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!!!

Shape with Rothko

Discussion: shape

What is a shape

How are they made? 

What are they used for? 

Did they help you get to school today? 

Let’s name some shapes

Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970)

He was a Russian-American painter.

Rothko believed that his art could free the unconscious energies previously liberated by mythological images, symbols, and rituals. 

He considered himself a "mythmaker," and proclaimed "the exhilarated tragic experience, is for me the only source of art."

In 1949, Rothko became fascinated by Matisse’s Red Studio, acquired by the Museum of Modern Art that year. He later credited it as a key source of inspiration for his later abstract paintings.

The year 1946 saw the creation of Rothko’s transitional "multiform" paintings. 

The term "multiform" has been applied by art critics; this word was never used by Rothko himself, yet it is an accurate description of these paintings. 

He employed natural substances such as egg and glue, as well as artificial materials including acrylic resins, phenol formaldehyde, modified alkyd, and others.[9] 

One of his objectives was to make the various layers of the painting dry quickly, without mixing of colors, such that he could soon create new layers on top of the earlier ones.

He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".

Project: 

Step 1: One tag board, draw a red square with oil pastels

Step 2: Above the square draw a blue rectangle

Step3: paint the rest yellow

MATERIALS: 

Liquid watercolor, yellow

Red and blue oil pastel

White tag board. 

Warm and Cool 3-D Watercolor Ships with Paul Klee

Upon Arrival: 

Students create 1/2 cool page of water color and salt

Students create whole warm page of red and oranges

Discussion: 

Balcutha

What is it? 

What does it look like? 

What are you expected to learn there? 

Why are you studying the Balcutha? 

Warm and cool colors

Warm colors make us? 

Cool Colors Make us? 

How would you draw this ship? 

Show many examples leading up to Paul Klee's Adventurers Ship

See the ship as shapes

What lines do you see?

What shapes do you see?

Geometric? Organic?

ARTIST: Paul Klee 

(1879 – 1940) 

Swiss painter of German nationality.

His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. 

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it. 

His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes child-like perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality. 

He and his friend, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art and architecture.

PROJECT: 

Step 1: using a pencil draw out the balcutha in shape and line, draw lightly

Step2: using small sharpie go over all of the outside line in black

Step3: add all details, windows, stripes, etc. 

Step3: using colored pencils add in the color on the ship

Step4: cut out your ship

Step 5: work with students to staple the ship onto the warm paper allowing it to 3-d off the page slightly

Step6: add your blue water on top of the ship to create the final 3-D illusion. 

Materials: 

Glue

Watercolor paper 1and 1/2 for each student

Liquid water color

Large brushes

Salt

Spray bottle

Colored pencils

Scissors

Thank you to Ms. Little for this fun art project for fourth grade students in California!!!

Discussion: Monochromatic? What does this big word mean?

It means one color, That seems boring? 

What would a one color painting look like? 

Show examples, Show Matisse’s Red Studio

How would this room feel to be inside? 

What would you touch if you were there?

Would the room feel BIG or small? 

What does the color red make us feel? 

Would you feel like that if you were there?

Does Matisse have any items in color here? Why? 

ARTIST: Henri Matisse 1869-1954
French Painter,
Studied law until he was 21

His Mother gave him a paint box after surgery and he discovered painting

He attended drawing classes before work; at lunch he would paint. After work he would paint till night fell. 

In 1891 set off for Paris to study

Matisse’s studies ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. 

Matisse’s 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. 

Matisse continued to paint even after he was ill, 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: Create your favorite room in monochromatic

Step1: Pick a room in your house that is your favorite

Step2: use a white oil pastel and draw several items from your fav. Room

Step3: if one or more items in your room have an important color, fill it in

Step4: Paint your whole paper with red paint to reveal your room

MATERIALS: 

Oil pastels 

red liquid water color

watercolor paper

Texture Tide Pools with Ted Lawson

TWO WEEK PROJECT: 

Recap:

Van Gogh: Warm Colors

Victor Vasarely: Line

Form: Claes Oldenburg

Fawazo:  Tint

Andy Warhol: pattern

Discussion: Texture 

DISCUSSION:

Texture? What is it?

What does your hair feel like?  What does the bottom of your shoe feel like?

What do your pants feel like?  What does tree bark feel like?

Some things are rough like tree bark and the bottom of our shoes

Some things are soft like kittens and our hair

Can we see texture?   Can you smell texture?

Visual Texture, tactile texture. 

Look and talk about Ted Lawson’s Tide pool work. 

Artist:

Ted Lawson

Ted’s initial art training came during high school in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Ted always remained interested in art but a tour in the US Navy and a career in engineering 

delayed his early progress. 

Ted has since studied with nationally known instructors Gerald Brommer, Tony Couch and Fred Graff and continues training and development in watercolor composition and design.

Ted works in watercolors and acrylics primarily in a representational style 

He experiments with non objective and abstract styles. 

He leaves it up to the viewer to use his or her own intellect and experiences to find the underlying meanings. 

