Watercolor bowls with Chihuly

Discussion: Form 

Pattern

Glass sculpture

Chiluly’s artwork

Artist: Chihuly (1941-       )

Born in Tacoma, Washington,
Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. 

After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. 

He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade.

His work is included in more than 200 hundred museum collections worldwide. 

He has been the recipient of many awards, including eleven honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

team approach to blowing glass

major exhibition venues include the de Young Museum in San Francisco, in 2008,

Project: 

Step 1: using washable markers, create a pattern on a coffee filter

Step2: spray it with liquid starch and set it over a bottle to dry

Step3: hot glue the form to a piece of black construction paper for final display. 

Materials:

Washable markers

Coffee filters

Hot glue

Liquid starch (dollar Store)

For additional information on this project, check out this great blog: http://www.thecrayonlab.com/search/label/sculpture

Pattern Words with Romero Britto

Discussion: Pattern

Where do we find pattern?

Have we seen any pattern in our art work we have discussed already?

Do you have on pattern today?

When you discuss pattern what subject are you on? 

Why is pattern importnat to art?

Overlap

Placing things on to and behind one another

ARTIST: Romero Britto (1963-      )

was born in Recife, Brazil 

Self-taught at an early age, he painted on surfaces such as newspapers. 

In 1983, he traveled to Paris where he was introduced to the work of Matisse and Picasso. 

He combined influences from cubism with pop, to create a vibrant, iconic style that The New York Times describes, "exudes warmth, optimism and love."

In 1988, Britto moved to Miami and emerged as an international artist.  

He has also illustrated several books published by Simon & Schuster and Rizzoli. 

Britto's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in over 100 countries 

Britto considers the role of an artist to be an agent of positive change. 

He serves as a benefactor, donating time, art and resources to over 250 charitable organizations and several boards such as Best Buddies International, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. 

Project: create the word love from Britto pattern 

Step1: Draw a straight line down on the left hand side 

Step2: draw a line across the bottom

Step3: draw a line up

Step4: draw a line back to the left

Step5: draw a line up to the top

Step6: draw a line over to the top of the first line: L

Step7: on the bottom of the L draw a large circle

Step8: Draw a small circle inside the large circle: O

Step9: Draw a diagonal line behind the letter o

Step10: Draw a line across the bottom

Step11: Draw a diagonal line back up

Step12: draw a line across the top

Step13: Draw a diagonal line down to the center

Step14: a line across the bottom

Step15: A line back up to the top

Step16: A line across the top to meet the first: V

Step17: From behind the V draw a line down

Step18: a long line across the bottom

Step 19: Continue with up, down and across lines helping students to construct an upper case E

Step20: draw a squiggly line across all the letters

Step21: fill in the top part of each letter with a pattern

Step22: fill in the bottom portion of each letter with a pattern

Step23: one pattern should be One heart to honor Britto

Step24: fill in the pattern using only one colors in each pattern in oil pastels

Step25: fill in the remaining portion of each pattern in watercolor

Materials: 

Pencils, Sharpies, Oil pastels, Watercolors. Spray bottles

Tooling Foil Masks with Folk Artists

Discussion: Mayan Masks

Pattern

Tin Art

Folk Artists

Folk Art Tin work, known in Mexico as hojalata, goes back to the 16th Century. Artists use natural, oxidized and brightly lacquered paints to create ornaments, nichos, mirrors, lanterns and other decorative pieces. Our interesting variety of tin work comes from Oaxaca where the artists use more natural and lacquered tin, and from San Miguel de Allende where oxidized tin is more popular.

The Maya occupied a vast area covering southeast Mexico and the Central American countries of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. Mayan culture began to develop in the Pre-Classic period, around 1000 B.C. and was at its heyday between 300 and 900 A.D. The Maya are well known for their writing, of which a great part can now be read, as well as for their advanced mathematics, astronomy and calendrical calculations.

Mayan masks had a wide variety of uses: 

Some of the most complex masks were created to adorn the faces of the dead.

