DISCUSSION: 

Look at the story book Where the Wild Things Are

What shapes do you see

What shapes are spikes and horns made from?

What Lines do you see?

Do you see organic shapes?

Artist:Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928) 

American writer and illustrator of children's literature.  

He is best known for his book, Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.

One of his first professional commissions was to create window displays for the toy store 

F.A.O. Schwarz. 

His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. 

He spent much of the 1950s illustrating children's books written by others before beginning to write his own stories.

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

PROJECT:

Step1: Using your piece of yarn, lay out and organic shape on your page to begin

Step2: Using Oil Pastels trace the outside of your organic shape. This makes your monsters head

Step3: add 2 geometric shapes for eyes

Step3: add one organic shape for a nose

Step4: add a line for a mouth. WAIT! How does your monster feel? Happy or sad, Angray or confused? This could help make your decision. 

Step5: add two organic shapes for ears

Step4: add 5 geometric shapes for hair

Step5: add spikes, gils, teeth, horns, feathers or any other things you can think of with your black 

Step6: Fill in your geometric/organic monster with colors. 

MATERIALS:

White paper

Black sharpies or oil pastels

Piece of string

All colors of oil pastels

This lesson plan has been adapted from: http://ourartlately.blogspot.com/2011/09/organic-shape-monsters.html

Discussion: Monochromatic? What does this big word mean?

It means one color, That seems boring? 

What would a one color painting look like? 

Show examples, Show Matisse’s Red Studio

How would this room feel to be inside? 

What would you touch if you were there?

Would the room feel BIG or small? 

What does the color red make us feel? 

Would you feel like that if you were there?

Does Matisse have any items in color here? Why? 

ARTIST: Henri Matisse 1869-1954
French Painter,
Studied law until he was 21

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

He attended drawing classes before work; at lunch he would paint. After work he would paint till night fell. 

In 1891 set off for Paris to study

Matisse’s studies ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. 

Matisse’s 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. 

Matisse continued to paint even after he was ill, 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 Matisse, painting was the rhythmic arrangement of line and color on a flat plane. 

He had created the technique of striking contrasts, unmixed hues, flat planes of color (similar to Gauguin, 1848 – 1903, French) 

Expressive brush strokes (similar to Van Gogh, 1853 – 1890, Dutch). 

Light was expressed, not in the method of the Impressionists, but with a harmony of intensely covered surfaces. 

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

PROJECT: Create your favorite room in monochromatic

Step1: Pick a room in your house that is your favorite

Step2: use a white oil pastel and draw several items from your fav. Room

Step3: if one or more items in your room have an important color, fill it in

Step4: Paint your whole paper with red paint to reveal your room

MATERIALS: 

Oil pastels 

red liquid water color

watercolor paper

Texture Tide Pools with Ted Lawson

TWO WEEK PROJECT: 

Recap:

Van Gogh: Warm Colors

Victor Vasarely: Line

Form: Claes Oldenburg

Fawazo:  Tint

Andy Warhol: pattern

Discussion: Texture 

DISCUSSION:

Texture? What is it?

What does your hair feel like?  What does the bottom of your shoe feel like?

What do your pants feel like?  What does tree bark feel like?

Some things are rough like tree bark and the bottom of our shoes

Some things are soft like kittens and our hair

Can we see texture?   Can you smell texture?

Visual Texture, tactile texture. 

Look and talk about Ted Lawson’s Tide pool work. 

Artist:

Ted Lawson

Ted’s initial art training came during high school in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Ted always remained interested in art but a tour in the US Navy and a career in engineering 

delayed his early progress. 

Ted has since studied with nationally known instructors Gerald Brommer, Tony Couch and Fred Graff and continues training and development in watercolor composition and design.

Ted works in watercolors and acrylics primarily in a representational style 

He experiments with non objective and abstract styles. 

He leaves it up to the viewer to use his or her own intellect and experiences to find the underlying meanings. 

Ted likes to create art using "the things that people see and use everyday" as his inspiration. 

His ideas involving common everyday scenes or objects spring from his extensive foreign and domestic travels as well as glimpses of New York City. 

Ted continuously strives to accomplish the goal of creating something that is entertaining and thought provoking for other people to look at and enjoy.

Ted resides in Canton, Ohio with his wife Patricia, a high school Spanish teacher. 

for more information, please visit: http://www.art-101-gallery.com/TedLawson.html PROJECT

WEEK !: PROJECT: Create water and texture rubbing rocks

PREPARATION: set up the room in stations Watercolor station, salt station and texture stations

Step1: Using a new piece of construction paper for each rock. Walk around each rubbing station, hold construction paper over texture mat and color with a grey, black or white crayon. Leave your rock at each station

Step2: at water color station, spray watercolor paper with water, use large brush to add in blue water

Step3: take watercolor paper to salt station and add salt on top of your water

MATERIALS: 

Liquid watercolors

Salt

Texture rubbings of all sorts (Sand Paper, etc.)

Construction paper

WEEK 2: Texture creatures

Step1: Glue Texture rocks around your tide pools

Step2: Cut rubber bands and glue (elmers)  them to the paper around the shape of a sea urchin

Step3: Cut a oval out of laminate or smooth plastic (Plastic plate in white) and draw lines around him like a muscle

Step4: cut and color with oil pastels a bright star fish out of sand paper

MATERIALS: 

Sand Paper cut into star shape

Rocks from week 1

pastic in clear or white

black sharpies

Oil pastels

Glue sticks

Elmers glue

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