Wetland landscapes with Roy De Forest

Discussion: Landscape

Forground 

Middle Ground

Back Ground

Horizon Line

Using Chalk

Artist Roy De Forest

Look at the artwork: Rainforest Painter By Roy De Forest

Do you see a horizon line? 

what is in the foreground? 

What do you see in the middle ground?

What is happening in the background

Do you see any shapes? 

ARTIST: Roy De Forest (1930–2007) 

American painter known for his comic-like patchwork regionalist (California) style, often depicting dogs & other figurative content in his art.

Born in North Platte, Nebraska, De Forest grew up in Yakima, Washington and attended junior college there. He then attended San Francisco Art Institute and earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree at San Francisco State University.

His first show was in 1955. He taught at the University of California, Davis, from 1965 to 1992. A retrospective organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art toured in 1975.

He was one of the originators of a Northern California art movement once described by Washington Post art reviewer Sidney Lawrence as a style "in which counterculture thinking fused with an anything-goes, anti-art attitude harking back to the Dadaists of the World War I era." called "California funk," a classification De Forest disliked.

"At 75, Mr. De Forest is painting pretty much what he has painted for years: dogs, men in hats or headdresses, and supernatural beings against a flattened terrain 

De Forest was born in 1930 in North Platte, Neb., the son of migrant farmworkers. 

In addition to Thiebaud and Arneson, De Forest's colleagues in the UC Davis art department included such prominent artists as William Wiley, Manuel Neri and Ralph Johnson.

Prominent American sculptor John Buck, a student and longtime friend of De Forest, called the artist "the champion of imagination."

De Forest and his wife, Gloria, lived in Port Costa, Calif., on land populated by cattle, birds and the dogs that inspired so much of his art. 

PROJECT: Using sharpies and chalk pastels create a wetland landscape:

Step1: Draw a triangle on the right hand side

Step2: Draw a horizon line from the middle of the triangle to the other side below this is now water

Step3: At the top of the triangle draw a tree trunk and have it y off over the water

Step4: draw a circle at the top of the left hand side

Step5: Draw a square anywhere you have space

Step6: Draw a heron on the bank

Small circle, two lines down, large circle, two lines down add feet, tuff of hair on both circles

Step7: Add tall grass on shore with tulles, ADD a moon or sun

Step8: in The circle add a wetland creature

Step9: in the square add another wetland creature

Step10: fill in the picture with fun color, dots and details like deforest. 

MATERIALS: 

Thick Paper

Chalk Pastels

Hair spray 

sharpies or pencils

Value and Movement with Van Gogh

THIS PROJECT IS MEANT TO CREATE THE MOVING NIGHT SKY. A successful project will have blue colored in in circular motion and a change in value in each color used. 

Discussion Value

What makes Colors lighter? 

What makes colors darker?

Why do we need colors to be lighter or darker? 

Does green grass look the same at dinner time as it does at lunch time? 

Artists have to show that color change

What if we have red roses and pink roses? But no pink paint? 

Movement Show Starry Night

When we look at Starry Night, does it look like the the clouds are moving?

Do you think Van Gogh moved his hands slowly or quickly when he was painting the night sky? 

Why is movement or rhythm so important in artwork? 

ARTIST: 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 suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life,

died largely unknown, at the age of 37

sold only one painting while he was alive

PROJECT: 

Step1: on left hand side add black triangle

Step2: on Right hand side add in yellow and orange moon

Step3: between the moon and the black tree add 5 stars in yellow and orange 

Step4: now color your sky blue but avoid the stars by going around them in circles. Keep you hand moving in a circular motion while adding all the blue.

Step5: Now add white on top of each of the colors in the artwork. Does white change the colors? 

MATERIALS:
Chalk Pastels

White paper

water

Picasso Cubism Guitars

RECAP: Blind Contour Drawing

DISCUSSION: abstract art: last week when we saw the flowers did we have any problem deciding they were flowers? Was there a question in our minds about what they were?

Show Picasso's Three Musicians Now look at this piece? what is it?

where is it?

what do you think you see?

Cubism: objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context

Drawing the same object from several perspectives

What is perspective (viewpoint)

Shade and Tint: light and dark. show them how to add in blocks (like a map) to add in these details

ARTIST: Pablo Picasso 

(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.  

He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles throughout his work 

Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 

He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 

During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 

Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in many mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. 

His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes.

He is the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

PROJECT: you will have to move around the room for this project. 

