Mixed Media Collage Final Project

Mixed Media Collage Reproduction
• Must create a reproduction of work by any famous artist. 

• Minimum 12” X 18” 

Must incorporate: 

Blind contour

Create depth and/or perspective

Shading and value to create form:

USE ONE: Stippling, scumbling, hatching, cross hatching, etc. 

Tessellation OR Op art reference

Pop Art reference

One of the following: Oval action figure, gestural figure OR portrait

Visual and/or tactile texture

Color, emotion, mood

Newspaper and/or magazine 

Paint (watercolor or acrylic) 

Oil Pastel

Graphite pencil drawing

Pen and ink (sharpie OR black ink pen)

• Required: Please complete the artist statement and final rubric. Blue tape both on the back.
• Required: Title of work: incorporate original artist’s name into your title. 
• One day to find your fine art inspiration
• Four days of studio time, three days of independent work. 
• Due with presentation, including: why you chose the artwork and how you incorporated each requirement. 

Final meets California Art Standards: 

• 1.8 Analyze the works of a well-known artist as to the art media selected and the effect of that selection on the artist's style.
• 2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view.
• 2.2 Plan and create works of art that reflect complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary color, scale, expressive content, and real versus virtual.
• 2.4 Demonstrate in their own works of art a personal style and an advanced proficiency in communicating an idea, theme, or emotion.
• 2.6 Present a universal concept in a multimedia work of art that demonstrates knowledge of technology skills.
• 3.2 Identify contemporary artists worldwide who have achieved regional, national, or international recognition and discuss ways in which their work reflects, plays a role in, and influences present-day culture. (artist statement question)
• 4.1 Describe the relationship involving the art maker (artist), the making (process), the artwork (product), and the viewer.
• 5.2 Compare and contrast works of art, probing beyond the obvious and identifying psychological content found in the symbols and images.

Spray Paint and dotted landscapes with Seurat

Prep: cut or rip watercolor paper and construction paper into 3x8.5 strips

Cut out or hole punch 2" circles these could be yellow or printed yellow

Discussion: Pointillism: small dots next to each other when looked at from far away become a picture. 

Primary dots next to each other mix with the viewers eye. 

Look at the work Sunday afternoon at the Park by the artist Seurat

What do you see? 

What color did he use most?

Do you see a monkey?

What would you do if you were there? 

ARTIST: Georges Seurat 

(1859-1891)

French Painter

Invented pointillism

Took informal art lessons as a teen

Attended art school in Paris

He studied the relationship between lines and images and the effect light had on color

He wanted to know more about the emotional effect of color

He influenced science with his studies of colors

Project: 

Step 1: paint watercolor paper with blue liquid water color paint

Step 2: on square card stock paper 8.5 x8.5, glue on blue watercolor at the top

Step3: glue on orange construction paper in the middle

Step 4 glue on pink construction paper on the bottom

Step5: spray pink and orange with two to three squirts of lime liquid watercolor in a spritz bottle

Step6: glue on your round pre cut sun shine on the top in the blue 

Step 7: with q-tips add in round flowers in all colors on the pink and orange paper

Step8: with tooth picks add in dark green centers in each flower to finish

Materials:

Pink and orange construction paper 3" x 8.5"

Water color paper 3"x 8.5"

Tooth picks

Q-tips

tempura paint

Blue liquid watercolor

Card stock cut to 8.5"x8.5"

This project was adapted from this website: http://angelaandersonart.blogspot.com/2011/11/fun-splatter-floral-paintings-kids-art.html  Please visit for additional information

Pattern Words with Romero Britto

Discussion: Pattern

Where do we find pattern?

Have we seen any pattern in our art work we have discussed already?

Do you have on pattern today?

When you discuss pattern what subject are you on? 

Why is pattern importnat to art?

Overlap

Placing things on to and behind one another

ARTIST: Romero Britto (1963-      )

was born in Recife, Brazil 

Self-taught at an early age, he painted on surfaces such as newspapers. 

In 1983, he traveled to Paris where he was introduced to the work of Matisse and Picasso. 

He combined influences from cubism with pop, to create a vibrant, iconic style that The New York Times describes, "exudes warmth, optimism and love."

In 1988, Britto moved to Miami and emerged as an international artist.  

He has also illustrated several books published by Simon & Schuster and Rizzoli. 

Britto's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in over 100 countries 

Britto considers the role of an artist to be an agent of positive change. 

He serves as a benefactor, donating time, art and resources to over 250 charitable organizations and several boards such as Best Buddies International, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. 

Project: create the word love from Britto pattern 

Step1: Draw a straight line down on the left hand side 

Step2: draw a line across the bottom

Step3: draw a line up

Step4: draw a line back to the left

Step5: draw a line up to the top

Step6: draw a line over to the top of the first line: L

Step7: on the bottom of the L draw a large circle

Step8: Draw a small circle inside the large circle: O

Step9: Draw a diagonal line behind the letter o

Step10: Draw a line across the bottom

Step11: Draw a diagonal line back up

Step12: draw a line across the top

Step13: Draw a diagonal line down to the center

Step14: a line across the bottom

Step15: A line back up to the top

Step16: A line across the top to meet the first: V

Step17: From behind the V draw a line down

Step18: a long line across the bottom

Step 19: Continue with up, down and across lines helping students to construct an upper case E

Step20: draw a squiggly line across all the letters

Step21: fill in the top part of each letter with a pattern

Step22: fill in the bottom portion of each letter with a pattern

Step23: one pattern should be One heart to honor Britto

Step24: fill in the pattern using only one colors in each pattern in oil pastels

Step25: fill in the remaining portion of each pattern in watercolor

Materials: 

Pencils, Sharpies, Oil pastels, Watercolors. Spray bottles

Warm and Cool color collages with Hundertwasser

Two week project, students create collage paper the first week. 

