Organic Shape Drawing with Scissors and Matisse

Discussion

Organic Shape? What is organic shape? 

Where do you hear the word organic? 

Where do you find organic shapes? 

Matisse
 Drawing with scissors

He worked very large, we will work smaller

Show his work

What do you think of this piece? Color? Shapes? 

What would you do first if you were inside the artwork? 

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

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

He returned to work, and every morning before work, he attended drawing classes; at lunch time he would paint for an hour or so, and then return to work. After work he would paint till night fell. It was his life. 

In 1891 set off for Paris. 

Matisse began his journey of studies which ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. 

Matisse felt that his 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. 

In his last years, as he aged and fell ill, Matisse continued to paint, 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. 

PROJECT: Create a matisse style organic shape composition

Step1: glue one large block of color to your white sheet

Step2: glue a second block of color to your white sheet

Step3: begin to cut organic shapes in all colors and glue them to your paper

Step4: create a composition from your random shapes

Step5: pull the piece together by adding smaller pieces in a pattern

Materials: 

Glue stick

Construction paper

Scissors

Shape with Rothko

Discussion: shape

What is a shape

How are they made? 

What are they used for? 

Did they help you get to school today? 

Let’s name some shapes

Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970)

He was a Russian-American painter.

Rothko believed that his art could free the unconscious energies previously liberated by mythological images, symbols, and rituals. 

He considered himself a "mythmaker," and proclaimed "the exhilarated tragic experience, is for me the only source of art."

In 1949, Rothko became fascinated by Matisse’s Red Studio, acquired by the Museum of Modern Art that year. He later credited it as a key source of inspiration for his later abstract paintings.

The year 1946 saw the creation of Rothko’s transitional "multiform" paintings. 

The term "multiform" has been applied by art critics; this word was never used by Rothko himself, yet it is an accurate description of these paintings. 

He employed natural substances such as egg and glue, as well as artificial materials including acrylic resins, phenol formaldehyde, modified alkyd, and others.[9] 

One of his objectives was to make the various layers of the painting dry quickly, without mixing of colors, such that he could soon create new layers on top of the earlier ones.

He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".

Project: 

Step 1: One tag board, draw a red square with oil pastels

Step 2: Above the square draw a blue rectangle

Step3: paint the rest yellow

MATERIALS: 

Liquid watercolor, yellow

Red and blue oil pastel

White tag board. 

Value Hearts with Claes Oldenburg

Two day Project

Discussion Day 1

Form

What is sculpture?

Where do you find sculpture? 

How is sculpture different from a painting?

Look At Claes Oldenburg’s work

What do you think of this artwork?

What kind of art is it? 

Why is it so interesting

What would you do if you saw it in real life? 

Where is the closest work of his, SF

Discussion Day 2

Value: 

How do we make colors lighter?

How do we make colors darker?

What is value?

What is shade? 

What is tint? 

Draw a value scale

Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) 

Swedish sculptor, 

He is best known best known for his public art installations 

Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art.

In the 1960s he became associated with the Pop Art movement and created many so-called happenings, which were performance art related productions of that time.

His work typically features very large replicas of everyday objects. 

Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects.

Project: 

Step1: give students ingredients below in a paper bowl

Step2: students  mix the salt dough

Step3: on a paper plate students  create a salt dough heart

Step 4: it drys overnight

PROJECT Day 2

Students  paint their hearts in value

Step1: choose one color of acrylic paint

Step2: add the color to the heart

Step3: add white to the heart and mix in one spot

Step4: add Black to the heart and mix in one spot

When Dry place heart on wooden block stand with nail in the center. Use silicone glue to permanently adhere heart to nail. Found it was easier to paint front and back of heart while on nail block. Do not glue until heart is complete. 

Materials

Wood Block

Large nail

Sail dough recipe ingredients

Paper bowl

Paper plate

Silicone glue

Acrylic paint

Basic Salt Dough Recipe Ingredients:

1/2 cup of fine salt

1/2 cup of flour

1/4 cup of water (may add more)

Instructions:

In a large bowl, combine the salt and the flour

Make a well in the salt/flour mixture and add the water

Knead until smooth and shape into a ball

When not in use, wrap in plastic or store in an airtight container

Geometric Tissue Cityscapes with Paul Klee

DISCUSSION: Geometric shape 

 what are geometric shapes?

  where do we find them?

    in math class?

