BIG MOUTH Pinch Pot Fish with Claes Oldenburg and Vincent Scarpace

WEEK 2

DISCUSSION: look at the examples of Scarpace fish

What do you notice first?

How big are the eyes

Is there pattern on the fish

Do you see shapes, lines?

how many fish are in the piece?

J. Vincent Scarpace

1971-

American Artist

Born: Buffalo, New York

His original works are “a personal journey through the use of basic of art elements: line, shape, and color - resulting in an arrival at unique works of art which purposely resemble fish.”

He’s followed his passion for the creative process, the pursuit of one’s own creative potential.

J. Vincent knew from an early age exactly what he wanted to do with his life.

encouraged from about age 2 to pursue line, shape, and color, and the creation of art.

J’s mother, artist, taught young J. Vincent how to enjoy drawing, painting, and sculpture very early on.

Having worked as an apprentice, production artist, and studio artist .

J. Vincent holds a BS in Education (Art and Education),

after several years of teaching in both private and public schools, he’s now a former teacher, "retired" very early, to his studio to continue his creative journey and drive toward the creation of unique works of abstract fish art. Today, J. Vincent Scarpace’s original works can be found in private and public collections in over 40 countries and in all 50 U.S. States.

He is currently in art galleries, in numerous restaurants, and in many corporate and professional collections. J. resides in College Station, TX 

http://www.ipaintfish.com/

PROJECT: create Scarpace style fish with paint

Step1: paint the inside of the mouth a fun color

Step2: paint the eyes white

Step3: paint the fish with stripes, dots and or all one color

step4: finish the eye by adding a dot for the fish to see

step5: add any additional details: gills, scales, ect.

MATERIALS: 

Kilned fish created in week 1

gloss acrylic paint

paint brushes

I adapted this project wonderful for the preschooler age group. For more information on this project: http://www.theclayteacher.com/bigmouth_fish_clay_project.html 

TWO WEEK PROJECT

DISCUSSION: Form and Claes Oldenburg

Clay: what is it? Where does it come from?

  what can you make with it?

  when you make things with clay are they flat like paper?

Form and sculpture

How is sculpture different then what we have done so far?

If you look on the back of a painting what might you find?

If you look on the back of a sculpture of a person what will you find?

Can you touch a sculpture in a museum? how about a park?

We looked at Dropped Cone, 2001, Neumarkt Galerie, Cologne, Germany. 

 The children really respond to this piece esp. after we had studied Wayne Theibaud's Ice cream cones.

ARTIST: Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) 

Swedish sculptor, 

He is best known best known for his public art installations 

Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art.

In the 1960s he became associated with the Pop Art movement and created many so-called happenings, which were performance art related productions of that time.

His work typically features very large replicas of everyday objects. 

Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects.
for additional information, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg

Project: Pinch Pot Fish

Step1: after warming your clay create a ball

Step2: using your thumb to push in and your fingers to go around begin to create a hole in the

clay

Step3: continue going around until you have a little pot. don’t let your sides get too thin

Step4: from the bottom of the pot pinch out a fish tail

Step5: at the front of the pot pinch the sides together to make a big smile

Materials: 

Clay 

Jungle Landscapes with Henry Rousseau

I work at my children's school, LDV, with the Art Link program. We were asked by the Cheetah Wildlife Foundation to create works of art to be on display and sold at  well-known gallery here in Sacramento. 

Here is the lesson plan idea we used during the two Open Studio events:

LANDSCAPES: 

To have a landscape you have a horizon line

The horizon line separates the earth from the sky. The line is horizontal and usually the middle of the page. It is not always straight.

Foreground: bottom of your paper things are brightly colored, big and details

Middle ground: middle of the paper less detail, smaller and less colored

Background: Top of the page no detail, small and dull color

Henri Rousseau 

1844-1910

French artist

He was a self taught artist who often painted images of jungle scenes and animals. 

His work was usually bright and colorful 

He took up painting as a hobby and accepted early retirement in 1893 so he could devote himself to art.

He is part of the Post impressionists.

He showed his extraordinary ability to retain the utter freshness of his vision even when working on a large scale and with loving attention to detail

He is best know for his Sleeping Gypsy painting of 1897.

PROJECT: Create a Rousseau Style painting for wildlife foundation

Step1: grab your matte board and pencil

Step2: LIGHTLY draw your jungle scene. Be sure to include an animal, plants, and a tree

Thin about where to draw each Your cheetah could be in your foreground

or middle ground but to be in the background he would have to be 

where? up in a tree

Plants should be everywhere. Large in the front and small in the back

Step3: decide what materials you will use in the artwork

watercolors and oil pastels

tempura paint

Step4: think about what colors you want where and begin to apply them

Step5: continue until you feel the work is complete.

