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

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. 

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

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. 

DISCUSSION: 

Look at the story book Where the Wild Things Are

What shapes do you see

What shapes are spikes and horns made from?

What Lines do you see?

Do you see organic shapes?

Artist:Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928) 

American writer and illustrator of children's literature.  

He is best known for his book, Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.

One of his first professional commissions was to create window displays for the toy store 

F.A.O. Schwarz. 

His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. 

He spent much of the 1950s illustrating children's books written by others before beginning to write his own stories.

For additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sendak

PROJECT:

Step1: Using your piece of yarn, lay out and organic shape on your page to begin

Step2: Using Oil Pastels trace the outside of your organic shape. This makes your monsters head

Step3: add 2 geometric shapes for eyes

Step3: add one organic shape for a nose

Step4: add a line for a mouth. WAIT! How does your monster feel? Happy or sad, Angray or confused? This could help make your decision. 

Step5: add two organic shapes for ears

Step4: add 5 geometric shapes for hair

Step5: add spikes, gils, teeth, horns, feathers or any other things you can think of with your black 

Step6: Fill in your geometric/organic monster with colors. 

MATERIALS:

White paper

Black sharpies or oil pastels

Piece of string

All colors of oil pastels

This lesson plan has been adapted from: http://ourartlately.blogspot.com/2011/09/organic-shape-monsters.html

Printmaking Geometric Animals with Roberto Montenegro

PREPARATION: as students arrive for class ask them to brayer one color onto the paper
we used grey for this project

Take a look at: 

Jaguar and the Moon

Oil on canvas, circa 1950s. 

By Roberto Montenegro Crocker Art Museum

DISCUSSION: 

what do you see here?

Is it flat?

Does it appear to be made from paper?

What about the colors the artist chose?

How many colors?

What is the purple shape?

Why did the artist chose purple for the moon?

Why is the jaguars head Black and the rest of it’s body yellow?

What about the shapes and dots around the Jaguar?

ARTIST: Roberto Montenegro Nervo (1885-1968) 

he was a Mexican painter, illustrator, and stage designer.

In 1903, Roberto Montenegro began studying painting in Guadalajara under Felix Bernardelli, a Brazilian-Mexican artist

He lived in Mexico City, and in 1904 began studying architecture. 

It wasn't long after he abandoned it to study at the Academia de San Carlos under many talented artists

Some of his fellow students were Diego Rivera and Francisco Goitia.

An influential promoter of popular arts, Montenegro organized events like the first popular arts festival which was held in 1921. he also published "Pintura Mexicana del Periodo 1800-1860" in the 1930

PROJECT: printmaking animals

Step1: Encourage students to see any animal as a series of shapes. ex: cat: two triangles for ears, circle for a face, oval for a body, rectangles for legs. add pieces of sticky foam to create the shape of any animal

Step2: For the cat: cut out two triangles and place them on the top of the card board piece

Step3: continue adding shapes to your cardboard until you have your whole animal created.

Step4: On a small piece of cardboard create a shape to be added around your animal like a moon or stars

For printing: LIMIT COLOR CHOICES FOR THE STUDENTS. we were able to choose form three red, yellow or blue.

Step3: Print your animal on your prepared paper using one color for the animal and one for the shape

Step5: using a q-tip add dots in and around your animal

Step6: using forks, wine corks and any additional items, add pattern in your background

Materials,

Paper in white black or grey or all three

Paint

Sticky foam rectangles

cardboard base

q-tips

scissors

cork

forks

Organic and geometric Repetition Animals with Maija Peeples-Bright

 3 Day Project

Day 1

Take a look at the work: Woodpecker Wimea with Weightlifters

Oil on canvas 1982 by Maija Peeples-Bright

Discussion:

What do you see in this piece

What is repetition

Do you see texture

How many different colors are used

Are the birds always painted the same?

If you can forget for a  moment that they are birds what does the painting look like?

do you see any shapes? what shapes do you see?

What is a shape? Name some

What is an organic shape? Can you name some of those? Where do we see them?

Artist: Maija Peeples-Bright  (1942-)

Maija was born in Riga, Latvia in 1942.  Maija and her parents then moved to Northern California when she was 8

She is known for paintings, prints and ceramic sculptures of zany lovable animals and bright flowers.

She was well into completing her math degree at UC Davis in 1963 when her counselor advised her to take an art class to fulfill general education requirements. 

On her first day in the class, she unknowingly stepped right into the middle of what's known today as the California Funk movement. 

Eventually she ended up palling around with such notables as Robert Arneson, William T. Wiley, Peter VandenBerge, David Gilhooly and Roy DeForest. 

"I was so lucky that Davis was just this hotbed of art at the time that I was there," says Peeples-Bright,    

In 1967, Maija lived in San Francisco in a house she helped paint every color that Dutch Boy produced and called her work "The Rainbow House."  

"I do art in just about everything—my shirts, crochet my blankets. 

Maija studied under Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson to gain her Master's in only one year at the University of  Davis.  Maija prefers to isolate herself from the art world and work in her garage studio in Eldorado Hills, California.

Project: over several days and steps create a work inspired by the work of Maija Peoples-Bright

Step1: Blue Tape 1/2 inch border around a large piece of thick paper, tape to a board

Step2: Draw three large geometric shapes the same or different

Step2: Draw three large organic shapes within and around the geometric shapes

Step3: fill in any blank spots with shapes both Geo and organic

Step4: using tempura paints, Paint shapes both organic and geometric of different colors

Materials: 

Thick paper 12x18

tempura paint

pencil

Day 2: 

Discussion: revisit all discussion topics from day 1

Focus on repetition 

Tint: adding white to colors

Value: what is value 

what happens when you add white to colors?

Make Paint: 

Give each student a bowl of different color paint and a brush

add a portion of white to each bowl and have the student create the new colors

Project: 

Step1: using a pencil, choose one shape and fill it in with at least 2 of the same animal

Step2: in another shape, fill it with at least 2 of another animal

Step3: continue on until all shapes are full, some shapes could be filled with only one animal

Step4: put the new paint colors one on each table in the studio.  Have the students move about to the studio to each table to add the new paint colors to the animals

Day 3

revisit the previous two days discussions

Oil Pastels: what are they?

How do we use them?

When and how were they created?

Value: Shade

What happens when you add Black to a color?

Make Paint: 

Give each student a bowl of different color paint and a brush

add a small portion of black to each bowl and have the student create the new colors

Project: 

Step1: using oil pastels add details to your animals

             eyes, scales, contour lines, etc.
Step2: put the new paint colors one on each table in the studio.  Have the students move about to the studio to each new color
Step3: using a q-tip add dots around each original shape


Materials:
Oil pastels
Q-tips
Paint Brushes
Black paint
White Paint
pencils
bowls