The Mayan's wore masks during important events, including during battle.

Whatever the use of masks in battle was, today’s scholars are able to learn a lot about the Mayan civilization from surviving masks made by the Mayan people.

There were also masks that showed the faces of people. We know that some masks were used in wedding ceremonies, 

There were masks made to commemorate many births and deaths.

The Mayan's also used masks for entertainment.

The uses of masks by the Mayan people were as varied as the style of the masks themselves.

Tips for tooling Foil: 

Use dull pencils (we used colored pencils

Work on a pad of folded newspaper

Project create a two tear tooling foil sun mask 

Step1: On the first square, draw a new pattern on each of the four sides

Step2: cut the corners off the second square turning it into a circle

Step3: Think about what type of mask you are making, add eyes, nose, mouth, ears hair, etc. 

Step4: using sharpies color both of the tooling foil pieces

Step5: using a large bead hot glue the square pattern foil underneath the round, mask foil 

MATERIALS: 

2 sheets of 5”x 5” tooling foil

Dull pencils

Newspaper

Sharpie markers. 

Hot glue gun

Beads

Pattern Landscapes with Wayne Thiebaud

DISCUSSION: Pattern

What is pattern? 

Where do you find it?

Have we seen pattern in any artwork we have studied?

Discuss landscapes

Horizon line, foreground, background

Wayne Thiebaud and this landscape:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/03/arts/design/03wayne-grfk.html

Do you see pattern?

How many different patterns

ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud 

(born November 15, 1920) 

He is an American painter 

His most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, 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.

PROJECT: create a farm landscape with pattern

Step1: with black marker, draw an upside down letter v in the top middle of the paper

Step2: draw two straight lines coming off your V

Step3: draw a line across and then make it into a square down

Step4: add another square in the top and add the letter x

Step5: Add a square inside your square and add two XX’s

Step6: add two window to finish your barn

Step7: draw two lines to either side creating a horizon line

Step8: draw one line down from the barn through the foreground

Step9: draw two diagonal lines from either corner of the barn

Step10: Fill the first open space with clouds (make a pattern, not one cloud, 3 clouds)

Step11: fill the opposite side with trees (Pattern, 3 trees)

Step12: fill the other four open spaces with stripes, polka dots, diagonal lines, squiggly lines, etc...

Step 11: Color in all your pattern with color, remember we want a pattern so stick to two or three colors for each pattern

MATERIALS:

black sharpie markers

all colors of markers

Once these were in my computer, I realized they are a great project to discuss perspective. Many of the children were able to achieve perspective in these drawings without even trying. This is another great discussion point for this project. 

Warm and Cool color collages with Hundertwasser

Two week project, students create collage paper the first week. 

Discussion: Warm colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they warm?

Where do we see them everyday?

Cool colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they cool?

Where do we see them everyday?

ARTIST: Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1978-2000)

GERMAN

The eccentric and playfully self-advertising Viennese artist 

Early school reports attested to his "exceptional feeling for colour and form". 

Hundertwasser spent three months at the Viennese Art Academy
He found the numerous and adventurous trips he took to Morocco, Tunisia, Nepal, Tokyo and Siberia inspirational for the path he intended to follow. 

Hundertwasser developed an abstract, decorative, two-dimensional and vibrantly colourful, utterly distinctive style distinguished by ornamental spiral and labyrinth forms, circles, meanders and biomorphic shapes.
During the 1960s Friedensreich Hundertwasser was extremely successful

Active in the ecological movement, Hundertwasser was committed to making life livable in a humane environment that was close to nature. 

So versatile and prolific was Hundertwasser that he also designed coins and stamps for Austria, Senegal and the UN from the 1970s. 

In 1981 Hundertwasser was appointed head of the master for painting at the Viennese Art Academy. 

The famous Hundertwasser House in Vienna, begun in 1983, attests to Hunderwasser's skill as an architect.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser died on a cruise ship off New Zealand in 2000.

