Warm and Cool Hearts with Jim Dine

PREPARATION: precut Heart stencils from card stock and tape them to the table. Students will slip their paper underneath. 

DISCUSSION: Warm and Cool Colors

What are warm colors?

How do they make us feel?

Where/When do we see them?

What are cool colors?

How can they make us feel?

Where/when do we see them?

ARTIST

Jim Dine born June 16, 1935

American pop artist. 

He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. 

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University 

 He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. 

Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world. 

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.

This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America

Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

PROJECT: create oil pastel heart with stencil  

Step 1: name on paper

Step2: place stencil on paper and tape down

Step3: Color inside the stencil with warm oil pastels

Step4: remove stencil

Step5: fill in background with cool color of water colors

Step6: place on drying rack

MATERIALS:

Heart stencils

Oil pastels

Liquid watercolors in cool colors

Value Hearts with Jim Dine

Week one of a two week project: 

      grades 2-6

DISCUSSION: Value

What does value mean?

What happens when you add white to a color? TINT

What happens when you add black to a color? SHADE

How important is it to have value in art?

     DRAW A VALUE CHART: 

White is on this end

Black is on the opposite end

        Pure color is in the middle

                what is pure color? Color in it's truest form right from the bottle

Tint is between white and pure it is a little of both mixed together

Shade is between pure and black and it is a little of both mixed together.

 Look at Jim Dine's Green heart done in the 80’s

how many shades of green do you see?

What other colors are prominent?

        What is hidden in the center? a mitten

What does the work mean? Could we make a story about it?

  Look at the next heart

How many values of red do you see?

How do you think he created this piece?

        can you see the brush strokes?

        if the artwork were only one shade of red, would it be a interesting?

ARTIST: Jim Dine 

born 1935-

American pop artist. 

He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. 

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University 

 He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. 

Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world. 

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.

This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America

Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

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

PROJECT: Create Value Hearts in three colors

Step1: On a 12x18 piece of white paper draw 15 hearts about the size of your fist or smaller.

Step2: Choose three colors, white and black

Step3: Paint three of your hearts white

Step 4: paint three of your hearts in black

Step5: paint three hearts in your pure color (red)

Step6: Mix white and pure (red) together now (about 1/2 and 1/2) and paint three hearts

Step4: Mix black and 1 pure together (black goes a long way so just a dot at a time) and paint three hearts

MATERIALS: 

paint: white, black and one pure (I choose red)

       12x18 paper 

        pencils

WEEK 2 

RECAP last weeks vocabulary, etc.: 

Jim Dine: Value, Value Chart,  Pure color, Tint, Shade

DISCUSSION: Show Jim Dines work again

Collage: What does this word mean?

    Does he use collage in the green piece?

    What is he trying to say in this piece?

Overlapping: to place on top of something 

Balance: finding balance in your art is as important as staying balanced in life

      it is no fun to have someone let go when you are plying tug of war

           or jump off on the see saw. 

  How is Jim Dine's work balanced? 

Project: collage together a Jim Dine style heart with mini value hearts on a large heart

Step1: on a 9x12 sheet of card stock Draw a heart that fills the page

Step 1/2: WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE BACK

Step2: cut out all your hearts from last week

Step3: begin to lay out your small hearts into the larger heart

will the be light to dark, dar to light of random?

Step4: Think about all the things we talked about. 

Is it balanced?

Should I overlap?

Step5: when you get it just right you may begin to glue down each heart. 

Materials: 

Painted hearts from week 1

scissors

Card stock

glue sticks

Shrinky Dink Hearts with Jim Dine

Preschool Lesson Plan:

DISCUSSION: 

Hearts and drawing hearts 

How do we draw a heart?

First we draw the letter m or the number three laying down

Then we draw a V under neth: let’s try it

Pop Art: what is popular for you guys?

What do you enjoy doing or playing with at home?

If you were to draw your most favorite toy what would you draw?

Pop artists took simple items or poular culture items and turned them into fine art

ARTIST:  Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935)

 American pop artist.

 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended the University of Cincinnati 

Received a BFA from Ohio University in 1957. 

He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. 

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking gallery show:  New Painting of Common Objects.

This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America. 

These painters started a movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the Art world and changed modern Art forever, "Pop Art".

In the early 1960s Dine produced pop art with items from everyday life. These provided commercial as well as critical success

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

READ  HUGVILLE talk about how getting a hug makes your heart grow!!!

PROJECT: using clear shrinky dink paper cut into 31/2” squares ( these hearts will be mounted together as one project for the auction. 

Step1: on the ROUGH side of the square ask the kids to draw a heart

Step2: fill in the heart and the background to create your finished project

MATERIALS:
colored pencils

Clear shrinky dink paper (found it at michaels) cut to 31/2” squares

To prepare the finished work:

Ikea has beautiful frames with mattes included

Pick your Frame/matte

Use the matte to cut an illustration board to the right size

Using a pencil draw light lines to show where the matte begins so you know where to place the shrinky dinks.

Use glue circles to glue shrinky dinks to illustration board

Finish and pop it into a frame


adaption: 
Romaro Britto: 

Jim Dine WATERCOLOR Hearts

Kindergarten and First Grade

DISCUSSION: WATERCOLOR Techniques
Watercolors come in liquid form and cake form:
This is probably what you are used to using at home
The small ovals of Colors are called cakes
Professional watercolor artists use tubes of watercolors that they
place in a covered palette. They dry up and can be wet again and again
We are using liquid watercolors today
The come in bottles and they are very thin like water but
the colors are very vibrant
There are several important watercolor techniques and tricks that artists use.
Wet on dry watercolors means to have wet watercolors and paint onto dry
paper. This technique is easy to control the paint only goes where
you paint it.
Wet on Wet: is to paint wet watercolors on wet paper
This is less controlled and more dramatic
Wash: this is one color of watercolors applied in the wet on wet technique

ARTIST:
Jim Dine
born June 16, 1935
American pop artist.
He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University
He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings.
Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world.
In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.
This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America
Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

for more information about Jim Dine please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine

PROJECT: Create Dine like hearts in both types of watercolors
Step1: Draw a heart
Step2: outline the heart in black oil pastels or Sharpie
Step3: using clear water wet the INSIDE of the heart
Step4: using all colors of liquid water colors fill in your hearts like Jim Dine
Step5: using wet on dry technique paint the background of your heart using one color you have not yet used
Step6: turn in your piece and clean your space

MATERIALS:
Liquid watercolors in all colors
Brushes
Water
Large watercolor paper
Oil Pastels or Sharpies

PROJECT ADDITIONS/ALTERNATIVES:

You could incorporate warm and cool color discussion into this project by having the heart

be in warm or cool and the background be the opposite

You could incorporate Symmetry into this project by cutting symmetrical hearts to watercolor and pasting them into a washed background.