Porportion Portraits with Van Gogh (ASAP)

DISCUSSION: Portraits

What is a portrait?

Have you ever had one made of yourself? Yes, school photo is a portrait

What does a portrait need to be a portrait?

a PERSON!!!

What does a person have on their face?

eyes, nose hair, mouth, ears, eyebrows, cheeks, etc..

What is an ALL STUDENT ART PROJECT (ASAP)?

What do you think that means

have you made on before?

How do you think it gets used?

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 died largely unknown, at the age of 37

sold only one painting while he was alive

for additional information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Project: Students will create a self portrait on a 2x3 piece of paper to be used in the ASAP

Step1: pencil: Draw a circle for your head

Step2: draw two lines for your neck and some shoulders

Step3: Draw in smaller circles for your 2 eyes

Step4: draw in a nose any shape: triangle, line, L

Step5: draw in your mouth: curved line, circle, oval...up to you

Step6: Draw in your hair in your hair color

Step7: ears, eyebrows, any details head band, etc

Step8: fill in using oils pastels

Step9: don't for get to fill in your background color our pattern

MATERIALS:

                oil pastels

2x3 paper

pencils

Flowers with Georgia O'Keeffe (ASAP)

Discussion: 

ARTIST: Georgia O’keeffe 

known for painting large flowers

Show the examples of her work  in the book provided

            What Details do you see in her work

            can you see the veins of the flowers?

            what colors does she use?

            how do you think she created this artwork

            Do you see line? Shape?

ARTIST: Georgia O'Keeffe

         (1887-1986)

         * American abstract painter born in Wisconsin. 

* She attended the Art Institute of Chicago, 

* the Art Student's League in New York, 

* Colombia Teacher's College in New York. She was an art teacher 

* all of the above before she became a full time artist. 

* married A very famous photographer

* She was a leader in the development of the American Modernism Movement. 

* O'Keeffe painted still lifes, massive flowers, the New York at Night series, southwestern landscapes and stark bones found in the desert. 

* In 1939, she was selected as one of the twelve most outstanding women of the past fifty years by the New York World's Fair Committee. 

* Her painting, Sunset-Long Island, was chosen to represent New York in an exhibition of the art of the United States at the World's Fair. 

* In 1985, O'Keeffe was granted the Medal of Arts by President Ronald Reagan

for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

PROJECT:

Fill the small card with a flower and wonderful color

Step 1: You will need oil pastels and a 3x3 card

Step 2: use a pencil to lightly draw your flower. Feel free to have it run off the page like our artist

Step3: Using oil pastel Fill your flower with color and fill in your background. 

             remember to apply weight to the oil pastel so it goes on very thick

             you can blend the colors with your fingers or the blending stick

MATERIALS: 

Cray pas

3x3 card stock

pencils

Shrinky Dink Stars with Ryan McGinness (ASAP)

Discussion: Symbols 

What is a symbol?

What does a heart stand for? 

A lightbulb?

When you see a woman in a dress on a door what is behind the door?

A Star? What does it mean? How does it make us feel to get a star on our test?

What artist’s have used stars in their artwork?

Show any piece of  art from Ryan McGinness

How does he use symbols in his artwork?

        Overlap? how does he overlap in his work?

Why does he layer them?

Is he trying to get us to think about where we see symbols in our daily lives?

ARTIST: 

RYAN MCGINNESS

1971-

American artist, 

living and working in New York City. 

He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia

studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. 

During college, he worked at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant. 

Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, 

McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments.
for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_McGinness

PROJECT 1: Using a star create an interesting statement on shrinky dink paper

Step1: Draw a star on the ROUGH side of the paper

Step2: fill in the star anyway you like, pattern, etcd.

Step3: fill in the background, think of the colors you will use

Step4: label your shrinky dink with your name

MATERIALS: 

Shrinky dinks

Colored pencils