Graffiti Stencil Project

Lesson Objective: Using Stencils, create a work of art with a message based on Graffiti History. 

Key Vocabulary: 

Graffiti is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall in  public place.

   Stencil: a thin sheet of cardboard, plastic, or metal with a pattern or letters cut out of it, used to produce   the cut design on the surface below by the application of ink or paint through the holes.

Iconography: the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the interpretation 

Symbols are something represented in the work of art—an object, an action, or a pattern

Symbols can be nonrepresentational item such as a color or a line

Materials: 

Crayola Air Brush

Crayola Markers

Heavy paper to cut stencils 

Cutting board

xacto Knives

Focus art: Graffiti 

CA Art Standards

1.5 Analyze the material used by a given artist and describe how its use influences the meaning of the work.

2.6 Create a two or three-dimensional work of art that addresses a social issue.

3.4 Discuss the purposes of art in selected contemporary cultures.

4.1 Articulate how personal beliefs, cultural traditions, and current social, economic, and political contexts influence the interpretation of the meaning or message in a work of art.

4.2 Compare the ways in which the meaning of a specific work of art has been affected over time because of changes in interpretation and context.

4.5 Employ the conventions of art criticism in writing and speaking about works of art.

5.2 Create a work of art that communicates a cross-cultural or universal theme taken from literature or history.

Modifications: 

English Language Learner: Handout for project, project samples, Power point with visuals, Critique for additional understanding, Demonstration of techniques

Special Needs: Handout for project, project samples, Power point with visuals, Critique for additional understanding, Demonstration of techniques

Accelerated Learner: Expand on skills learned to create a unique project. 

Scaffolding adaptations: 

Students will revisit art elements from the earlier learning. We will use similar visuals to refresh previous knowledge.  Notes on color, scale and artists will be taken throughout discussions for added understanding. Creating sketchbook plans and Constructing final project will be demo started in class using guided instruction.

Direct instruction:

Graffiti is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall in  public place.

Graffiti ranges from written words to wall paintings, and it has existed since ancient times

Examples date back to Ancient Egypt & Ancient Greece

Both "graffiti" and its singular form "graffito" are from the Italian word graffiato ("scratched"). 

"Graffiti" in art history: works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface. 

Spray Paint and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials. 

In most countries, marking or painting property without the property owner's consent is considered defacement and vandalism, which is a punishable crime.

1981: Fab 5 Freddy's friendship with Debbie Harry influenced Blondie's single "Rapture" 

The video featured Jean-Michel Basquiat, and offered the first glimpse of a depiction of elements of graffiti in hip hop culture. 

1980’s Keith Haring was another well-known graffiti artist who brought Pop Art and graffiti to the commercial mainstream. 

Then we saw the emergence of the new stencil graffiti genre. Some of the first examples were created in 1981

Banksy starts using stencils almost exclusively by 2000

Works of art may not only have subject matter, they may also contain symbols

   

 Stencil: a thin sheet of cardboard, plastic, or metal with a pattern or letters cut out of it, used to produce the cut design on the surface below by the application of ink or paint through the holes.

Iconography: the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the interpretation 

Symbols are something represented in the work of art—an object, an action, or a pattern

Symbols can be nonrepresentational item such as a color or a line

To become a symbol, people have to adopt or accept

The cross is a symbol of Christianity,  symbol of suffering

The Sun as the symbol of life and strength 

River is the symbol of eternal change/flowing

The eagle on the standard of America symbolizes strength

Emojis as symbols

Emoji facts: 

USA loves pizza emoji

Canada Loves poop emoji

Australia loves party symbols

Over all mostly happy faces

Project Requirements: 

Sketchbook: Students will complete a study of their stencils, repetition, overlapping, movement as a drawing. 

Their drawing should include a five symbols and a social/cultural message through color and symbols (Iconography)

They will finish their drawing using color.

Submit sketch to Morrison for Final paper

Students must create at least 5 stencils in card stock

Final Project: Using created stencils, student will use overlapping, repetition, pictures and symbols that represent you or your message as an artist. 

Using knowledge gained from the year, address several principles of art: Balance, Scale,  Rhythm, Unity, Movement, Emphasis, Contrast, Pattern

Watercolor bowls with Chihuly

Discussion: Form 

Pattern

Glass sculpture

Chiluly’s artwork

Artist: Chihuly (1941-       )

Born in Tacoma, Washington,
Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. 

After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. 

He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade.

His work is included in more than 200 hundred museum collections worldwide. 

He has been the recipient of many awards, including eleven honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

team approach to blowing glass

major exhibition venues include the de Young Museum in San Francisco, in 2008,

Project: 

Step 1: using washable markers, create a pattern on a coffee filter

Step2: spray it with liquid starch and set it over a bottle to dry

Step3: hot glue the form to a piece of black construction paper for final display. 

Materials:

Washable markers

Coffee filters

Hot glue

Liquid starch (dollar Store)

For additional information on this project, check out this great blog: http://www.thecrayonlab.com/search/label/sculpture

Pattern Landscapes with Wayne Thiebaud

DISCUSSION: Pattern

What is pattern? 

