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

Geometric and Organic Cityscapes with Paul Klee

DISCUSSION: Geometric shape vs. Organic Shape we just went over geometric shapes

what are organic shapes?

where do we find them?

in math class?

in nature?

where do you hear that word ORGANIC?

farmer’s market

grocery store

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: Construct a City Scape using Organic and Geometric shapes

Step1: Pencil: Draw your cityscape starting at the bottom of your page (foreground)

Draw geometric and organic shaped buildings (3-5)

Step2: Draw the next set of buildings in the middle ground. Remember to have the buildings in the foreground overlap these buildings. Draw at least one organic shaped building

Step3: Draw our last set of buildings in the background. have them be overlapped by both of 

the first sets of buildings

Step4: fill in your buildings with windows (geometric or organic), lines, tops anything to make

your buildings unique like Paul Klee’s

Step5: Fill in with chalk pastels in primary and secondary colors like Paul Klee. 

Step6: the background could remain white or you could make it brown like Paul Klee’s work.

MATERIALS: White paper

Oil pastels

Pencils


Additional photo's of student work:

Night Cityscapes with Paul Klee

Second-Fifth Grade

DISCUSSION: pattern with shape
What is pattern? What makes something a pattern? Repetition.
Where do we see pattern: wrapping paper, clothing, wallpaper
Do we see pattern in this room? Do we see pattern in art? Fiber art?

Show one of Paul Klee's Cityscape's
Talk about the repetition of shapes
What shapes do you see in this piece
Do Colors and shapes repeat?
Do you see a pattern?

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.

PROJECT: Create a cityscape using pattern paper (wrapping paper scrapbook paper)
Step1: 12x18 black paper
Step2: splatter orange and yellow paint on the background at a paint table
Step3: Cut rectangle shapes for buildings in all different heights and patterns
Step4: glue down your city
Step5: add details: toppers, windows, doors, etc.

MATERIALS:
Black paper
Paint
Brushes
Scraps of gift wrapping paper or scrap booking paper
Scissors
glue

This project was inspired by one I saw on deepspacesparkle.com

Marbled Portraits with Paul Klee

Day 1
One Hour Class

DISCUSSION:

MarblingSuminagashi" is a unique style of marbling which was developed in Japan."Suminagashi" first appeared (A.D. 794-1185), a period during which Japan was emerging from influence of ChinaThe name is derived from two Japanese words; "sumi" which means black ink, and "nagashi" which means floating.basic characteristics of the marbling: delicate sworls of black colour which appear to float on the surface of the paper. Many sources will cite "suminagashi" as the first known marbling technique in history.After a two hundred year hiatus, marbling techniques resurfaced in the Near East.Both paper and marbling techniques came from Turkistan along the silk caravan routes to Persia and Turkey.Several reasons may be given for the absence of early examples of marbled paper.Paper is fragile and ephemeral by nature, and the normal vicissitudes of time, vermin, dampPaper and paper products were very costly, and for this reason were considered luxury items to be enjoyed only by the aristocracy and the wealthy.This view is substantiated by the relatively small number of manuscripts, books and miniatures incorporating marbling which are included in large collections of Islamic art, such as that in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul.India, Persia and Turkey were very significant locations in the history of paper marbling after it was brought from Japan. These three stopping points that the trail of paper marbling followed across Asia and Europe represent the most important period of technological development the process of paper marbling would ever experience.

Project: Create paper marbling papers in all different colors

Step1: shaving cream on a tray

Step2: each student chooses colors to swirl on top of the shaving cream. use a stick to swirl

Step3: lay the paper on top, pull the paper off. Pull the shaving cream with a ruler

Step4: continue until all students have several pieces of marbles papers in different colors

MATERIALS:

Shaving cream

Liquid watercolors

Tag board

Day 2

One Hour Class

DISCUSSION:

Drawing Portraits

Go Over how to draw the face in proportion

Step: Draw a oval for a head

Step 2: very softly draw a line vertically down the center of the face

Step3: very softly draw a line horizontally across the center of the face

Step4: draw the eyes on the horizontal line

Step5: Very softly draw a line half way between the eye line and the bottom of the oval

Step6: Draw the nose, L shape or triangle shape, the bottom of the nose falls on the second line

Step7: very softly draw a line in the center between the nose line and the bottom of the oval

Step8: draw the mouth on the third line

ON SCRAP PAPER: Let the student practice drawing a correct facial proportion

Study Paul Klee’s face

ARTIST:

Paul Klee 18 (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.

ON SCRAP PAPER: Let the student practice drawing a face like paul klee’s

Give them space to try new things with the shapes and charcoal

PROJECT:Draw a paul klee face on the marbling paper they made from last week

MATERIALS:

Marbling paper

Charcoal

White paper to practice