Warm and Cool Imagination Drawings with Chagall

Discussion: 

Warm and cool colors 

What are warm colors? 

How can they make us feel? 

Excited angry hungry

What are cool colors? 

How do they makes us feel? 

Relax, calm, sad

Imagination: what does it mean to have imagination

Dreams, creative

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: 

Step1: using a pencil draw a tree in the middle of the paper long ways

Step2: turn the paper

Step3: draw a house square triangle add windows and details

Step4: turn the paper

Step5: draw circles and stars

Step6: turn the paper

Step7: draw a person like they are flying 

Step8: color the objects in using warm colors

Step9: add white oil pastels to any object that you want to be white

Step10: add black to outline objects or add movement

Step11: using liquid watercolor in cool colors

Materials: 

Pencil

Card stock

Oil pastels in warm colors

Liquid watercolors in cool colors

This lesson was adapted from: The Incredible Art Department. Thanks!!!

Imagination Color Wheel Forests with Marc Chagall

 DISCUSSION: 

Color wheel

primary Colors

Secondary Colors

Mouse Paint

Show Chagall 

what do you think of this piece?

Do you see the upside down houses?

Do you see a large animal with a tiny animal on it’s face?

What about a tree?

Do you see a giant green face?

Are all the primary colors there?

what about secondary?

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

worked from dreams and imagination

Mastered stain glass in his sixties

PROJECT: CREATE A COLOR WHEEL FOREST

PREPARATION: create primary colored squeeze bottles for this project

where is says mix add both colors to that section of their paper

Step1: On the left side, top of your page, Paint a red tree top

Step2: On the Right side top of your page paint a yellow tree top

Step3: On the bottom middle of your page paint a blue tree bottom

Step4: Mix the color Orange and on the middle top paint an orange tree top

Step5: Mix the color Green and on the bottom right of our paper paint the color green

Step 6: Mix the color purple and paint a tree bottom on teh bottom left of your paper

Step 7: along the very bottom of your page add black watercolor 

Step8: Now tilt your page so the watercolor trickles into the treetops creating our forest. 

MATERIALS:

Squeeze bottles filled with Primary colored tempura paint

Black watercolor

white tag board

brushes

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