Flowers with Georgia O'Keeffe (ASAP)

Discussion: 

ARTIST: Georgia O’keeffe 

known for painting large flowers

Show the examples of her work  in the book provided

            What Details do you see in her work

            can you see the veins of the flowers?

            what colors does she use?

            how do you think she created this artwork

            Do you see line? Shape?

ARTIST: Georgia O'Keeffe

         (1887-1986)

         * American abstract painter born in Wisconsin. 

* She attended the Art Institute of Chicago, 

* the Art Student's League in New York, 

* Colombia Teacher's College in New York. She was an art teacher 

* all of the above before she became a full time artist. 

* married A very famous photographer

* She was a leader in the development of the American Modernism Movement. 

* O'Keeffe painted still lifes, massive flowers, the New York at Night series, southwestern landscapes and stark bones found in the desert. 

* In 1939, she was selected as one of the twelve most outstanding women of the past fifty years by the New York World's Fair Committee. 

* Her painting, Sunset-Long Island, was chosen to represent New York in an exhibition of the art of the United States at the World's Fair. 

* In 1985, O'Keeffe was granted the Medal of Arts by President Ronald Reagan

for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

PROJECT:

Fill the small card with a flower and wonderful color

Step 1: You will need oil pastels and a 3x3 card

Step 2: use a pencil to lightly draw your flower. Feel free to have it run off the page like our artist

Step3: Using oil pastel Fill your flower with color and fill in your background. 

             remember to apply weight to the oil pastel so it goes on very thick

             you can blend the colors with your fingers or the blending stick

MATERIALS: 

Cray pas

3x3 card stock

pencils

Shrinky Dink Hearts with Jim Dine

Preschool Lesson Plan:

DISCUSSION: 

Hearts and drawing hearts 

How do we draw a heart?

First we draw the letter m or the number three laying down

Then we draw a V under neth: let’s try it

Pop Art: what is popular for you guys?

What do you enjoy doing or playing with at home?

If you were to draw your most favorite toy what would you draw?

Pop artists took simple items or poular culture items and turned them into fine art

ARTIST:  Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935)

 American pop artist.

 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended the University of Cincinnati 

Received a BFA from Ohio University in 1957. 

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

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking gallery show:  New Painting of Common Objects.

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

These painters started a movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the Art world and changed modern Art forever, "Pop Art".

In the early 1960s Dine produced pop art with items from everyday life. These provided commercial as well as critical success

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

READ  HUGVILLE talk about how getting a hug makes your heart grow!!!

PROJECT: using clear shrinky dink paper cut into 31/2” squares ( these hearts will be mounted together as one project for the auction. 

Step1: on the ROUGH side of the square ask the kids to draw a heart

Step2: fill in the heart and the background to create your finished project

MATERIALS:
colored pencils

Clear shrinky dink paper (found it at michaels) cut to 31/2” squares

To prepare the finished work:

Ikea has beautiful frames with mattes included

Pick your Frame/matte

Use the matte to cut an illustration board to the right size

Using a pencil draw light lines to show where the matte begins so you know where to place the shrinky dinks.

Use glue circles to glue shrinky dinks to illustration board

Finish and pop it into a frame


adaption: 
Romaro Britto: 

Repetition Cupcakes with Wayne Thiebuad (ASAP)

Preschool Lesson plan:


Discussion: Repetition and Pattern

What does it mean to repeat something?

   To do it over and over

What is a pattern? Ababababa

Something that repeats

Letters, numbers, pictures

Where do we see pattern everyday?

Wallpaper

Clothing

Read a book about pattern

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

Project:  create a pattern by painting cupcakes

Step 1: Draw a square

Step2: draw a half circle on top of the square

Step3: Paint the square

Step4: paint the dome

Step5: paint the background

Step6: add details: sprinkles, candles, etc…

MATERIALS: canvas

Brushes

Acrylic paints in bright colors

Shrinky Dink Stars with Ryan McGinness (ASAP)

Discussion: Symbols 

What is a symbol?

What does a heart stand for? 

A lightbulb?

When you see a woman in a dress on a door what is behind the door?

A Star? What does it mean? How does it make us feel to get a star on our test?

What artist’s have used stars in their artwork?

Show any piece of  art from Ryan McGinness

How does he use symbols in his artwork?

        Overlap? how does he overlap in his work?

Why does he layer them?

Is he trying to get us to think about where we see symbols in our daily lives?

ARTIST: 

RYAN MCGINNESS

1971-

American artist, 

living and working in New York City. 

He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia

studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. 

During college, he worked at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant. 

Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, 

McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments.
for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_McGinness

PROJECT 1: Using a star create an interesting statement on shrinky dink paper

Step1: Draw a star on the ROUGH side of the paper

Step2: fill in the star anyway you like, pattern, etcd.

Step3: fill in the background, think of the colors you will use

Step4: label your shrinky dink with your name

MATERIALS: 

Shrinky dinks

Colored pencils

Geometric Shapes and Color Mixing with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: Geometric Shape: from mathematics

Geometric shapes can be solved by a mathematical equation 

Let’s think of some: square, rectangle, circle, oval, triangle, etc...

Look at Van Gogh’s Bedroom: let's reduce all the shapes in the room into geometric shapes. Can you find a square: the two pillows

 Can you find a circle: The seats of the chairs

Color Wheel: Draw out the color wheel. 

Primary Colors: Red, blue Yellow

what does primary mean?

what makes these colors special?

Secondary colors: orange, green, violet

Look at Van Gogh’s Bedroom: Find each of the primary and secondary colors

ARTIST: 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 more information, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

PROJECT: Recreate Van Gogh’s Bedroom

Step1: in pencil: Draw the objects in the room by reducing them to geometric shapes

for example: the bed is a large square at the bottom

                                         a rectangle in the middle 

                                         the headboard is another rectangle with two square pillows.

Step 2: Paint in all the primary colors first

yellow bed, red blanket,  blue doors and vase, etc.

Step 3: create your first secondary color: Green and paint in all green objects, Window, chair seat, etc...

Step 4: create your second secondary color: orange: paint in all orange objects

Table, frames coat hanger

Step5: mix your final color purple and paint the walls with it 

Step6: add anything additionally that you might need to make the scene yours

MATERIALS: 

Tempura paint in red, yellow and blue

pencils

thick white paper

Paper plates for paint

Paint brushes

additional pictures of student work: