Value hands with KAWS

 

DISCUSSION: 

Talk about The Kaws painting below:

              What is happening in the piece

What type of art does it most remind you of?

Look at the second piece

Have you seen this before? When? 

What is the same about the two pieces of art? 

color and mood how does it make you feel? 

Value: tints and shades

Black: You only need a dot to change the color

Monochromatic mono (one) chrome (color)

Pure color: color from the bottle. 

ARTIST: Kaws

KAWS (1974-)

American Painter and illustrator

was born Brian Donnelly in Jersey City, New Jersey.[1] 

He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration in 1996.[2] 

After graduation, KAWS briefly worked for Disney as a freelance animator painting backgrounds. 

He also contributed to the animated series 101 Dalmatians, Daria and Doug.[3]

PROJECT: 

Step 1: On card stock, trace your hand. Make sure you finger tips are at the top of the paper and draw your wrist/arm till the bottom. 

Step 2: Draw four horizontal lines through the paper making five stripes (1 is the stripe with fingertip 5 is the bottom stripe with the wrist) seven spaced apart

Step 3: Add pure color through the middle both in and outside of the hand drawing

Step4: Paint white on the inside of the fingertips and opposite end the outside of the wrist

Step5: Mix white with red 

Step6: Add the new color inside the hand (2nd Stripe) and outside the wrist (fourth Stripe)

Step7: Paint black on the inside of the wrist (5) and the outside of the fingertips (1) 

Step6: Add black to your pure color

Step7: Add your new color inside wrist (4) outside the hand (2) 

MATERIALS:
card stock

Tempura Paint in white Black and red

Scrap paper

Tint Wire Sculptures with Elizabeth Murray

Day One: 

Prep: Create a 24” in wire circle for each student in class: Easier to work with, prevents eye pokes. 

DISCUSSION: 

Form: What is form? 

What is sculpture? 

How is sculpture different from a painting? 

3d vs 2d

Show Elizabeth Murray’s work again

How is it like s sculpture?

How is it like a painting? 

ARTIST: Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007):

Inspired by Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock’s work, as well as Pablo Picasso’s Cubist works, American painter Elizabeth Murray’s oeuvre span styles from a Minimalist use form and color to bold, cartoonish Surrealism. 

Her works push the boundaries of a two-dimensional medium;

The irregular triangles in the “Giant Maiden” series (1972) strain against the edges of canvases painted in high relief, 

While the explosive colors on an intricate collage-like canvas in Do the Dance (2005) lend the Painting a kinetic, almost optical quality.

Project: 

Step1: Using your wire circle, create an organic shape

Step2: Using plaster strips, cover wire with plaster

Step3: To Identify: put your name on the paper plate your wire sculpture is sitting on to dry. 

Materials: 

Bowl for water

Plaster wrap http://www.dickblick.com/products/plastr-craft/?clickTracking=true

Paper plates

Wire 

Day two

 Discussion: impressionism

Value

Making colors lighter

White

Light

Art Movement: impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement 

originated with a group of Paris-based artists. 

Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, 

Harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. 

The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise)

Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), common, ordinary subject matter, 

inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. 

The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

For additional information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism 

PROJECT

Step1: students  receive one pure color and white

Step2: mix their color with as much or little white as they like

Step3: paint the wire sculpture with their new color

Step4: add movement lines in black around the edges

Materials: 

Paint in many colors and white

Black paint

Paint brushes

Water containers

Paper plates for palettes. 

Post Project Week one and two: create the large sculpture by glueing the smaller works all together. I used Loctite All purpose Adhesive Caulk in Clear. 

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

Shade and Tint Gum Ball Machines with Wayne Thiebaud

DISCUSSION: How do we make colors lighter

pink, clouds, light

Tint adding white to colors

How do we make colors darker?

Black: shadows, shade

Shade: adding black to colors

When light hits an object it becomes lighter

If an object has no light it is darker

ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud 

(born November 15, 1920) 

He is an American painter 

whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, 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 gum ball machine using shade and tint

Step1: with black oil pastel draw a circle in the middle of the page

Step2: draw a square underneath the gum ball machine

Step3: draw a small rectangle on the bottom of the square color it grey

Step4: color in the large square any color

Step5: fill in the large circle with gum ball stickers

Step 6: on the right side draw in a shadow from the square to the right side of the page

Step 7: on the tops of all the gun balls add a small speck of white

MATERIALS:

oil pastels

white tag board

primary colored circle labels

Value Trees with Eric Carle

Discussion: Value: 

Hold up different colors of green and ask what color it is

how can six colors of green all be green???

