Fish printmaking with J. Vincent Scarpace 3-5 grades

The yellow pieces in the above photos are the finished work. The art above is the cardboard with the flexi-cut pieces on top that the students created to print.

DISCUSSION: printmaking: what is it? Why is it so important in art?
Complimentary colors and value are very important in today’s artwork

Look at the artwork of Vincent Scarpace:
What do you think
What is he inspired by?
What do you see first in the work?
What about the colors he used?

J. Vincent Scarpace
1971-
American Artist
Born: Buffalo, New York

His original works are “a personal journey through the use of basic of art elements: line, shape, and color - resulting in an arrival, just past experimentation, at unique works of art which purposely resemble fish.”
He’s followed his passion for the creative process, the pursuit of one’s own creative potential.
J. Vincent knew from an early age exactly what he wanted to do with his life.
encouraged from about age 2 to pursue line, shape, and color, and the creation of art.
J’s mother, an artist in her own right, taught young J. Vincent how to enjoy drawing, painting, and sculpture very early on.
Having worked as an apprentice, production artist, and studio artist .
J. Vincent holds a BS in Education (Art and Education),
after several years of teaching in both private and public schools, he’s now a former teacher, "retired" very early, to his studio to continue his creative journey and drive toward the creation of unique works of abstract fish art. Today, J. Vincent Scarpace’s original works can be found in private and public collections in over 40 countries and in all 50 U.S. States.
He is currently in art galleries, in numerous restaurants, and in many corporate and professional collections. J. resides in College Station, TX

For additional artist information, please visit: http://www.ipaintfish.com/

PROJECT: Create a fish like our artist that we can print
Step1: paint a background for your fish with a brayer using one BRIGHT color Yellow is perfect
Step 2: begin to cut out pieces of your sticky foam and form it out your card board to create a fish. REMEMBER: place next to each other, NOT OVERLAPPING, like a mosaic
Step3: Start with the eye. a large circle or swirl
Step4: create a body frame by cutting out a smile and a frown. place them on top of each other creating an oval shape

Step 5: fill the inside of the fish with shapes
Step6: create gills and fins
Step7: create a mouth
Step8: paint your fish with all different colors REMEMBER to use colors OPPOSITE on color wheel from your background
Step9: print your fish onto your background
Step10: add dots, swirly fins, lines, and other details with a q-tip

MATERIALS:
Flexi cut by the yard available at dick Blick: http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-flexi-cut-printing-plates/

paint brushes Large and small
Cardboard

water
White tag board
Tempura paint

Q-tips

Printmaking fish with J. Vincent Scarpace for K-2

Discussion: printmaking: what is that?
Do you ever print anything on the computer?
How many copies can you make?
can you make a copy of your artwork like a printer? How?
Can we copy our artwork here in class?

J. Vincent Scarpace, Artist.1971-
Born: Buffalo, New York

His original works are “a personal journey through the use of basic of art elements: line, shape, and color - resulting in an arrival, just past experimentation, at unique works of art which purposely resemble fish.”
He’s followed his passion for the creative process, the pursuit of one’s own creative potential.
J. Vincent knew from an early age exactly what he wanted to do with his life.
encouraged from about age 2 to pursue line, shape, and color, and the creation of art.
J’s mother, an artist in her own right, taught young J. Vincent how to enjoy drawing, painting, and sculpture very early on.
Having worked as an apprentice, production artist, and studio artist .
J. Vincent holds a BS in Education (Art and Education),
after several years of teaching in both private and public schools, he’s now a former teacher, "retired" very early, to his studio to continue his creative journey and drive toward the creation of unique works of abstract fish art. Today, J. Vincent Scarpace’s original works can be found in private and public collections in over 40 countries and in all 50 U.S. States.
He is currently in art galleries, in numerous restaurants, and in many corporate and professional collections. J. resides in College Station, TX

for more information, visit his website: http://www.ipaintfish.com/

PROJECT: create a fish print to place on sea background

Step1: using the brayers paint on a background in yellow, set it aside to dry
Step2: on your flat Styrofoam draw a fish.
Start with the oval body and face
Add a tail in the shape of a triangle
Add fins on the top and bottom in the shape of Long triangles
Step3: in an red or blue paint your fish with the brayer
Step4: print your fish onto the background
Step5: add details plants, fins, swirls and dots using a qtip

MATERIALS:
Q tips

larger paper

Styrofoam to go trays, cut out the bottom and the top to have a 5x5" flat piece
Brayer

bright colored paint (neon)

Overlapping, Symbols, Color and Balance with Ryan McGinness

I showed the students the following video on your laptop/iphone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgJA5iSx6g&feature=player_embedded#

If this is not a possibility just print a couple of his pieces of art and watch the video to explain his work.

