Pattern Gum balls with Wayne Thiebaud

TWO WEEK PROJECT

WEEK ONE: 

DISCUSSION: repetition, pattern, Pop Art

Show one of Wayne Theibaud's Gum ball Machines

Where do we see repetition in this artwork

Where else?

What does this piece of art make you think of?

How does the gum taste? Does each color taste different?

Do you see where the light hits the gum balls inside the glass?

How did Mr Thiebaud create light? white 

How did he create shadows? black 

ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud 

(born November 15, 1920) 

He is an American painter 

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,

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 pattern bubble gum from shrinky dinks

Step1: use colored pencils to create a pattern on the round shrinky dink

Step2: shrink them in a toaster oven

Step3: using clear adhesive adhere the shrinky dink to the clear rock

step4: place adhesive magnet on the back of the shrinky dink rock. 

Materials:

shrinky dink paper cut to 2 inch circles

clear rocks 1” flat on one side bubbled on the other (dollar store, 30 for one dollar, in floral supply)

clear silicone glue to adhere shrinky dinks to rocks

button magnets 

colored pencils

WEEK 2

DISCUSSION: 
Review Artist information
Review pattern

ALL STUDENT ART PROJECT: 
what is it?
why do we create an all student art project?

PROJECT: create a gum ball machine on a wooden board
preparation: buy a wooden board and have it cut to 18x24
divide the board into 3"x3" squares
label the squares with numbers to make a paint by number for students to create
Make plates of paint with corresponding numbers for the painting

Step1: Students get to paint one of the 3" by 3" squares in the color/colors it is labeled. 

MATERIALS: 
Paint
wooden board in 18x24
paint brushes

Assemblage Sculpture with Louise Nevelson

TWO WEEK PROJECT

DISCUSSION: Assemblage

What is Assemblage?

How is it like Collage?

Is it 2-D or 3-D

Monochromatic

How does artwork in all one color effect the work? 

ARTIST:

Louise Nevelson (August 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) 

American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. 

Born in Czarist Russia, she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century when she was three years old. 

Nevelson learned English at school, as she spoke Yiddish at home. 

By the early 1930s she was attending art classes at the Art Students League of New York, 

In 1941 she had her first solo exhibition. 

A student of Hans Hoffman and Chaim Gross, Nevelson experimented with early conceptual art using found objects, and dabbled in painting and printing before dedicating her lifework to sculpture. 

Usually created out of wood, her sculptures appear puzzle-like, with multiple intricately cut pieces placed into wall sculptures or independently standing pieces, often 3-D. 

A figure in the international art scene, Nevelson was showcased at the 31st Venice Biennale. 

Her work is seen in major collections in museums and corporations. 

Louise Nevelson remains one of the most important figures in 20th-century American sculpture.

WEEK ONE:

Project: Create an assemblage from objects you have on your desk. 

Step1: glue four craft sticks together at the corners

Step2: fill in the top with several craft sticks to make a stand

Step3: find objects and glue them to your flat square

Step4: continue gluing until you are happy with your finished result

Materials:

Found objects of all sorts

wood 

beads

old jewelry

corks

craft sticks

Tacky glue


WEEK TWO: 


DISCUSSION: 
review artist
review assemblage
monochromatic


PROJECT:
preparation: combine black paint with glue


Step1: add black paint with glue to the entire sculpture


MATERIALS:
Black Paint
Glue
Paint Brushes

Positive and negative space with Andy Warhol

Preparation: Cut stars out of sticky foam sheets and place them on wooden blocks to make stampers. 

Discussion: Positive and negative shapes

Show Warhol’s work of the star tree

What do you think of this piece?

Cut out a star from paper

which is positive and which is negative?
POP art

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

Using large star cut outs and small star stamps create a negative star shape

Step1: Place the large star in the center of the paper

Step2: using the star stamps, stamp on stars all around the paper

Step3: continue with all the colors

Step4: remove the large star to reveal the negative star shape. 

Materials:

Large star cut outs

Small star stamps

tempura paint 

tag board or card stock

Form in Wire with Claire Falkenstein

blue tape on the left side of the picture has the students name for identification for upcoming art show. 

Discussion: Form

What is form? 

How is it different then a painting?

what is space?

Negative space?

Positive space?

Claire Falkenstein, 

Body Centered Cubic

on display at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA

Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997) 

American artist and sculptor

Through her long and prolific career, Claire explored every medium, from sculpture, drawings and paintings to prints, wallpaper and jewelry. 

An Oregon native who worked in Paris, France, the San Francisco Bay area and Venice, California. 

Falkenstein is best known for her monumental sculptures as well as her more intimately-scaled prints and jewelry. 

Falkenstein experimented endlessly, learning about metals by melting them in spoons over a kitchen stove. 

Soon, she was manipulating gold, silver, platinum, brass, copper and steel into necklaces, brooches, rings as well as large-scale sculpture.

Working in Italy in the late 1950's, she made one of her great discoveries, devising a way to virtually "fuse" glass and metal—two very different materials in behavior and chemistry—into single pieces. 

This combination of materials became the hallmark of her creative production.

While she was working small, Falkenstein was thinking big. 

