3D Pattern with Frank Stella

DISCUSSION: revisit Line and shape in discussion

Pattern and form

What is pattern?  What do we need to create pattern? 

Where do we see patterns in everyday life? clothing,      wallpaper

what do we need to make a pattern: repetition

Artist: Frank Stella 

Frank Stella (born May 12,1936) 

            An American painter and printmaker. 

He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.

He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. 

After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, 

he went on to Princeton University, 

where he painted, influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock 

Early visits to New York art galleries would prove to be an influence upon his artistic development. 

Stella moved to New York in 1958 after his graduation.

He is one the most well-regarded postwar American painters who still works today. Frank Stella has reinvented himself in consecutive bodies of work over the course of his five-decade career.

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990’s the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s paintings gave way to full three- dimensionality, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, French curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements. To create these works, the artist used collages or maquettes that were then enlarged and re-created with the aid of assistants, industrial metal cutters, and digital technologies.

Project: 

Create a Frank Stella work using pattern and stapler

Step 1: draw lines to create large open scribbles with a sharpie marker (they should connect but be large

Step2:  fill in each of these large shapes with different patterns Circles, squares, lines, dots, repetition

Step3:  Cut out a strange shape from another piece of paper

Step4: fill in that shape with pattern

Step5: staple the shape onto your large work but allow it to pop out a bit

Step4: add three or five of these stapled shapes to have a finished work

Materials: 

Stapler

Paper

Markers

Black Sharpie marker

Portraits with Leonardo da Vinci

DISCUSSION:What is a portrait?

Have you ever had one made of yourself? Yes, school photo is a portrait

What does a portrait need to be a portrait?

a PERSON!!!

What does a person have on their face?

eyes, nose hair, mouth, ears, eyebrows, cheeks, etc...

Take a look at the Mona Lisa Portrait drawn by Leonardo da Vinci

What do you see in this picture?

Eye color? Hair length? where are her hands?

Why is it soooooooo famous?

What is she doing in the portrait?

Is she smiling???

ARTIST: Leonardo Da Vinci:

(April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) 

An Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. 

Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, 

He had unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.

He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".
for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

 PROJECT: 

step1: use oil pastels to draw your face                                                             

step2: do forget: eyes, hair, nose, ears, 

Step3: Fill in as much with the pastels as you would like

Step4: Using watercolors palettes will in the background

MATERIALS: 

card stock

Watercolors              

Oil pastels

Andy Warhol Repetition POP Ornament Trees

Discussion: Repetition: 

 What does it mean to repeat something?

where do we see that in art?

ABABABABA....? B Pattern

Shapes? What shapes have we talked about?

sqaures, triangles, circles,


Show the Tiffany Holiday book or print photos of a piece of are Warhol did for tiffany's that had repetition. 


What shapes do you see?
Count How many there are?
How many different  shapes are there?
What do the shapes make when he puts them all together
What do the shapes have on them: pattern

Artist: Andy Warhol

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), 

Born Andrew Warhola 

An American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker 

leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. 

After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, 

Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter

He was also filmmaker, record producer, author, 

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.

 He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." 

The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. 

Died during routine gallbladder surgery in 1987 

PROJECT: Create a repetition Christmas tree using circles

Step 1: On White paper draw two spirals at the bottom

Step2: On top of the spirals draw three circles

Step3: on top of the Circles draw two more circles

Step4:On top of those two circles draw one more circle

Step5: On top of that circle draw three lines across one another to make a star in black

Step6: Fill in each circle like an ornament with lines or dots or color it in in all colors

Step7: add any other details all around

Step8: Paint the whole page with yellow watercolor

MATERIALS: 

Oil Pastels

Card stock in white

Yellow or Gold watercolor

Line Portfolios with Howard Finster

Discussion

Line: how important is line in art?

Can we even have any art without line?

where do we find line in nature?

lets think of all the fun lines we can think of and where we might see them

Artist: Howard Finster 

1916-2001

American, folk

He is perhaps the most famous self-taught artist of all time. 

Born in Alabama, he attended school for only 6 years. 

He was a jack-of-all-trades: house painter, bicycle and lawnmower repairman

Howard was a Baptist Minister for about 40 years until, in 1965, he realized no one in his congregation was listening to him. 

In 1976 an angel appeared upon the paint on his finger and said“paint art”.  

Finster and his family produced some 50,000 works many of which were signed, dated and numbered. 

