both traditional and industrial materials, not hesitating to combine jute, paper, and cellophane, for instance, to startlingly sublime effect.

1928 she studied with paul klee and kandinsky at Bauhaus in Germany

I found these beautiful step by step instructions on: http://www.thesmallobject.com/stenopad/wordpress/?p=976

PROJECT: (11:10-12) Create a bracelet using a ribbon picked by each artist.

Step one: Thread ribbon up from behind washer #1. You should leave about 6″ inches of ribbon on the end.

Step Two: Thread ribbon up along the side of washer #2 and back down through the middle. The end should be threaded back through the middle of washer #1. (Still with me…)

Step Three: Pull ribbon tight so washer #2 lies flat against washer #1.

Step Four: Thread ribbon back up through washer #2 so it weaves underneath washer #1.

Step Five: Repeat process. Thread ribbon up alongside edge and back down through the middle of washer #3.

Step Six: Thread end of ribbon back through the middle of washer #2.

Step Seven: Pull ribbon tight to the right so you have all three washers laying flat. Repeat above steps until you have five on your ribbon.

 Step 8: tie it in your wrist. 

MATERIALS: 

Washers

Ribbons in boy and girl styles

Duct tape artwork with Rebecca Ward

DISCUSSION: 10:45-11

Can tape become artwork?

Discussion ideas:

line

space

living artwork

installation of artwork

history of duct tape

If we have a lap top we can show the kids an installation video…

ARTIST: Rebecca Ward: 

(1984-    ) 

American Artist

Installations are site-specific works dependent upon the space they occupy. 

Utilizing existing lines, beams, and angles, each piece I create is informed by the individual site and its unique linear movement.

She chooses patterns and shapes according to detailed measurements of the installation site. 

Ideally these patterns are numerically symmetrical or somehow numerically balanced, producing a dialogue between line and space. 

She began working with tape because of the broad range of colors in which it is available. 

Additionally, I have always been drawn to its unique textural qualities.

She makes videos to create a dialogue with the tape installations. 

She sees the videos as a way to animate the tape installations, and further explore my architectural manipulation of space. 

When using tape, rather than leaving evenly-placed two-dimensional lines upon a wall, I expand upon the material’s sculptural potential and bring these installations into a third dimension. 

When using video, she angles projectors and uses multiple intersecting projections to create animated, two-dimensional shapes. This creates an illusionary space, a perceptual play of pattern, color, light, and texture that is realized by the viewer’s experience of, and interaction with the work.

EXAMPLE of her work below

for more information and art examples: http://www.rebeccasward.com/

PROJECT: 11-12

Create a unique piece of art using tape on card stock

Step1: take a moment to think about what you would like to create

A picture of something

Lines and shapes

Step2: pick colors of tape you would like to use

Step3: using scissors begin to cut the tape in the right sizes and shapes for your ideas

Step4: begin to create your piece on paper

MATERIALS:

Duct Tape

Card stock

Duct Tape Wallet/Clutch

DISCUSSION: 

Duct Tape What is it????

How many different colors does it come in? 

                what can it do?

                where have you used duct tape?

               have you ever seen duct tape used in art?
               have you ever used duct tape in your artwork?

History: Duct tape: is a polyethylene multi-purpose tape with a soft and flexible shell and pressure sensitive adhesive. 

It is generally silver or black in color but many other 30+ colors have become available. 

Standard width of 1+7⁄8 inches (48 mm)

Duct tape was originally developed during World War II in 1942 as a water resistant sealing tape for ammunition cases. 

Johnson & Johnson, used a rubber-based adhesive to help the tape resist water and a fabric backing to add strength. 

It was also used to repair military equipment quickly, including jeeps, firearms, and aircraft because of these properties.

In military circles, this variant is known as "gun-tape", typically olive-green, and also known for its resistance to oils and greases. 

PROJECT Duct Tape Wallet 9:30-10:30

Step 1: fold a sheet of tag board (long way for wallet, in half for a clutch

Step 2: cut two pieces of tape and fold in half over both ends

Step 2: Unfold the paper. pick fun colors cut and tape all the way down the front

Step 3: Fold the paper back, finish both sides with a piece of tape to close

Step 4: For Clutch: cut a piece of tape to 15" fold in half all but both ends. attach ends to the tag board

Step 5 : Personalize with strips and symbols of colored duct tape

MATERIALS: 

Duct Tape in several colors and patterns

Scissors

Tag board