Texture and Patten POPsicles with Andy Warhol

Discussion: 

Pattern

What is it? abababababab

Where do you see it? Clothing, wallpaper, etc.

What do you have to have to make one? Repetition

What is texture? 

How does your hair feel?

How does the bottom of your show feel?

Do they feel the same?

What about tree bark vs. A puppy? 

Art and texture: 

The job of an artist is to create visual texture

A dog might look fluffy and a marble would be shiny and smooth

Discuss Andy Warhol and his use of repetition in his four part celebrity POP art portraits

ARTIST: 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: Create POPsicle Pop Artwork using texture and pattern

Step1: on 12x18 piece of Tag Board or card stock: Draw one line across horizontal center

Draw one line down Vertical center

Step2: (multitude of ways to add color here, we had just studied the color wheel and value)

Paint one primary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries

Paint one secondary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries

Paint one rectangle with any color and white: add texture with POPsicle stick

Paint one rectangle with any color and black: add texture with POPsicle stick

Step3: while that dries: Give students Tag board or card stock cut down to 4x6 pieces

Step4: ask students to create a different pattern on each

Students with use oils pastels for dots or stripes and finish back ground in watercolor

Step5: Cut these small pattern papers into rounded POPsicle shapes

Step6: Glue POPsicle stick to the back of each

Step7: Glue four new POPsicles into each of the large painted rectangles

Materials:

Oil pastels

Tempura paint

Watercolor

Tag board 12x18

Tag board 8x12

Popsicle sticks

Texture Printmaking with Wayne Thiebaud

Discussion: 

What is texture? 

How does your hair feel?

How does the bottom of your show feel?

Do they feel the same?

What about tree bark vs. A puppy? 

Art and texture: 

The job of an artist is to create visual texture

A dog might look fluffy and a marble would be shiny and smooth

Printmaking: do you print things at home? 

How do you print them?

How do we print in art: smash pictures or folding pictures in half

There are many techniques in art for printmaking

Mono-print: creating one print from an original piece of art

Look at Wayne Thiebaud’s Gum ball machine painting and discuss how he might have drawn it. 

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 mono-print gum ball machine from sand paper

Step1: on your 4x6 piece of sand paper: with a black oil pastel, draw a large circle on the top half

Step2: Draw a square underneath your circle

Step3: add a half circle on top of your first circle

Step4: add a small circle inside your square

Step5: color in your square and small half circle with the same color

Step6: color in your small circle black to show where the gum balls come out

Step7: fill your machine with different colored gum balls

Step8: once complete, adult uses an iron to melt picture onto your tag board paper

Note: These come out like a print, they might not be exact. 

MATERIALS: 

Oil pastels

Sand paper (light)

Iron

Heavy card stock or tag board paper

I loved the addition of the 25 cents but you might warn young students that it will print backwards. 

School picture portraits with Picasso

Discussion: what is a portrait? 

What do you find in a portrait? 

Nose? Mouth? Shoulders? Ears? 

How do you draw a portrait? 

Now look at this portrait? What?????

What is up with her eyes? 

Why is her nose like that?

What about the background?

ARTIST: Pablo Picasso  (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter and sculptor. 

He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. 

He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 

He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 

During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 

Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

Project: create a picasso portrait using your school picture

Step1: draw a circle for a head on your small paper

Step2: add a neck and shoulders

Step3: cut out one eye and glue it to the small paper

Step4: cut out one ear and glue it somewhere on your face

Step5: cut out your mouth and glue it on your face

Step6: cut out your hair and glue it on your portrait

Step7: finih your portrait in oil pastel

Step8; Draw a pattern in the background

MATERIALS: 

2”x3” paper, tagboard

School pictures

Oil pastels

Pattern Britto All Student Art Project

Discussion,

Pattern

Artist Britto

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 Mini Britto for all students art project

Step1: using a pencil, draw in a rectangle

Step2: draw in a second rectangle

Step3: draw in a pattern in the largest ring

Step4: draw in a pattern in the middle ring

Step5: Draw in a heart in the middle

Step6: fill in each pattern in only two colors. 