Discuss his artwork
his theory about mistakes
his messages in his artwork
His method of applying paint

ARTIST: RYAN MCGINNESS: 1971-
American artist,
living and working in New York City.
He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia
studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar.
During college, he worked at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant.
Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography,
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments.

PROJECT:
Use stencils to overlap and make a statement about your art
I found stencils at the doaller store and they worked great.

Step1: Large white paper
Step2: Think out your ideas in a sketch
Step3: Use oil pastels to get a hang of how they work
Step4: Begin to overlap your ideas
Step5: think about Color, balance and the visual statement you are creating

MATERIALS:
Oil pastels
Chalk Pastels
Paint
Stencils
Letter stencils
White paper

ADAPTATIONS: grades k-3
have students cut symbols out of card stock to create symbol stencils
each student could cut three and all the stencils could be shared

Sonia Delaunay Shape and Line Drawings

Discussion: line/shape/color/warm and cool colors
Can we have art without line?
What do lines create when they intersect?
What is the difference between organic shape and geometric shapa
Warm colors/Cool Colors
Color wheel: Primary? Secondary? Complementary?
Monochromatic?
Nuetral? How do we make brown?
Value? What do we need to create?

Artist: Sonia Delaunay
(November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a
Jewish-French artist
Married to Robert Delaunay
Cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design.
She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.
Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing.

for additional information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Delaunay

PROJECT:
Step1: fill your paper with circles. Overlap them and layer them
Step2: draw a line through the center of your page. It can be straight, vertical, horizontal or diagonal
Step3: Draw open lines connecting your circles around the outside
Step4: begin to think about how you might fill them in
Step5: you may leave white paper ONLY as color to fill the shape of that space. ALL of your page MUST be filled in
Step6: think about warm colors, cool colors, complementary colors, value
Step7 COLOR NEATLY!!!!!!! Do not go outside the lines. The objective is to create a graphic look on paper.
Step 8: do not forget Neutral colors: BROWN, GREY, WHITE, BLACK.
You have two weeks ti finish this project.

Materials:
Markers

construction paper in white 12x18
Pencils
Oil pastels
Sharpies
Colored pencils

Playing Card Portraits with Rouault

DISCUSSION:
Drawing facial proportions
Go over the face and details of drawing features
(for porportion details reference visit marbled portraits with Paul Klee)
Double loading the brush
Putting two colors on the brush at once and letting them mix on the page

ARTIST:
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
French painter
His apprenticeship in a glazier's shop restoring medieval stained glass (1885 – 90) influenced his mature style as a painter.
After an early academic period, his style evolved toward Fauvism before he established a highly personal form of Expressionism.
An ardent Roman Catholic, he painted subjects apparently fallen from grace tragic clowns, and pitiless judges.
After 1914 his subject matter became more specifically religious, with greater emphasis on redemption,
He shifted from watercolor to oil.
His layers of paint became thick and rich, his forms simplified, and his colors and black lines reminiscent of stained glass.
In the 1930s he produced a splendid series on Christ's Passion, while reworking many earlier paintings.
His series of clowns in the 1940s are virtual self-portraits.
He also produced many engravings as well as ceramics, tapestry designs, and stained glass.
for additional information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Rouault

PROJECT:
Step1: using black paint begin painting your card Fill the space
DO NOT USE PENCIL, MISTAKES ARE WELCOME.
Step2: paint hair, paint the face, paint all the details on the clothing
Step3: using the six colors provided DOUBLE DIP your brush each time and let the paint mix on the page
Step4: fill in the card image including the background
Step5: last: go over each line again with the black paint

MATERIALS:
Thick large paper
Paint
Brushes
Water
2 decks of cards
Paint templates

I found this wonderful project on www.deepspacesparkle.blogspot.com. This lesson plan works perfectly. For additional information please visit the site: http://deepspacesparkle.blogspot.com/search/label/Royalty

COLOR WHEEL WITH Marc Chagall

Discussion:
Color wheel
What is color?
Where do we get color
Where do we see color in nature? All togther?
Primary colors: what are they?
What does primary mean?
Secondary colors
What are they
How do we get them?