Gradually abandoning traditional media like wood and clay, she began producing large-scale sculptures, fountains and other structures using innovative glass and metal techniques first explored in her highly experimental jewelry.

SAFETY discussion is necessary for this project. I gave the students 3 feet of wire. If students are too close together someone could get hurt. If you can not spread students out, coil up the wire while children work and remind them at all times to be safe.

Project: create a small wire sculpture with beads

Step1: know that you must be gentle while working with wire

Step2: decide on a shape, our artist used the shape of a square. YOu finished product should be no bigger then your fist

Step3: as you begin to twist and mold your wire into a shape remember your beads 

Step4: add in all beads into your sculpture 

Step5: add in a small colored wire as your last step

Materials:

Beads

Wire 3 feet, Dick Blick wire for students. 

1 Twistezze per child, Dick Blick

Sculpture with Bean Finneran

Discussion:

Form

Space

Monochromatic

Artist and 20,000 curves

20,000 turquoise curves

Bean Finneran

On display at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Artist: Bean Finneran (1971-     )

Cleveland Born

Career beginnings in avant-garde theater in Boston

Designed Jewelry in San Francisco

returned to painting 

eventually began to roll and stack clay

Project: Create a sculpture piece inspired by this work of art

Step1: start with a styrofoam florist cone. 

Step2: cut chenille stems in half or close to half

Step3: add a bead on the end of each half and bend the stem so the bead does not fall off

Step4: place the 1/2 pipe cleaner in the cone

Step5: continue working on this project until you have it completed and are happy with the results

Note: Students will study monochromatic color schemes, pipe cleaners will be displayed by color but if a student wants to use multi colored pipe cleaners they will not be discouraged. 

MATERIALS: 

One styrofoam florist cone per student

50 pipe cleaners per student   http://www.dickblick.com/products/chenille-kraft-stems/

Multi-colored beads for the ends   http://www.dickblick.com/products/pony-beads/

Tinted Cool Colors and Warm Tree drops with FawazO

DISCUSSION: warm and cool colors

What are they 

Why are the warm or cool?

How do we make colors lighter?

How do we make colors darker?

Whay would we make colors darker and lighter?

Look at the artwork: Tree of Life; http://fawazo.com/

Discuss the artwork

What do you see

How did he make the roots

How did he make the leaves

Does it look like a tree?

ARTIST: Fawaz AlOlaiwat Aka FawazO, Born September 4th, 1977-  

FawazO lived all his life in Bahrain, A small island in the heart of the Arabian Gulf. 

FawazO is an artist born in color, in culture, in a home for inspirations. 

Rooted to a family of artists, he has spiraled and stemmed, sprouting into the sun.

As an award winning artist FawazO has attracted an international appeal. He displays several paintings in galleries abroad (including Denmark and Dubai).  

Acclaimed, appreciated, and still humble, FawazO expresses suppression, love, romance, peace, and the will to be free in his digital creations.  

He tells his art in layers, in textures, in meaningful colors. 

He forms his art to tell a story, to spark imagination, to awaken curiosity, to ignite passion. 

Most recent in his portfolio is a wide collection of Corporate Identities, and Brand Developments.  

His love for creativity has also inspired him to produce Corporate Art, or as the Artist labels it “BrandArt”.  

PROJECT: Create a drip tree using stencil and warm liquid watercolors

Step1: place the stencil over your paper making sure circle is centered; tape it in place

Step2: using droppers or q-tips: drop warm colored watercolors inside the stencil until you are filled with warm drops or dots

Step3: remove stencil

Step4: using oil pastel: draw a line along the foreground of the page living 2 inches below for roots

Step5: using lines draw in tree trunk and roots below surface; draw them as singular lines and dots on roots like the artist

Step6: add white to green and blue tempura paint

Step7: paint in sky by tree do not touch the tree just paint around the circle

Step8: paint in ground below purple line light green

Materials: 

liquid watercolor

White, blue and green tempura paint

dropper or q-tips

circles stencils

blue tape

Discussion: Pattern, Stripes and stars

To have a pattern with stripes, they must repeat. 

Where do we find stripes? what animals have stripes?

Do tree’s have stripes? where are they?

Horizontal, this word means side to side or across. 

Show Warhol’s work of the stripes tree with stars

What do you think of this piece?

Does it remind you of anything?

Where do we find stars?

look at this print of Warhol's:

http://www.bandagedear.com/featured-product/christmas-tree-ca-1950-1955-multi-by-andy-warhol

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, 

During this time he created holiday prints for Tiffany's

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

For this project we are only going to paint STRIPES with our color:

Step1: using your paint brush, paint one stripe on the bottom of your page

Step 2: paint the next color on top of the first but make it slightly smaller on both sides

Step3: paint the next color on top of the first but make it slightly smaller on both sides

step 4; paint the next color on top of the first but make it slightly smaller on both sides

Step5: paint the last stripe at the very top, this stripe should be the smallest

Step6: add stars to each of your stripes

Step7: add one star on top

MATERIALS: 

Liquid watercolor in five colors: red, blue, pink, green and purple

Paint brushes

metallic sticker stars