Additive wooden sculpture with Barbara Spring

Lesson Objective 

Work with elements of art: Form, Shape, Color

Work with principles of Art: Balance 

Create a additive wooden sculpture in the style of Barbara Spring

Key Vocabulary: 

Additive: Is the process by which material is shaped and built up to create the desired image.

Achromatic:  Any color that lacks strong chromatic content is said to be unsaturated, achromatic, or near neutral. Pure achromatic colors include black, white and all grays; near neutrals include browns, tans, pastels and darker colors. Near neutrals can be of any hue or lightness.

Color Scheme: color scheme is the choice of colors used in design for a range of media. 

Assemblage: An assemblage is a sculpture constructed from found objects. Typically an assemblage does not disguise the original objects used, rather it either tries to show them in a new light, or forms a figurative sculpture from the collection of shapes.

Materials: 

Variety of wooden sticks

Craft Sticks

Tooth Picks

Coffee Stirrers

Wood chips

Brown craft crinkle

Glue:  white or wood

Focus Artist: 

Barbara Spring

Video for projection presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcmv-3aUys

Project Requirements: 

Create a wooden cake in the style of Barbara spring using additive sculpture and assemblage. 

Assessment: 

Informal: Large group Oral Critique

Formal: Artist Statement

Formal: Grading final sculpture

CA STANDARDS: 

1.1 Identify and use the principles of design to discuss, analyze, and write about visual aspects in the environment and in works of art, including their own. 

1.4 Analyze and describe how the composition of a work of art is affected by the use of a particular principle of design.

2.1 Solve a visual arts problem that involves the effective use of the elements of art and the principles of design.

3.3 Identify and describe trends in the visual arts and discuss how the issues of time, place, and cultural influence are reflected in selected works of art.

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.

4.5 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, group activities to check for understanding

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. 

Advanced art students will be asked to increase the difficulty of their final sculpture They will also be expected incorporate more details and principles into the final project

Scaffolding adaptations: 

Students will revisit Shape, Color and Form from the earlier learning. We will use similar visuals to refresh earlier learning.  Notes on Art history, Key Vocabulary and artists will be taken throughout discussions for added understanding. Creating sketchbook plans and Constructing final sculpture will be demo started in class using guided instruction. 

DIRECT INSTRUCTION:

Art Link: 

Small Group Critique Barbara Spring’s A La Carte 

Describe

Analyze

Interpret

Large Group Critique 

INTRODUCTION: Barbara Spring Video

OBJECTIVE: Create Wooden cake using various wood pieces for structure and decoration

Students will understand new vocabulary as is relates to visual art

Students will discover review the elements of Shape, color and Form. They look at the artwork of Barbara Spring and use additive and assemblage techniques to create cake form with neutral/achromatic color format 

Discussion:

ART HISTORY: Barbara Spring 

Barbara Spring (1916- 2011)  94 years old

An exceptional wood sculptor, 

Barbara Spring's career began in 1935 in her native England 

She studied at the Gravesend School of Art in Kent and the Central School of Art in London. 

Her exhibits in this country span from 1962 to present.

Actively worked at the studio she built in 1972 next to her home in Big Sur. 

"Barbara is Magic.” "She can give an ordinary face so much emotion." says Greg Hawthorne of the Hawthorne Gallery, where much of her work is exhibited. 

She pokes fun at the human frailties of her characters, their pettiness, self-importance and self-doubt

Spring's gentle sense of humor makes them sympathetically engaging. 

Her keen observation of human nature and genius for creating the subtlest nuances are further enhanced by punning titles like "Major Faupar" and "Upton O'Goode".

Watch Video

Key Vocabulary:

Additive: Is the process by which material is shaped and built up to create the desired image.

Achromatic:  Any color that lacks strong chromatic content is said to be unsaturated, achromatic, or near neutral. Pure achromatic colors include black, white and all grays; near neutrals include browns, tans, pastels and darker colors. Near neutrals can be of any hue or lightness.

Color Scheme: color scheme is the choice of colors used in design for a range of media. 

Assemblage: An assemblage is a sculpture constructed from found objects. Typically an assemblage does not disguise the original objects used, rather it either tries to show them in a new light, or forms a figurative sculpture from the collection of shapes.