MATERIALS: watercolor

tempura paint

pencils

oil pastels

"Smiles for Haiti" Art Show and Fundraiser

Art Show and Fundraiser

 March 12, 2011

DEEP Gallery 

21 and H

6-9 pm

This is a collaboration of paintings by students in our volunteer-run art program, Art Links, at Leonardo da Vinci School and the paintings of 26 children in a field camp/orphanage in Tabarre, Haiti.  The LdV community Art Show coordinator, Sue Mahon and I have been providing ideas and sending materials for art therapy at the field station.

Shortly after the devastating earthquake, HOV Haiti was formed to aid this particular orphanage/field station. HOV is based in Tortola, The British Virgin Islands. The volunteers have been traveling to Haiti periodically, delivering donated supplies and working with the children and caregivers. Our art show and sale is for the purpose of raising funds to especially provide basic supplies and food to sustain the children and staff.

For more information:  handsonvolunteers@yahoo.com

Positive and Negative space collage with Matisse

DISCUSSION: Complementary Colors:

Let’s revisit color for a moment so that we might learn how to use it to our artist advantage

Emphasis: what does this word mean?

How do we emphasis parts of our art we want the viewer to notice?

Look at Matisse’s first painting: what do you notice first? ALL THE RED

and second? the green window

Red and green are OPPOSITE on the color wheel. 

Placing these two colors next to each other draws your attention.

Name another two colors that would use this idea? and the last?

Positive and negative space?

What is positive space?

If I am a sculpture what is positive space?

What is negative space?

How important and what role does each serve?

could the space not filled (negative) ever speak louder then the positive space?

Look again at his first piece: you noticed the red first...That is Negative space.

What story could we tell about the piece.

Look at the second work: what is positive space?

What do you notice first 

What does this work remind you of

is it the same on both sides?

Artist: Henri Matisse 1869-1954

French Painter, 

Studied law until he was 21

Mother gave him a paint box after surgery and he discovered painting

In 1891 set off for Paris. 

Matisse began his journey of studies which ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. 

Matisse felt that his greatest influence had been the work of the artist Cezanne (1839 – 1906, French). 

In the 1950‘s, Matisse began creating paintings using paint and paper cut outs. 

In his last years, as he aged and fell ill, Matisse continued to paint, this time on the walls of his room, using a piece of charcoal attached to the end of a bamboo pole. 

He painted until his death in 1954. 

Matisse had strong feelings about only one thing, the act of painting. 

The purpose of these pictures, he always asserted, was to give pleasure. 

For additional information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse 

PROJECT: create complementary, positive and neg space symmetrical  collage

Step1: choose what two colors you are going to use (must be complementary)

Step2: get one half sheet and one whole sheet of construction paper

Step3: Use your half sheet to cut out positive shapes Organic or geometric

Step4: continue until you have 5-7 pieces cut out 

Step5: Glue down your Negative space sheet on one half of your large construction paper

Step6: using your positive cut-out begin to match up on the opposite side 

Step7: continue until all items are glued on your paper

MATERIALS: Construction paper, Scissors, Glue

Symmetrical butterflies with Andy Warhol

DIscussion: Symmetry: what does this word mean?

Balance

We know something is balanced if it is the SAME on two sides. 

As artist how do we create symmetry?

What parts of Warhol’s butterfly is exactly symmetrical?

What parts are different?

How does he use color? and shape?

Asymmetrical: Different of two sides but balanced

Look at Van Gogh’s bedroom to discuss this concept

Andy Warhol

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

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

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.

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

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

PROJECT: Create a symmetrical Butterfly inspired by Andy Warhol

Step1: Fold a piece of Card Stock in half

Step2: On one half of the page draw half a butterfly in oil pastel

Step3: Fold the paper and rub until the butterfly transfers to the other half

Step4: draw in the lines so the two sides match 

Step5: using oil pastel draw in details on the wings, line on the body any ideas to make your

Butterfly unique. All details on one wing need to also on be on the other wing. 

Step6: using watercolor paint in the butterfly so it is symmetrical 

Step7: use oil pastel and paint the background another color and design. It does not have to be symmetrical. 

MATERIALS: 

Card Stock

Oil pastels

watercolor

cups

brushes

I was inspired to expand upon a lesson plan from one of my favorite sites: http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2009/02/symmetrical-butterflies/