PROJECT: WEEK 1: Create both a warm and a cool striped paintings 

Step1: on white paper paint a red stripe

Step2: using a craft stick and fork make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step3: make an orange stripe next to your red stripe

Step4: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your orange paint

Step5: repeat steps with yellow and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step6: on white paper paint a blue stripe

using a craft stick and/or fork make stripes or marks in your blue paint

Step7: make an green stripe next to your blue stripe

Step8: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your green paint

Step9: repeat steps with violet and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

Project: WEEK TWO

Step1: cut strips from your cool or warm colors (ARTIST DECISION) and glue them on the card stock

Step2: from the opposite color pages cut circles in three sizes and glue them on top of your stripes 

Step3: repeat until you have three flowers

Step4: add stems

MATERIALS AND TOOLS: 

White construction paper

Warm and cool colored paint

Pop cycle sticks

Forks

Adapted from:http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/10/hundertwasser-art-lesson-for-kids/

Value and Pattern Fish with Britto

Two week Project

WEEK 1

PREPARE black paint by adding one to one and 1/2 of tablespoons of dish soap into a pint of tempura black paint

DISCUSSION: Value

 What does value mean?

 What happens when you add white to a color? TINT

 What happens when you add black to a color? SHADE

 Pure color is in the middle

                what is pure color? Color in it's truest form right from the bottle

 Tint is between white and pure it is a little of both mixed together

 Shade is between pure and black and it is a little of both mixed together.

 Look at Jim Dine's Green hearts done in the 80’s

 how did he make his hearts lighter?

 What other colors are prominent?

       How many values of red do you see?

 How do you think he created this piece?

        can you see the brush strokes?

        if the artwork were only one shade of red, would it be a interesting?

PROJECT: create pop art Britto inspired fish

Step1: in pencil draw a grid on your 12x12 card stock: two vertical lines, two horizontal lines.

Step2: in the top middle square add white

Step3: in the bottom middle square add light black

Step4: in the middle square add pure color

Step5: add the same pure color into the white square to tint the pure

Step6: add the same pure color into the black square to shade the pure

Step7: on one side add three warm colors

Step8: on the opposite side add three cool colors

Step9: paint prepared black paint over the entire square

MATERIALS:

Tag Board

Oil pastels

Black paint mixed with dish soap.

WEEK 2

Disscussion: Pattern

Where do we find pattern?

Have we seen any pattern in our art work we have discussed already?

Do you have on pattern today?

When you discuss pattern what subject are you on? 

Why is pattern important to art?

ARTIST: Romero Britto (1963-      )

He was born in Recife, Brazil 

Self-taught at an early age, he painted on surfaces such as newspapers. 

In 1983, he traveled to Paris where he was introduced to the work of Matisse and Picasso. 

He combined influences from cubism with pop, to create a vibrant, iconic style that The New York Times describes, "exudes warmth, optimism and love."

In 1988, Britto moved to Miami and emerged as an international artist. 

In the following year, he was selected alongside Andy Warhol and Keith Haring for Absolut Vodka's "Absolut Art" campaign. 

Britto's pop sensibility has since leant itself to many collaborations with such brands as Audi, Bentley, Disney, Technomarine, Evian and FIFA, for whom he created an official poster for the 2010 World Cup. 

He has also illustrated several books published by Simon & Schuster and Rizzoli. 

Britto's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in over 100 countries 

Britto considers the role of an artist to be an agent of positive change. 

He serves as a benefactor, donating time, art and resources to over 250 charitable organizations and several boards such as Best Buddies International, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. 

Project: Scratch Britto Fish into your painted papers

Step1: use a toothpick, top right corner draw a circle

Step2: On the side of your circle draw a triangle

Step3: repeat steps 1 and 2 eight more times until you have nine fish

Step4: add any line fins

Step5: fill each fish with a least two patterns, dots, stripes, squiggles, triangles, lines, hearts, daisys

Materials

Prepared paper

Toothpicks