Teacher Models 

Examples of vocabulary on the board throughout discussion 

Students take notes in their sketchbooks 

Teacher Monitors room throughout discussion

Check for Understanding: 

Monitor room during Pre-assessment in sketchbook

Monitor throughout discussion ensure comprehension and active note taking 

Various Activities Designed to check/enhance student comprehension

Activity: 

Using 24 craft sticks, students build triangle shape for cake base

Using various wood “toppings”

Student decorate the top of the cake using achromatic color palette. 

FINAL PROJECT: 

Rubric Project: Create Wooden cake using various wood pieces for structure and decoration

Students will understand new vocabulary as is relates to visual art

Students will discover review the elements of Shape, color and Form. They look at the artwork of Barbara Spring and use additive and assemblage techniques to create cake form with neutral/achromatic color format 

Students will be assessed on: 

Effort in Class: Studio, Daily Art Link and Discussions 

Additive wood construction precise and cake like. 

Use of a neutral color palette for construction and toppings How sculpture looks from ALL sides

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. 

Warm and Cool Imagination Drawings with Chagall

Discussion: 

Warm and cool colors 

What are warm colors? 

How can they make us feel? 

Excited angry hungry

What are cool colors? 

How do they makes us feel? 

Relax, calm, sad

Imagination: what does it mean to have imagination

Dreams, creative

Artist: Marc Chagall

1887-1985

Russian Born. French painter

Known for his use of colors

Known for his dreamlike images

He used clear colors and geometric forms

Mastered stain glass in his sixties

Project: 

Step1: using a pencil draw a tree in the middle of the paper long ways

Step2: turn the paper

Step3: draw a house square triangle add windows and details

Step4: turn the paper

Step5: draw circles and stars

Step6: turn the paper

Step7: draw a person like they are flying 

Step8: color the objects in using warm colors

Step9: add white oil pastels to any object that you want to be white

Step10: add black to outline objects or add movement

Step11: using liquid watercolor in cool colors

Materials: 

Pencil

Card stock

Oil pastels in warm colors

Liquid watercolors in cool colors

This lesson was adapted from: The Incredible Art Department. Thanks!!!

Organic shape and geometric shape movement figures with Keith Haring

Discussion: 

Organic Shape VS Geometric shape

Geometric shapes: 

Name some....Square, circle, rectangle, 

Can they be solved with MATH: Yes!

Organic Shapes: 

Name Some....Bird, Tree, you and me!!!

Can they be solved with Math??? NO!

Movement: 

How does Haring show movement? 

What color does he use when the figures move

ARTIST: Keith Haring

Born 1958

Age 19 first show

1978 went to school in NY

Created subway drawings on blank ad space

Worked with children

Wanted everyone to be able to have his work

Worked with causes

Died young in 1988

Wanted everyone to make art especially kids

Show Keith Haring’s work

Project: Create a haring like art work with primary colors and shapes

Step1: in pencil: using Geometric shape: Draw  a circle head

Step2: using a square, draw a body

Step 3 using a rectangle draw two arms (show movement)

Step4: using rectangles, draw two legs (show movement) 

Step5: using ovals, draw hands and feet

Step6: Using organic shape, draw around your figure two times

Step7: paint your figure in red

Step8: paint your first organic shape in yellow

Step9: paint your next organic shape in blue

Step10: outline your figure in BLACK

Step11: create at least one set of movement lines 

Materials: 

Brushes

Water

Card stock

Red blue and yellow paint

Black paint

Organic Shape Drawing with Scissors and Matisse

Discussion

Organic Shape? What is organic shape? 

Where do you hear the word organic? 

Where do you find organic shapes? 

Matisse
 Drawing with scissors

He worked very large, we will work smaller

Show his work

What do you think of this piece? Color? Shapes? 

What would you do first if you were inside the artwork? 

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. 

PROJECT: Create a matisse style organic shape composition

Step1: glue one large block of color to your white sheet

Step2: glue a second block of color to your white sheet

Step3: begin to cut organic shapes in all colors and glue them to your paper

Step4: create a composition from your random shapes

Step5: pull the piece together by adding smaller pieces in a pattern

Materials: 

Glue stick

Construction paper

Scissors

Zig Zag Hearts with Bridget Riley

Discussion: Line
What is a line?
 how important do you think it is for art?
 let’s name a few lines: Diagonal, Curved, spiral, think, thick, wavy,etc...

want to see drawn lines on paper begin to move?
 show Bridget Riley’s work, then begin to rotate it. 

Op Art: Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.
Op is short for optical illusion. Thinking we see something that we don’t. 