Discussion: Warm colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they warm?

Where do we see them everyday?

Cool colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they cool?

Where do we see them everyday?

ARTIST: Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1978-2000)

GERMAN

The eccentric and playfully self-advertising Viennese artist 

Early school reports attested to his "exceptional feeling for colour and form". 

Hundertwasser spent three months at the Viennese Art Academy
He found the numerous and adventurous trips he took to Morocco, Tunisia, Nepal, Tokyo and Siberia inspirational for the path he intended to follow. 

Hundertwasser developed an abstract, decorative, two-dimensional and vibrantly colourful, utterly distinctive style distinguished by ornamental spiral and labyrinth forms, circles, meanders and biomorphic shapes.
During the 1960s Friedensreich Hundertwasser was extremely successful

Active in the ecological movement, Hundertwasser was committed to making life livable in a humane environment that was close to nature. 

So versatile and prolific was Hundertwasser that he also designed coins and stamps for Austria, Senegal and the UN from the 1970s. 

In 1981 Hundertwasser was appointed head of the master for painting at the Viennese Art Academy. 

The famous Hundertwasser House in Vienna, begun in 1983, attests to Hunderwasser's skill as an architect.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser died on a cruise ship off New Zealand in 2000.

PROJECT: WEEK 1: Create both a warm and a cool striped paintings 

Step1: on white paper paint a red stripe

Step2: using a craft stick and fork make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step3: make an orange stripe next to your red stripe

Step4: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your orange paint

Step5: repeat steps with yellow and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step6: on white paper paint a blue stripe

using a craft stick and/or fork make stripes or marks in your blue paint

Step7: make an green stripe next to your blue stripe

Step8: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your green paint

Step9: repeat steps with violet and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

Project: WEEK TWO

Step1: cut strips from your cool or warm colors (ARTIST DECISION) and glue them on the card stock

Step2: from the opposite color pages cut circles in three sizes and glue them on top of your stripes 

Step3: repeat until you have three flowers

Step4: add stems

MATERIALS AND TOOLS: 

White construction paper

Warm and cool colored paint

Pop cycle sticks

Forks

Adapted from:http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/10/hundertwasser-art-lesson-for-kids/

Warm Sunsets with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: 

Warm Colors

Positive space

Negative space

Landscapes

Trees

Van Gogh

Van Gogh's:  Landscape at Sunset

ARTIST: Van Gogh

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 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:

Step 1: paint your sunset in warm colors of watercolor

Step2: Using pencils draw three trees across your black paper 

Step3: carefully cut out your trees leaving your land to hold the three trees together

Step4: Paste your black paper on your watercolor sunset

MATERIALS: 

Thick paper

Paint white and black

Paint brushes

Water

Scissors

glue

Primary colors with Mondrain

Discussion

Primary colors

What does primary mean?

What do primary colors do?

Where do colors come from?

Art and Artist

what was the artist trying to say by using only line and primary colors?

ARTIST: Piet  Mondrian

1872 – 1944),

He was a Dutch painter.

He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group

He evolved a form that consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.[1]

he termed his artwork Neo-Plasticism

In his most famous works: The black lines are the flattest elements, with the least amount of depth. 

The colored forms have the most obvious brush strokes, all running in one direction. Most interesting, however, are the white forms, which clearly have been painted in layers, using brush strokes running in different directions. 

This generates a greater sense of depth in the white forms, as though they are overwhelming the lines and the colors, which indeed they were.

PREPARATION: cut strips of black lines in short and long lengths. 

Project: Collage/painting inspired by Mondrian

Step1: using pre-cut black lines glue in grid like Mondrians

Step2: add as many or as few as you like

TO PREVENT COLOR MIXING: hand out plates of red paint, yellow paint and blue paint with brushes. do not put all three colors on one plate. 

Step3: in one small square add in the color red

Step4: in one small square add in color blue

step5: in one small square add in color yellow

Step6: make artist decisions about adding more square of colors and/or more black lines

MATERIALS: 

Pre-cut black lines

Tempura paint in red blue and yellow

glue sticks 

Scissors

Discussion: line 

shape, circles

still life

horizontal 

vertical

Artist: Cezanne

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

PREPARATION: precut apple circles in shades of green and yellow and strips of red lines in advance. 

Project: collage apple shape still life on line picnic blanket

Step1: one a sheet of white card stock, students will place three line of red horizontal

step2: one a sheet of white card stock, students will place three line of red vertical

Step3: glue in three circles in different apple shades pink, yellow, lime green on top of your picnic paper

Step4: using a brown crayon, add the stem of each apple on top.

Materials: 

half sheet white card stock

1” cut red lines

Glue sticks

circles in shades of green and yellow

brown crayon