ARTIST: Marc Chagall
1887-1985
Russian Born. French painter
Known for his use of colors
Known for his dreamlike images
He used clear colors and geometric forms
Mastered stain glass in his sixties

Project: Create a Chagall inspired color wheel
Step1: use a white oil pastel to draw all over your paper
You could draw scenes from a dream or lines and shapes
Step2: draw an x on your paper using a pencil
Step3: draw a horizontal line across your paper creating 6 openings
AS YOU PAINT YOU WILL REVEAL YOUR DREAM DRAWING
Step4: paint in red in one triangle
Step 5: skip the next triangle
Step6: paint in blue in this triangle
Step7 Skip the next triangle
Step 8 paint in yellow in this triangle
Step 8 mix red and yellow…paint orange in this triangle
Step 9 mix red and blue…paint purple in this triangle
Step10: mix blue and yellow…paint green in this triangle

MATERIALS:
watercolor paper
Watercolors
White oil pastels
Pencils

Warm and Cool Colors with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: Warm and Cool Colors

Choose a piece of art that has more warm colors and ask students questions about it, like:

what colors do you see?

Does it change how you are feeling?

What is happening?

How might it smell?

Choose a piece of art that has more cool colors and ask students questions about it, like:

what colors do you see?

What is happening in the piece?

How do you feel when you look at it?

How might it smell?

Landscapes:

Horizon line first

Foreground

Middle ground

Background

Pick a landsacpe by Van Gogh and discuss it with the students

ARTIST:

VAN GOGH1853-1890

Dutch Painter

Known for the way he applied paint to the canvas

In 1888 he moved to paris to paint

Sold only one piece of art while he was alive

Loved vivid colors landscapes, movementPainted with Gauguin

PROJECT: Create a landscape in the style of van Gogh

WORK TOGETHER AS A GROUP!!!

Step1: with Black Oil pastel: draw rolling hills in the foreground (front)

Step2: Draw three large mountains behind in the middle ground

Step3: Draw the sun in the corner

Step4: Draw rings of the sun in the background

Step5: With Chalk pastels: fill in the foreground with Cool colors

Step6: fill in the background with warm colors

Materials:

Black oil pastels

Chalk pastels

White paper

Hairspray or fixative

I adapted this lesson from one I found on one of my favorite sites deepspacesparkle. Here is the link:http://deepspacesparkle.blogspot.com/2008/05/coolwarm-modern-landscapes.html

Marbled Portraits with Paul Klee

Day 1
One Hour Class

DISCUSSION:

MarblingSuminagashi" is a unique style of marbling which was developed in Japan."Suminagashi" first appeared (A.D. 794-1185), a period during which Japan was emerging from influence of ChinaThe name is derived from two Japanese words; "sumi" which means black ink, and "nagashi" which means floating.basic characteristics of the marbling: delicate sworls of black colour which appear to float on the surface of the paper. Many sources will cite "suminagashi" as the first known marbling technique in history.After a two hundred year hiatus, marbling techniques resurfaced in the Near East.Both paper and marbling techniques came from Turkistan along the silk caravan routes to Persia and Turkey.Several reasons may be given for the absence of early examples of marbled paper.Paper is fragile and ephemeral by nature, and the normal vicissitudes of time, vermin, dampPaper and paper products were very costly, and for this reason were considered luxury items to be enjoyed only by the aristocracy and the wealthy.This view is substantiated by the relatively small number of manuscripts, books and miniatures incorporating marbling which are included in large collections of Islamic art, such as that in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul.India, Persia and Turkey were very significant locations in the history of paper marbling after it was brought from Japan. These three stopping points that the trail of paper marbling followed across Asia and Europe represent the most important period of technological development the process of paper marbling would ever experience.