Artist: Bridget Riley (1931-       ) 
Famous as an early proponent of Op Art, Bridget Riley was born in South London. 
Riley’s artistic education: Goldsmiths college of art from 1949, then at the Royal College from 1952-5. 
Riley exhibited her artwork in a number of group shows at this early stage 1958.
A mental breakdown led Riley away from her studio in the late 1950s. 
Upon her recovery she took up a string of teaching posts. 
It was during this period that Riley honed her personal artistic style.
Played with pointillism
Riley discovered her own method of treating optics in paint.
The first painting rendered in this ground-breaking mode was ‘Kiss’ of 1961. The canvas is a sea of black, divided by an emerging white band which marks the space between two approaching bodies. 
The painting was immediately followed by Riley’s first solo show the following year, which took place at Gallery One in London, which showed her early monochromatic paintings.
Riley also exhibited in the 1965 New York show which first propelled the concept of ‘Op’ art into the media spotlight.
It was not until 1967 that she splashed into color and the optical possibilities
The following year, 1968, saw Riley being awarded the International Prize for Painting. 
She was the first British contemporary painter, and first woman, to receive the prestigious prize.
Commercial demand for Bridget Riley’s artwork peaked in the 1970s, but crumbled the following decade. The 1980s was a rather dark time for the artist as suddenly-and unexpectedly-her work fell out of fashion. 
But she never stopped working and recent years have witnessed a revival in her popularity,Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, hosted their own Riley retrospective in 2008.
A freshly-discovered interest in Riley’s artwork has also been echoed in art market sales. 
In 2008 Sotherby’s London sold Riley’s ‘Chant 2’ of 1967 for over £2.5m.

PROJECT: 
Create an Op Art Piece using Black lines
Step1: using a pencil lightly draw a heart in the center of your paper
Step2: using black sharpie, draw horizontal straight lines to the heart
Step3: When you get to the heart zig zag your lines
Step4: On the other side of your heart go back to straight lines. 
Step5: Continue with the steps until it is complete. 

MATERIALS: 
White paper
Black Pens or sharpies

Recycled Robots with Clayton Bailey

Two Day Project

Discussion: Form 

Sculpture

Robots

Artist: Clayton Bailey (1939-       )

Born 1939- Clayton G. Bailey is born in Antigo, Wisconsin .

1960- Inspired by the abstract expressionist work of Peter Voulkos, he begins to make ripped and torn ceramic forms, and begins a series of unique "pinch pots". 

Bailey receives a B.S. Degree in Art Education in January 1961, and continues in the Graduate Program. Littleton hires him as studio technician, and instructor of a beginning pottery class.

1962- Bailey receives an M.S. Degree in Art and Art Education. 

His students in ceramics are children aged 4 to 18 years old, and adults of all ages; and his classes meet six days of the week. 

The slogan, "Think Ugly" is painted on the wall of the ceramic shop by one of Bailey's students as a rationalization for the ugly sculptures they are making.

Bailey notes that "beauty" is an attribute of the familiar and the comfortable. The artist, he claims, should seek to discover the new and unusual, and should not strive for beauty.

He moves to Northern California in 1968.

1968-The Funk Art Festival is organized by Bailey and Coelho at U.S.D., Vermillion. California artists Roy DeForest, David Gilhooly, David and Maija Zack are the invited guests.

During the next decades, this toy collection will grow to many hundreds of battery operated space and robot toys.

He is a featured ceramic artist, along with Peter Voulkos, Toshiko Takaezu, and Paul Soldner, in the ABC-TV prime time special; "With These Hands; The American Craftsman", sponsored by the S.C. Johnson Co.

Roy DeForest coins the term "Nut Art", saying that "it has to do with phantasmagoric ideas and fantasies. 

Bailey and friends often meet at the Dairyville Cafe or at the Rainbow House in San Francisco 

He is a panelist for the California Arts Commission Fellowship Program.

For additional information: http://www.claytonbailey.com/

Project: using collected cans create a robot sculpture

Step1: find two matching can legs

Step2: find a body

Step3: Find a head

Step4: help students glue them together

AFTER ALLOWING BODY TO DRY OVERNIGHT: 

Step5: add fun hardware for eyes, hair, body parts (switches) shoes etc...

Materials: 

Recycled cans of all sizes

Clear Silicone glue (Home Depot)

Hardware from around the house

This project was inspired by Jane Hastings Robot artwork for more info on Jane visit her on pinterest: http://pinterest.com/jane_hastings/?d