   Let’s name some and draw them...

Where do you hear that word geometric?

  Math class

  Geometry

City Scape: What is it? 

Look at Paul Klee’s Castle and the Sun

  What are his Buildings made up of?

  What Colors do you see?

  Are there any Organic shapes?

 Foreground: Front of the picture; bottom of your paper

 Middle ground: middle of your picture; horizon line in a Landscape; middle of your paper

 Background: The back of your picture; above the horizon line; the TOP of your paper

  

Overlapping: one object being on top of another

   The Buildings in the foreground will have no overlapping

   The buildings in the middle ground will be hidden slightly behind

    the foreground buildings

   The buildings in the background will be hidden behind the foreground and 

    middle ground buildings

ARTIST: Paul Klee

(1879 – 1940) 

Swiss painter of German nationality.

His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. 

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it. 

His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes child-like perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality. 

He and his friend, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art and architecture.

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

Project: 

Create Paul Klee’s city scape using Tissue paper and geometric shapes

Step1: glue on square and rectangles to form a city scape in color

Step2: build up one of the side like Klee

Step3: add black lines in sharpie add squares and rectangles and triangles for roofs

Step4: continue adding in in black lines until the space is full

Step5: Add in one circle with tissue paper

Step6: add black line for a circle on the sun

MATERIALS: 

Tissue paper in all colors cut to squares

Glue sticks

Black Sharpie

Scissors

Zig Zag Hearts with Bridget Riley

Discussion: Line
What is a line?
 how important do you think it is for art?
 let’s name a few lines: Diagonal, Curved, spiral, think, thick, wavy,etc...

want to see drawn lines on paper begin to move?
 show Bridget Riley’s work, then begin to rotate it. 

Op Art: Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.
Op is short for optical illusion. Thinking we see something that we don’t. 

Artist: Bridget Riley (1931-       ) 
Famous as an early proponent of Op Art, Bridget Riley was born in South London. 
Riley’s artistic education: Goldsmiths college of art from 1949, then at the Royal College from 1952-5. 
Riley exhibited her artwork in a number of group shows at this early stage 1958.
A mental breakdown led Riley away from her studio in the late 1950s. 
Upon her recovery she took up a string of teaching posts. 
It was during this period that Riley honed her personal artistic style.
Played with pointillism
Riley discovered her own method of treating optics in paint.
The first painting rendered in this ground-breaking mode was ‘Kiss’ of 1961. The canvas is a sea of black, divided by an emerging white band which marks the space between two approaching bodies. 
The painting was immediately followed by Riley’s first solo show the following year, which took place at Gallery One in London, which showed her early monochromatic paintings.
Riley also exhibited in the 1965 New York show which first propelled the concept of ‘Op’ art into the media spotlight.
It was not until 1967 that she splashed into color and the optical possibilities
The following year, 1968, saw Riley being awarded the International Prize for Painting. 
She was the first British contemporary painter, and first woman, to receive the prestigious prize.
Commercial demand for Bridget Riley’s artwork peaked in the 1970s, but crumbled the following decade. The 1980s was a rather dark time for the artist as suddenly-and unexpectedly-her work fell out of fashion. 
But she never stopped working and recent years have witnessed a revival in her popularity,Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, hosted their own Riley retrospective in 2008.
A freshly-discovered interest in Riley’s artwork has also been echoed in art market sales. 
In 2008 Sotherby’s London sold Riley’s ‘Chant 2’ of 1967 for over £2.5m.

PROJECT: 
Create an Op Art Piece using Black lines
Step1: using a pencil lightly draw a heart in the center of your paper
Step2: using black sharpie, draw horizontal straight lines to the heart
Step3: When you get to the heart zig zag your lines
Step4: On the other side of your heart go back to straight lines. 
Step5: Continue with the steps until it is complete. 

MATERIALS: 
White paper
Black Pens or sharpies

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.