Where do you find it?

Have we seen pattern in any artwork we have studied?

Discuss landscapes

Horizon line, foreground, background

Wayne Thiebaud and this landscape:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/03/arts/design/03wayne-grfk.html

Do you see pattern?

How many different patterns

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 a farm landscape with pattern

Step1: with black marker, draw an upside down letter v in the top middle of the paper

Step2: draw two straight lines coming off your V

Step3: draw a line across and then make it into a square down

Step4: add another square in the top and add the letter x

Step5: Add a square inside your square and add two XX’s

Step6: add two window to finish your barn

Step7: draw two lines to either side creating a horizon line

Step8: draw one line down from the barn through the foreground

Step9: draw two diagonal lines from either corner of the barn

Step10: Fill the first open space with clouds (make a pattern, not one cloud, 3 clouds)

Step11: fill the opposite side with trees (Pattern, 3 trees)

Step12: fill the other four open spaces with stripes, polka dots, diagonal lines, squiggly lines, etc...

Step 11: Color in all your pattern with color, remember we want a pattern so stick to two or three colors for each pattern

MATERIALS:

black sharpie markers

all colors of markers

Once these were in my computer, I realized they are a great project to discuss perspective. Many of the children were able to achieve perspective in these drawings without even trying. This is another great discussion point for this project. 

Line and shape overlap portfolios with Miro

Discussion: shapes

name a shape

how do we use line to make a shape

how did we use shapes to get to school today?

                        what do we eat in the shape of a triangle or square  

Overlapping 

what does it mean to overlap?

                        when you sit on your mom's lap are you overlapping your mom?

can shapes overlap

Show a piece of Miro's artwork:

Do you see shapes in Miro's artwork?

What colors did he use?

Are Miro's shapes overlapping?

Artist:Joan MIRO  (1893-1983)

Spanish painter, sculpture

Would not commit to a certain art style

Associated with the surrealists

Born to the families of a goldsmith and watchmaker, 

young Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse 

1920 moved to Paris, France. He was influenced by the poets and writers, 

He developed his unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line. 

He would dream about his paintings

He would see the shapes on the ceiling

Project: create a miro inspired shape overlap on portfolios

step1: draw a shape

step2: draw another shape and have them touch corners

Step3: draw a third shape and have that shape touch both of the other shapes

Step4: add lines in black squiggling around the shapes more then one is great

Step5: using markers, fill in some of the shapes here and there Try very hard to stay inside the lines

MATERIALS:

card stock

sharpie markers

magic markers

Warm and Cool still lives with Cezanne

DISCUSSION: 

How do the color schemes affect our moods?

Warm colors: red orange yellow

       to move toward the viewer

      excite us and raise our blood pressure.

Cool colors: blue green purple

        appear to move back and away (recede) from the viewer

        soothe us and lower our blood pressure

Talk about each of the paintings

     How do they make you feel?

     Make up a story behind the art

Now look at Fruit Bowl, pitcher and fruit by Cezanne

  What do you see in the picture

  Do you notice any flaws in the perception?

  what colors are the fruit?

  can we make up a story about what is happening in the painting

ARTIST: Paul Cézanne  (1839 – 1906) 

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter

His work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. 

Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. 

The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" 

Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, color, tone, composition and draughtsmanship. 

His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. 

He used planes of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. 

The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

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

PROJECT:  WARM and COOL FRUIT

Step 1: on your graph paper draw a large piece of fruit (try to fill half of the page)

Step 2: decide is my background warm or cool? Is my Fruit warm or cool?

Step3: use warm colors to fill in that section you choose

Step 4: use cool colors to fill in the remaining section

Step 5: write name

Step 6: clean up

Step 7: place work in your portfolio

MATERIALS:

Markers

pencils

1” to 1.5” Graph Paper

Porportion Portraits with Van Gogh (ASAP)

DISCUSSION: Portraits

What is a portrait?

Have you ever had one made of yourself? Yes, school photo is a portrait

What does a portrait need to be a portrait?

a PERSON!!!

What does a person have on their face?

eyes, nose hair, mouth, ears, eyebrows, cheeks, etc..

What is an ALL STUDENT ART PROJECT (ASAP)?

What do you think that means

have you made on before?

How do you think it gets used?

VAN GOGH

Vincent  van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter 

His work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art

Known for his  vivid colors and emotional impact. 

Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties

most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. 

He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. 

His work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed. 

Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.

Known for his paint application creating texture and movement.

He died largely unknown, at the age of 37

sold only one painting while he was alive

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

Project: Students will create a self portrait on a 2x3 piece of paper to be used in the ASAP

Step1: pencil: Draw a circle for your head

Step2: draw two lines for your neck and some shoulders

Step3: Draw in smaller circles for your 2 eyes

Step4: draw in a nose any shape: triangle, line, L

Step5: draw in your mouth: curved line, circle, oval...up to you

Step6: Draw in your hair in your hair color

Step7: ears, eyebrows, any details head band, etc

Step8: fill in using oils pastels

Step9: don't for get to fill in your background color our pattern

MATERIALS:

                oil pastels

2x3 paper

pencils