Value we have talked about adding white to colors

what did it do? makes them lighter

What happens if we added black to colors?

it would make them darker

Blue becomes navy

  green becomes olive

Artist: Eric Carle

1929-

American illustrator

Famous illustrating over 70 children’s books including Brown Bear

Uses Collage to create his artwork

His art work is created in the collage technique

He uses hand painted papers

He cuts and layers each piece of collage to create bright cheerful images

Went to art school in Germany

worked as a graphic artist for the NY Times

Bring an Eric Carle book to share with the class

PROJECT: Create a tree using values of green and triangles

Step 1: On Blue Paper, paste on a tree trunk in brown rectangle

Step2: on the truck paste a green triangle

Step3: on top of the triangle paste another value of green triangle

Step4: repeat until you have five triangles on to of one another creating a tree

Step5: Using two small yellow triangles add a star on top of your tree

Step6: using stripes of cut words from magazines paste three on top of each other 

creating a snow flake

Step7: repeat until you have three snow flakes on your page

Step8: fill in more snowflakes with white oil pastels 

Step9: if time allows teh students could add a 3 to 5 ornaments to the tree using

buttons or sequins or more collage materials

MATERIALS: 

values of greens pre-cut into triangles

magazines, scrap paper

Two pre-cut yellow triangles

Glue

words from magazines cut into stripes for snowflakes

white oil pastels

Brown or olive tree trunks

ADAPTIONS: could create christmas trees with ornaments and presents

For older groups of children you could create a two week project and have them cut, create and prepare all the values of green for the project.

Repetition and shading Gumballs with Wayne Thiebaud

Kindergarten-Second grade

DISCUSSION: repetition
What does it mean to repeat?
Show one of Wayne Theibaud's Gumball Machines
Where do we see repetition in this artwork
Where else?
What does this piece of art make you think of?
Where would you see one of these gumball machines in life?
How does the gum taste? Does each color taste different?
Do you see where the light hits the gumballs inside the glass?
How did Mr Thiebaud create light?

ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud
(November 15, 1920- )
He is an American painter
whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, 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: draw a gumball machine and collage in the gumballs
Step1: WORKING TOGETHER: draw a square at the bottom of your page
Step2: Draw in a small oval at the bottom of the square
Step3: draw a rectangle at the top of the square
Step4: Draw a large circle on top of the rectangle
Step5: using oil pastels: color the square red
Step6: color the small oval black
Step 7: shade in with black on the right side of the square making a shadow. Make
the shadow run off the page in the style of Mr. Thiebaud
Step8: Add lines on the rectangle
Step9: cut out circles from collage papers and glue them inside gumball machine
Step10: continue until you have five minutes left
Step11: using white oil pastel add in the white highlights on the gumballs

MATERIALS:
White construction paper
Oil pastels
Scrappy construction papers

VALUE CIRCLES WITH KANDINSKY

Second-Fifth Grade

DISCUSSION: Color, Value:
Dominant color: Show a piece of art with one dominant color
Ask the students:what is the dom. Color?
What does the word dominant mean?
Do you like this piece?
How does it make you feel? Is it comforting?
Show another piece of art with a different dominant color
What is the mood
What is the dom. Color? Is it warm or cool? Does that add to the feeling?
VALUE: adding white to a color: tint
Adding black to a color shade
Value Scale: Show a value scale or create one on the board for the students to see.
Monochromatic: what does this word mean?
The word Mono means One and Chromatic means color. One color.

ARTIST: Wassily Kandinsky his work is in Wednesday class lesson plans
1866-1944
Russian Painter
Taught art in Munich Germany for ten years
Moved to Paris in 1933 became a citizen in 1939
He was excited by COLOR as a child
He related painting to playing music
Credited with painting the first modern abstract

PROJECT: Create Monochromatic Value Kandinsky circles on your page
Step1: choose a color. Get that color and black and white on your plate
Step2: with a pencil: draw circles on your page the size of your fist. Leave space between
Step3: repeat until you have 12 circles
Step4: draw smaller circles inside each large circle
Step5: Add black to your color and paint the background first
Step6: add white to your color and paint in a few rings
Step7: add more white to your color and paint a few more rings
Step8: continue until your finished

MATERIALS: paint
Brushes
Pencils
Water

SHADING WITH WATERCOLOR and GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

6 grade-8 grade

DISCUSSION: WATERCOLOR Techniques:
Wet on Wet
Wet on Dry
Wash
Using a paper towel to control the paint

Pass out a photograph of a different flower to each student. I gave both Black and white and color photos so they could see all the details.

Ask each student to talk about their flower

ARTIST: Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986)
An American artist.
O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s.
She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style.
She is known for paintings of flowers, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.
O'Keeffe played a central role in bringing an American art style to Europe at a time when the majority of influence flowed in the opposite direction.
This feat enhanced her art-historical importance given that she was one of few women to have gained entry to this level of professional influence.
She found artistic inspiration in the rural Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she settled late in life.

PROJECT: create a Georgia O'Keeffe Flower in watercolor
Tape your edges so you have a crisp white border around your watercolor
Step1: Draw your flower in a quick one minute blind contour drawing
FILL YOUR 12x18 page with the flower
Step2: Find the light parts of your flower and the dark parts of your flower
Step3: using watercolor techniques discussed begin to fill in your flower adding shade and tints
Step4: Finish your flower

MATERIALS:
Liquid watercolors
Paper towels
Pencils
Masking tape
Water
brushes