Project: Create paper marbling papers in all different colors

Step1: shaving cream on a tray

Step2: each student chooses colors to swirl on top of the shaving cream. use a stick to swirl

Step3: lay the paper on top, pull the paper off. Pull the shaving cream with a ruler

Step4: continue until all students have several pieces of marbles papers in different colors

MATERIALS:

Shaving cream

Liquid watercolors

Tag board

Day 2

One Hour Class

DISCUSSION:

Drawing Portraits

Go Over how to draw the face in proportion

Step: Draw a oval for a head

Step 2: very softly draw a line vertically down the center of the face

Step3: very softly draw a line horizontally across the center of the face

Step4: draw the eyes on the horizontal line

Step5: Very softly draw a line half way between the eye line and the bottom of the oval

Step6: Draw the nose, L shape or triangle shape, the bottom of the nose falls on the second line

Step7: very softly draw a line in the center between the nose line and the bottom of the oval

Step8: draw the mouth on the third line

ON SCRAP PAPER: Let the student practice drawing a correct facial proportion

Study Paul Klee’s face

ARTIST:

Paul Klee 18 (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.

ON SCRAP PAPER: Let the student practice drawing a face like paul klee’s

Give them space to try new things with the shapes and charcoal

PROJECT:Draw a paul klee face on the marbling paper they made from last week

MATERIALS:

Marbling paper

Charcoal

White paper to practice

Georgia O'Keeffe Symmetrical Flowers

DISCUSSION:

symmetrical? What does that mean? Big Word that just means the same on both sides

Your face is symmetrical

Can you tell me a great natural example of symmetry? Butterfly.

Show Georgia O'keeffe's: white flower on red earth

discuss with the students how it is the same on both side

show how it is different on both sides

ask them if they like the piece?

when would they see that flower, in spring or winter?

how would it smell?

ARTIST:

Georgia O'Keeffe

Known for painting LARGE flowers

Lived in Santa Fe New Mexico

Famous in her lifetime for her work

Also painted skulls

Married a famous photographer who changed the way she saw her artwork

PROJECT:

Step1: cut out a symmetrical vase for your flowers

Fold your paper in half

Cut fun shapes up the side WITHOUT the fold

Open your vase

Step2: glue your vase on your page, paper should be vertical

Step3: using sponges pick up paint and print flowers above your vase in all different colors

Step4: add stems using a brush

Step5: turn in your project and clean your space

MATERIALS:

Scrap paper for vases

Glue

Scissors

Sponges cut into petal shapes

Paint

Brushes

Water

ORGANIC/GEOMETRIC SHAPE cats with LAUREL BURCH

DISCUSSION:

Shape: name some?

What about this shape (draw a organic shape on the board)

What is this shape called?

Organic shapes: what other organic shapes can you think of?Trees, grass, you and me…

ARTIST:

Laurel Burch:1945-2007

American painter, designer

lived in San Francisco

Made jewelry to have some money

Known for her cats

PROJECT:Draw a cat face using geometric shape and organic shapes

Step1: draw a dot in the middle of your paper

Step2: draw two more dots beside that dot 3” over

Step3: draw a curved line on top to connect the two dots on either side

Step4: draw a curved line on bottom to connect the two dots (now you have 2 ovals)

Step 5: draw a straight vertical line about 2” long

Step 6: on the end of that line draw a triangle

Step 7: from the bottom of the triangle draw the letter U on either side

Step 8: draw an organic shape around your face to make the head,

Don’t forget your pointy ears

OUTLINE YOUR CAT WITH BLACK SHARPIE

Step 9: use oil pastels to fill in all your colors

Step10 Use Bold and Unusual colors to fill in the entire page

MATERIALS:

Oil pastels

White tag board

Pencils

sharpies

I found this fantastic project on artprojectsforkids.org it is a wonderful site full of great ideas. for more information on this project, please visit: http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/search/label/artist%20Laurel%20Burch