Step1: using the BLIND CONTOUR TECH. from last week, draw the guitar from where you are seated

take a moment at each step to see the light and dark areas of the guitar. add in 

Step2: Switch places with a friend, and repeat the first step again drawing right on top of the first

take a moment at each step to see the light and dark parts of our guitar 

Step3: repeat step 2.

take a moment at each step to see the light and dark parts of our guitar 

Step4: using Multi Media (newspapers, oil pastels, chalk pastels, markers, paint, fabric) begin to fill in each shape. remember lines from last week. all wavy line in one shape could be interesting.

Step5: continue to add until you feel the project is complete

MATERIALS: 

Thick paper Card stock or bristol board

mixed media, newspaper, fabric, paint, oil and chalk pastels

glue

scissors

pencils

sharpies

Organic and Geometric shapes with Matisse

Second-Fifth Grade

Discussion: Geometric and Organic shapes
Have a few of Matisse's artworks that illustrate both geometric and organic shapes.
Geometric shapes: what are they?
Why are they called geometric?
Where do we see them in life everyday?
How do they help us get to school?
have you used the word geometric in your math class?
Organic shapes: name one in this classroom?
Where are they in nature everyday
Why are they called organic?
Where do we hear the word organic used a lot?

ARTIST: Henri Matisse
(1869-1954)
French Painter,
Studied law until he was 21
Mother gave him a paint box after surgery and he discovered painting
He returned to work, and every morning before work, he attended drawing classes; at lunch time he would paint for an hour or so, and then return to work. After work he would paint till night fell. It was his life.
In 1891 set off for Paris.
Matisse began his journey of studies which ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color.
Matisse felt that his greatest influence had been the work of the artist Cezanne (1839 – 1906, French).
In the 1950‘s, Matisse began creating paintings using paint and paper cut outs.
In his last years, as he aged and fell ill, Matisse continued to paint, this time on the walls of his room, using a piece of charcoal attached to the end of a bamboo pole. He painted until his death in 1954.
Matisse had strong feelings about only one thing, the act of painting.
The purpose of these pictures, he always asserted, was to give pleasure.
For Matisse, painting was the rhythmic arrangement of line and color on a flat plane.
He had created the technique of striking contrasts, unmixed hues, flat planes of color (similar to Gauguin, 1848 – 1903, French)
expressive brush strokes (similar to Van Gogh, 1853 – 1890, Dutch).
Light was expressed, not in the method of the Impressionists, but with a harmony of intensely covered surfaces.

For additional information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

PROJECT:reduce Matisse's Purple Robe and Anemonies down to simple geometric shapes and redraw.
Step1: begin to see the organic shapes as Geometric and redraw it accordingly
Step2: When you begin to draw, FILL YOUR PAGE
Step3: use mixed media to fill in the work
Markers
Oil pastels
Chalk pastels
Colored pencils

MATERIALS:
Poster of Matisse's work: Purple Robe and Anemonies
White paper
pencils

Warm and Cool Colors with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: Warm and Cool Colors

Choose a piece of art that has more warm colors and ask students questions about it, like:

what colors do you see?

Does it change how you are feeling?

What is happening?

How might it smell?

Choose a piece of art that has more cool colors and ask students questions about it, like:

what colors do you see?

What is happening in the piece?

How do you feel when you look at it?

How might it smell?

Landscapes:

Horizon line first

Foreground

Middle ground

Background

Pick a landsacpe by Van Gogh and discuss it with the students

ARTIST:

VAN GOGH1853-1890

Dutch Painter

Known for the way he applied paint to the canvas

In 1888 he moved to paris to paint

Sold only one piece of art while he was alive

Loved vivid colors landscapes, movementPainted with Gauguin

PROJECT: Create a landscape in the style of van Gogh

WORK TOGETHER AS A GROUP!!!

Step1: with Black Oil pastel: draw rolling hills in the foreground (front)

Step2: Draw three large mountains behind in the middle ground

Step3: Draw the sun in the corner

Step4: Draw rings of the sun in the background

Step5: With Chalk pastels: fill in the foreground with Cool colors

Step6: fill in the background with warm colors

Materials:

Black oil pastels

Chalk pastels

White paper

Hairspray or fixative

I adapted this lesson from one I found on one of my favorite sites deepspacesparkle. Here is the link:http://deepspacesparkle.blogspot.com/2008/05/coolwarm-modern-landscapes.html