Color Wheel hand prints with Picasso

Discussion: 
Picasso's artwork, Hands with Flowers
What do you see in this drawing
What is the hand doing? 
What colors do you see? 
How many colors? 
How do we make color? 
What is primary color? 
Red Yellow Blue
Why are they special? What do they do? 

They make secondary colors: show a color wheel
Red and blue get too close they make: Purple
Yellow and blue get too close they make green 
Red and yellow get too close they make orange

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

He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, 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 printed flowers with hand print
Step1: using a circle stamp print a red center
Step2: using another circle stamp print a blue flower center
Step3: using a third print a yellow flower center
Step4: add orange petals with oil pastels
Step5: add green lines for stems with oil pastels 
Step6: paint and print your hand in purple paint

Materials: 
3 Foam circles and wine corks hot glued together for circle stamp
Red, blue, purple, and yellow tempura paint
orange and green oil pastels 


This lesson was adapted from a wonderful lesson found here: splishsplashsplatterart.blogspot.com.

Organic shape and geometric shape movement figures with Keith Haring

Discussion: 

Organic Shape VS Geometric shape

Geometric shapes: 

Name some....Square, circle, rectangle, 

Can they be solved with MATH: Yes!

Organic Shapes: 

Name Some....Bird, Tree, you and me!!!

Can they be solved with Math??? NO!

Movement: 

How does Haring show movement? 

What color does he use when the figures move

ARTIST: Keith Haring

Born 1958

Age 19 first show

1978 went to school in NY

Created subway drawings on blank ad space

Worked with children

Wanted everyone to be able to have his work

Worked with causes

Died young in 1988

Wanted everyone to make art especially kids

Show Keith Haring’s work

Project: Create a haring like art work with primary colors and shapes

Step1: in pencil: using Geometric shape: Draw  a circle head

Step2: using a square, draw a body

Step 3 using a rectangle draw two arms (show movement)

Step4: using rectangles, draw two legs (show movement) 

Step5: using ovals, draw hands and feet

Step6: Using organic shape, draw around your figure two times

Step7: paint your figure in red

Step8: paint your first organic shape in yellow

Step9: paint your next organic shape in blue

Step10: outline your figure in BLACK

Step11: create at least one set of movement lines 

Materials: 

Brushes

Water

Card stock

Red blue and yellow paint

Black paint

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