Art Show at Sutterville Preschool

Art Show at Leonardo Da Vinci School

Art show for VSA

Under the Sea Murals with Wyland!!!

Discussion: Murals: what are they?

Where might we see a mural in our town?

What can be on a mural

Why would an artist paint a mural

Look at one or more of Wylnads pieces.

What do you see?

How do they make you feel?

Do you want to be a fish?

Do you feel like a fish?

Robert Wyland (born 1956), known simply as Wyland, is an artist best known for painting large, outdoor murals of whales and other ocean life.

Wyland has earned the distinction as one of America’s most unique creative influences, 

he is a leading advocate for marine resource conservation. 

An accomplished painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, and SCUBA diver, 

he has traveled the farthest reaches of the globe for more than twenty-five years, capturing the raw power and beauty of the undersea universe.

PROJECT: 

Step1: first, using foam paint brushes, add one beautiful coral along the bottom of our coral reef mural in Pink, Brown or lime green

Step2: Next add one small fish in blue or orange using the side of your paint brush

Step3: last using a straw, BLOW like milk, and make bubbles. Take your cup to the mural, place it against the mural, and blow the bubbles onto the mural. add them all over to make our mural look like water. Use Dark Blue, Turq and light blue.

MATERIALS: 

Paint and large brushes in Brown Pink and lime green

Paint and small brushes in orange and yellow

Cups with liquid paint in white, light blue and dark blue

Straws

Large blue paper for mural

Spring Happy Accident Flowers with Raoul Dufy

Discussion: Look at Raoul Dufy’s Flower II 

What do you see in the picture?

How many different flowers

What shapes make up the flowers

When combined what does it look like?

How about the color he chose? is it a rainy day?

Background Color: the color AROUND The flowers, what color is it? Yellow

How did he make a rose? Swirly

How did he draw the irises? Heart

How did he draw the babies breath? just dots.

Raoul Dufy

(3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) 

He was a French Fauvist painter. 

He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. 

He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. 

He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, a theatrical set-dresser, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces

He worked with Matisse and was influenced by Cezanne

Project Create watercolor wash flowers over black line

ALL STAY TOGETHER TO CREAT FINAL PROJECT. STUDENTS WILL FOLLOW A SERIES OF INSTRUCTIONS:

Step1: working from the top of your page to the bottom

Step2: top left: make a series of small circles

Step3: in the middle top make the letter v and put a circle on the top

Step4: repeat same shape again on the right

Step5: On the left middle draw larger circles in two rows and add a line between

Step6: next to that add in a organic leaf shape and add a line down the middle and veins

Step7: in the center of your paper add a diamond, create more and more lines around until it looks like a flower

Step8: Draw a heart and add the letter v underneth

Step9 on the bottom add in a v with a circle on top

Step10: add a few leaf shapes

Step11: color in any flower you want to remain WHITE with a white oil pastel

Step12: using clear water paint your first flower

Step13: drop in color

Step14: add clear water to your second flower and drop in color

Continue with your bouquet until it is complete

Fill in the background yellow last

MATERIALS: liquid watercolors

watercolor paper

Brushes

Water

sharpie pens

white oil pastels

Folk Art Tissue Birds with Maud Lewis and Grandma Moses

DISCUSSION: folk Art: 

what is folk art? art without formal training

are we folk artists? 

Look at our two examples of folk art

how are they the same?

how are they different?

Maud lewis 

Maud Lewis  1903-1970

Nova Scotia, Canada

Born in Ohio

She suffered from disabilities as a result of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

lived most of her life in poverty with her husband in Marshalltown. 

he began her artistic career by hand-drawing Christmas cards. 

These proved popular with her husband's customers as he sold fish door to door and encouraged her to begin painting. 

She used bright colors in her paintings and subjects were often of oxen teams, horses, or cats. 

All of her paintings are of outdoor scenes. 

Her house was one-room with a sleeping loft and is now located in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax.

Most of Maud Lewis' paintings are quite small - often no larger than eight by ten inches

She is known to have done at least three paintings 16 inches by 20 inches. 

Her technique consisted of first drawing an outline and then applying paint directly out of the tube. 

She never mixed colors.

She painted on everything in the home as she often did not have enough money to buy supplies
for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Lewis

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), 

better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. 

She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age

She did not start painting until she was 7-0

Began painting to give as gifts she said it was easier then cooking a present.

sold her paintings for $2 and $3 dollars.

Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses," she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses," yet the press eagerly dubbed her "Grandma Moses," which stuck." [1] 

LIFE magazine celebrated her 100th birthday by featuring her on its September 19, 1960 cover.

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

PROJECT: create folk art inspired bird drawing with tissue paper

Step1: brush onto your page a mixture of glue and water

Step2: place in pre-cut squares of all different tissue paper

slightly overlapping edges is good but don’t overlap too much

Step3: fill your page with the tissue

Step4: using squeeze bottle squeeze in a bird on top of your tissue

circle for the head

oval for the body

half circles for wings

rectangle for tail feather

triangle for the beak

small circle for the eye

add a heart in the middle if you like.

MATERIALS: tissue, water and glue mixture, black glue mixture in squirt bottle.

Chenille Stem Mesh Kandinsky Art

DISCUSSION: Line, Shape, Color.

Line: go over each and talk about how they might make us feel

Angled or curved

Shape: go over several geometric shapes again and talk about how it makes them feel? circle vs. square

Organic shapes: more free, of nature not so regimented.

Color: go over colors again and talk about how they make us feel. Red vs. blue etc.

Expressionist artwork: Expressionism was a cultural movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the start of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world in an utterly subjective perspective, radically distorting it for emotional effect, to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and emotional experience rather than physical reality.

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

ARTIST:

Wassily Kandinsky 

1866-1944

Russian Painter

Taught art in Munich Germany for ten years

Moved to Paris in 1933 became a citizen in 1939

He was excited by COLOR as a child

He related painting to playing music

Credited with painting the first modern abstract

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

PROJECT: Create chenille stem “paintings” with plastic mesh canvas

Step1: using black stems add in a strong (angles or curves) line somewhere on your canvas

Step2: now add two geometric shapes in different colors

step3: add one organic shape in a third color

Step4: think about your color choices as you begin to fill in the remainder as you see fit

add more shapes, lines, color, pattern etc.

Step5: the canvas must be filled in all the way

MATERIALS:

chenille stems in every color and black

dick blick mesh canvas

The end result is a large mesh quilt. All student art is quilted together for the art show. 

I adapted this cool project from a dick blick lesson plan: 

http://cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/chenille-stem-stitchery/chenille-stem-stitchery-chenille-stem-stitchery.pdf