Show his work and discuss

PROJECT: 

Create Finster hands with line

Step1: on your portfolio lay both hands and cross some fingers at the top

Step 2: a parent or  I will come by and trace your hands very quickly

Step3: using black marker begin to fill both hands will tons of different lines

Step4: try to stay inside the lines. Fill each finger

Step5: finish by adding fun color on top like Finster did

MATERIALS:

Poster board cut in half for preschoolers

black sharpies for lines

Markers to fill in the space between the lines

Imagination Color Wheel Forests with Marc Chagall

 DISCUSSION: 

Color wheel

primary Colors

Secondary Colors

Mouse Paint

Show Chagall 

what do you think of this piece?

Do you see the upside down houses?

Do you see a large animal with a tiny animal on it’s face?

What about a tree?

Do you see a giant green face?

Are all the primary colors there?

what about secondary?

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

worked from dreams and imagination

Mastered stain glass in his sixties

PROJECT: CREATE A COLOR WHEEL FOREST

PREPARATION: create primary colored squeeze bottles for this project

where is says mix add both colors to that section of their paper

Step1: On the left side, top of your page, Paint a red tree top

Step2: On the Right side top of your page paint a yellow tree top

Step3: On the bottom middle of your page paint a blue tree bottom

Step4: Mix the color Orange and on the middle top paint an orange tree top

Step5: Mix the color Green and on the bottom right of our paper paint the color green

Step 6: Mix the color purple and paint a tree bottom on teh bottom left of your paper

Step 7: along the very bottom of your page add black watercolor 

Step8: Now tilt your page so the watercolor trickles into the treetops creating our forest. 

MATERIALS:

Squeeze bottles filled with Primary colored tempura paint

Black watercolor

white tag board

brushes

Shade and Tint Gum Ball Machines with Wayne Thiebaud

DISCUSSION: How do we make colors lighter

pink, clouds, light

Tint adding white to colors

How do we make colors darker?

Black: shadows, shade

Shade: adding black to colors

When light hits an object it becomes lighter

If an object has no light it is darker

ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud 

(born November 15, 1920) 

He is an American painter 

whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. 

He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture,

 although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. 

Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects

well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.

PROJECT: Create a gum ball machine using shade and tint

Step1: with black oil pastel draw a circle in the middle of the page

Step2: draw a square underneath the gum ball machine

Step3: draw a small rectangle on the bottom of the square color it grey

Step4: color in the large square any color

Step5: fill in the large circle with gum ball stickers

Step 6: on the right side draw in a shadow from the square to the right side of the page

Step 7: on the tops of all the gun balls add a small speck of white

MATERIALS:

oil pastels

white tag board

primary colored circle labels

Value Trees with Eric Carle

Discussion: Value: 

Hold up different colors of green and ask what color it is

how can six colors of green all be green???

Value we have talked about adding white to colors

what did it do? makes them lighter

What happens if we added black to colors?

it would make them darker

Blue becomes navy

  green becomes olive

Artist: Eric Carle

1929-

American illustrator

Famous illustrating over 70 children’s books including Brown Bear

Uses Collage to create his artwork

His art work is created in the collage technique

He uses hand painted papers

He cuts and layers each piece of collage to create bright cheerful images

Went to art school in Germany

worked as a graphic artist for the NY Times

Bring an Eric Carle book to share with the class

PROJECT: Create a tree using values of green and triangles

Step 1: On Blue Paper, paste on a tree trunk in brown rectangle

Step2: on the truck paste a green triangle

Step3: on top of the triangle paste another value of green triangle

Step4: repeat until you have five triangles on to of one another creating a tree

Step5: Using two small yellow triangles add a star on top of your tree

Step6: using stripes of cut words from magazines paste three on top of each other 

creating a snow flake

Step7: repeat until you have three snow flakes on your page

Step8: fill in more snowflakes with white oil pastels 

Step9: if time allows teh students could add a 3 to 5 ornaments to the tree using

buttons or sequins or more collage materials

MATERIALS: 

values of greens pre-cut into triangles

magazines, scrap paper

Two pre-cut yellow triangles

Glue

words from magazines cut into stripes for snowflakes

white oil pastels

Brown or olive tree trunks

ADAPTIONS: could create christmas trees with ornaments and presents

For older groups of children you could create a two week project and have them cut, create and prepare all the values of green for the project.