Crumpled Movement Landscape

Lesson Objective: Observe, identify and create movement in a landscape work. 

Key Vocabulary: 

Rhythm: Principle of Art: Art elements (line shape, value, color, texture) recur regularly. Like a dance it will have a flow of objects that will seem to be like the beat of music. 

Movement: Principle of Art: Art Principle:  the path the viewer's eye takes through the artwork, often to a focal area.

Watercolor: is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.

Landscape is ANY picture of the outdoors

Foreground: The part of the picture that is closest to you.

Perspective: things look bigger when they are closer to you.

Middleground: The part of the picture in the middle.

Background is up by the Top of your paper. 

“Rule of Thirds” can be key to creating balance in landscape painting

Opacity: (O-pa-city):the condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness. 

Materials: 

Drawing Supplies: Colored pencils, drawing pencils, oil pastels

Watercolors

Watercolor Paper

One scrap paper per student: crumpled

Focus Artist: Van Gogh

CA Art Standards: 

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

1.5 Analyze the material used by a given artist and describe how its use influences the meaning of the work.

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

2.4 Review and refine observational drawing skills.

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.

4.5 Employ the conventions of art criticism in writing and speaking about works of art.

5.0 CONNECTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, APPLICATIONS: Students apply what they learn in the visual arts across subject areas.

Project Requirements: 

Sketchbook: Practice drawing a crumpled piece of paper on a blank sheet of your sketchbook. 

Turn that drawing of paper into hills on the horizon. 

Draw in the background and foreground. 

Use oil pastels and watercolors to create movement. 

Final Project: Student used blind contour technique to draw crumpled paper mountain range.

Student added interest, rhythm and movement to create landscape using oil pastels and watercolor. 

Student followed landscape procedures to add interest in foreground and background. 

Student used the “rule of three” and color to create emphasis.

Direct Instruction from Power Point: 

Landscape is ANY picture of the outdoors

The Foreground: The part of the picture that is closest to you. 

The foreground is at the bottom of the paper. 

Things in the foreground look big, have more detail and are darker

Perspective: things look bigger when they are closer to you.

The Middleground:

The part of the picture in the middle. 

The middle ground is part way between the foreground and the background.

It is that part of the picture that  is farthest away from you. 

The Background is up by the Top of your paper. 

Things in the background look smaller, less detail and lighter because they are farther away. 

Overlapping is when one thing seems to cover up another thing, even just a little. When this happens, the thing that looks like it is on top is the thing that’s closest to you.

COLOR and Landscape: Warm and cool – Use the power of warm and colors to add even more depth. 

Add a red highlight in the foreground to bring your viewers gaze forward and to heighten the effect. 

Warm in the foreground cools in the background

Color becomes less and less saturated (intense) as it disappears into the distance.

Everything gets lighter in value as the distance from the viewer increases

As the landscape hits the horizon line it is often very similar in value to the sky.

Balance in three’s 

The nature of something’s ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

2. The action of putting things together; formation or construction.

3 is the magic number: Balance

Composition is about variety just “don’t make any two things the same”

The “Rule of Thirds” can be key to creating balance in landscape painting

Divide your page horizontally into 3.

2. Decide whether to have your horizon on the top third or the bottom third 

(the bottom third is always easier to balance, it helps to make the sky look vast and imposing).

3. Split the vertical into thirds.

4. Align areas of focus at the intersection between the lines.

Vincent  van Gogh 

(1853 – 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

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

Rhythm: Principle of Art: Art elements (line shape, value, color, texture) recur regularly. Like a dance it will have a flow of objects that will seem to be like the beat of music. 

Movement: Principle of Art: Art Principle:  the path the viewer's eye takes through the artwork, often to a focal area.

Watercolor: is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.

Opacity: (O-pa-city):the condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness. 

Oil Pastel History: 1947 Picasso Convinced Henri Sennelier, a French manufacturer who specialized in high quality art products, to develop a fine arts version. 

In 1949 Sennelier produced the first oil pastels intended for professionals and experienced artists.

Oil Pastel TECHNIQUE: Press hard, Should look like paint, If your hand hurts, you are doing it right

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 Landscapes with Wayne Thiebaud

DISCUSSION: Pattern

What is pattern? 

Where do you find it?

Have we seen pattern in any artwork we have studied?

Discuss landscapes

Horizon line, foreground, background

Wayne Thiebaud and this landscape:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/03/arts/design/03wayne-grfk.html

Do you see pattern?

How many different patterns

ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud 

(born November 15, 1920) 

He is an American painter 

His most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, 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 farm landscape with pattern

Step1: with black marker, draw an upside down letter v in the top middle of the paper

Step2: draw two straight lines coming off your V

Step3: draw a line across and then make it into a square down

Step4: add another square in the top and add the letter x

Step5: Add a square inside your square and add two XX’s

Step6: add two window to finish your barn

Step7: draw two lines to either side creating a horizon line

Step8: draw one line down from the barn through the foreground

Step9: draw two diagonal lines from either corner of the barn

Step10: Fill the first open space with clouds (make a pattern, not one cloud, 3 clouds)

Step11: fill the opposite side with trees (Pattern, 3 trees)

Step12: fill the other four open spaces with stripes, polka dots, diagonal lines, squiggly lines, etc...

Step 11: Color in all your pattern with color, remember we want a pattern so stick to two or three colors for each pattern

MATERIALS:

black sharpie markers

all colors of markers

Once these were in my computer, I realized they are a great project to discuss perspective. Many of the children were able to achieve perspective in these drawings without even trying. This is another great discussion point for this project. 

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

Warm and Cool Color Seascape with Hans Hoffman

This lesson plan is adapted from and earlier lesson plan: Warm and Cool Colors with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: 

Hans Hoffman and his work Seascape, 1941

This piece is on display at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

What do you see in this piece?

Does it look like a photograph

What colors did the artist choose?

what do you see first when you look at this piece?

Landscape: foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line

line

Warm and cool colors

seascapes

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966)  

German-born American abstract expressionist painter. 

He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 

In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.

Hans Hofmann’s paintings bridged the gap between European Modernism at the beginning of the century and Abstract Expressionism a generation later. 

Hired by the University of California at Berkeley in 1930 to teach a series of courses, his curriculum was the most progressive in the state. 

The artist’s combination of Cubist structure and bright Fauvist color, combined with his “push-pull” theories of color and composition, proved revolutionary. 

In California, his views were a decided departure from the way artists were accustomed to thinking and seeing. 

He came to Berkeley through the invitation of Worth Ryder, a former student. In 1932, 

he moved to New York, teaching at the Art Students League and then at his own school. 

In 1958, he retired from teaching to devote full time to painting. 

His late paintings of overlapping squares confirmed his reputation as an internationally important modernist.

Hofmann's work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships.

His completely abstract works date from the 1940s.

Hofmann believed that abstract art was a way to get at what was really important. 

He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak".

PROJECT: students create a warm and color seascape

Step1: students see their vertical page in three parts:background, middle ground, foreground

Step2: Background: using black oil pastel, create a circle sun and a series of vertical stripes

Step3: middle ground: using black oil pastel: students paint in a series of curves that will become mountains

Step4: foreground: using black oil pastel: students draw in a body of water with sail boats

Step5: Background: students color in the stripes in warm colors, orange and yellow using oil pastels

Step6: students color in the middle ground mountains with cool colors of green values in oil pastels

Step7: student color in the sea in values of blue and their sail boats in reds and oranges in oil pastels

Step8: using watercolors paint over the piece with the right colors for each section.

Materials:

12x18 thick white paper

watercolor paint in primary, secondary

oil pastels

black oil pastels

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