Materials:

Primary and secondary paint

Pencils

Sharpies

Card stock rectangles

Watercolor

Oil pastels

Portfolio

Spray Paint and dotted landscapes with Seurat

Prep: cut or rip watercolor paper and construction paper into 3x8.5 strips

Cut out or hole punch 2" circles these could be yellow or printed yellow

Discussion: Pointillism: small dots next to each other when looked at from far away become a picture. 

Primary dots next to each other mix with the viewers eye. 

Look at the work Sunday afternoon at the Park by the artist Seurat

What do you see? 

What color did he use most?

Do you see a monkey?

What would you do if you were there? 

ARTIST: Georges Seurat 

(1859-1891)

French Painter

Invented pointillism

Took informal art lessons as a teen

Attended art school in Paris

He studied the relationship between lines and images and the effect light had on color

He wanted to know more about the emotional effect of color

He influenced science with his studies of colors

Project: 

Step 1: paint watercolor paper with blue liquid water color paint

Step 2: on square card stock paper 8.5 x8.5, glue on blue watercolor at the top

Step3: glue on orange construction paper in the middle

Step 4 glue on pink construction paper on the bottom

Step5: spray pink and orange with two to three squirts of lime liquid watercolor in a spritz bottle

Step6: glue on your round pre cut sun shine on the top in the blue 

Step 7: with q-tips add in round flowers in all colors on the pink and orange paper

Step8: with tooth picks add in dark green centers in each flower to finish

Materials:

Pink and orange construction paper 3" x 8.5"

Water color paper 3"x 8.5"

Tooth picks

Q-tips

tempura paint

Blue liquid watercolor

Card stock cut to 8.5"x8.5"

This project was adapted from this website: http://angelaandersonart.blogspot.com/2011/11/fun-splatter-floral-paintings-kids-art.html  Please visit for additional information

Recycled Robots with Clayton Bailey

Two Day Project

Discussion: Form 

Sculpture

Robots

Artist: Clayton Bailey (1939-       )

Born 1939- Clayton G. Bailey is born in Antigo, Wisconsin .

1960- Inspired by the abstract expressionist work of Peter Voulkos, he begins to make ripped and torn ceramic forms, and begins a series of unique "pinch pots". 

Bailey receives a B.S. Degree in Art Education in January 1961, and continues in the Graduate Program. Littleton hires him as studio technician, and instructor of a beginning pottery class.

1962- Bailey receives an M.S. Degree in Art and Art Education. 

His students in ceramics are children aged 4 to 18 years old, and adults of all ages; and his classes meet six days of the week. 

The slogan, "Think Ugly" is painted on the wall of the ceramic shop by one of Bailey's students as a rationalization for the ugly sculptures they are making.

Bailey notes that "beauty" is an attribute of the familiar and the comfortable. The artist, he claims, should seek to discover the new and unusual, and should not strive for beauty.

He moves to Northern California in 1968.

1968-The Funk Art Festival is organized by Bailey and Coelho at U.S.D., Vermillion. California artists Roy DeForest, David Gilhooly, David and Maija Zack are the invited guests.

During the next decades, this toy collection will grow to many hundreds of battery operated space and robot toys.

He is a featured ceramic artist, along with Peter Voulkos, Toshiko Takaezu, and Paul Soldner, in the ABC-TV prime time special; "With These Hands; The American Craftsman", sponsored by the S.C. Johnson Co.

Roy DeForest coins the term "Nut Art", saying that "it has to do with phantasmagoric ideas and fantasies. 

Bailey and friends often meet at the Dairyville Cafe or at the Rainbow House in San Francisco 

He is a panelist for the California Arts Commission Fellowship Program.

For additional information: http://www.claytonbailey.com/

Project: using collected cans create a robot sculpture

Step1: find two matching can legs

Step2: find a body

Step3: Find a head

Step4: help students glue them together

AFTER ALLOWING BODY TO DRY OVERNIGHT: 

Step5: add fun hardware for eyes, hair, body parts (switches) shoes etc...

Materials: 

Recycled cans of all sizes

Clear Silicone glue (Home Depot)

Hardware from around the house

This project was inspired by Jane Hastings Robot artwork for more info on Jane visit her on pinterest: http://pinterest.com/jane_hastings/?d

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