Ted likes to create art using "the things that people see and use everyday" as his inspiration. 

His ideas involving common everyday scenes or objects spring from his extensive foreign and domestic travels as well as glimpses of New York City. 

Ted continuously strives to accomplish the goal of creating something that is entertaining and thought provoking for other people to look at and enjoy.

Ted resides in Canton, Ohio with his wife Patricia, a high school Spanish teacher. 

for more information, please visit: http://www.art-101-gallery.com/TedLawson.html PROJECT

WEEK !: PROJECT: Create water and texture rubbing rocks

PREPARATION: set up the room in stations Watercolor station, salt station and texture stations

Step1: Using a new piece of construction paper for each rock. Walk around each rubbing station, hold construction paper over texture mat and color with a grey, black or white crayon. Leave your rock at each station

Step2: at water color station, spray watercolor paper with water, use large brush to add in blue water

Step3: take watercolor paper to salt station and add salt on top of your water

MATERIALS: 

Liquid watercolors

Salt

Texture rubbings of all sorts (Sand Paper, etc.)

Construction paper

WEEK 2: Texture creatures

Step1: Glue Texture rocks around your tide pools

Step2: Cut rubber bands and glue (elmers)  them to the paper around the shape of a sea urchin

Step3: Cut a oval out of laminate or smooth plastic (Plastic plate in white) and draw lines around him like a muscle

Step4: cut and color with oil pastels a bright star fish out of sand paper

MATERIALS: 

Sand Paper cut into star shape

Rocks from week 1

pastic in clear or white

black sharpies

Oil pastels

Glue sticks

Elmers glue

Tinted Cool Colors and Warm Tree drops with FawazO

DISCUSSION: warm and cool colors

What are they 

Why are the warm or cool?

How do we make colors lighter?

How do we make colors darker?

Whay would we make colors darker and lighter?

Look at the artwork: Tree of Life; http://fawazo.com/

Discuss the artwork

What do you see

How did he make the roots

How did he make the leaves

Does it look like a tree?

ARTIST: Fawaz AlOlaiwat Aka FawazO, Born September 4th, 1977-  

FawazO lived all his life in Bahrain, A small island in the heart of the Arabian Gulf. 

FawazO is an artist born in color, in culture, in a home for inspirations. 

Rooted to a family of artists, he has spiraled and stemmed, sprouting into the sun.

As an award winning artist FawazO has attracted an international appeal. He displays several paintings in galleries abroad (including Denmark and Dubai).  

Acclaimed, appreciated, and still humble, FawazO expresses suppression, love, romance, peace, and the will to be free in his digital creations.  

He tells his art in layers, in textures, in meaningful colors. 

He forms his art to tell a story, to spark imagination, to awaken curiosity, to ignite passion. 

Most recent in his portfolio is a wide collection of Corporate Identities, and Brand Developments.  

His love for creativity has also inspired him to produce Corporate Art, or as the Artist labels it “BrandArt”.  

PROJECT: Create a drip tree using stencil and warm liquid watercolors

Step1: place the stencil over your paper making sure circle is centered; tape it in place

Step2: using droppers or q-tips: drop warm colored watercolors inside the stencil until you are filled with warm drops or dots

Step3: remove stencil

Step4: using oil pastel: draw a line along the foreground of the page living 2 inches below for roots

Step5: using lines draw in tree trunk and roots below surface; draw them as singular lines and dots on roots like the artist

Step6: add white to green and blue tempura paint

Step7: paint in sky by tree do not touch the tree just paint around the circle

Step8: paint in ground below purple line light green

Materials: 

liquid watercolor

White, blue and green tempura paint

dropper or q-tips

circles stencils

blue tape

Discussion: Pattern, Stripes and stars

To have a pattern with stripes, they must repeat. 

Where do we find stripes? what animals have stripes?

Do tree’s have stripes? where are they?

Horizontal, this word means side to side or across. 

Show Warhol’s work of the stripes tree with stars

What do you think of this piece?

Does it remind you of anything?

Where do we find stars?

look at this print of Warhol's:

http://www.bandagedear.com/featured-product/christmas-tree-ca-1950-1955-multi-by-andy-warhol

Andy Warhol

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), 

Born Andrew Warhola 

An American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker 

leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. 

After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, 

During this time he created holiday prints for Tiffany's

Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter

He was also filmmaker, record producer, author, 

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.

He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." 

The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. 

Died during routine gallbladder surgery in 1987

PROJECT

For this project we are only going to paint STRIPES with our color:

Step1: using your paint brush, paint one stripe on the bottom of your page

Step 2: paint the next color on top of the first but make it slightly smaller on both sides

Step3: paint the next color on top of the first but make it slightly smaller on both sides

step 4; paint the next color on top of the first but make it slightly smaller on both sides

Step5: paint the last stripe at the very top, this stripe should be the smallest

Step6: add stars to each of your stripes

Step7: add one star on top

MATERIALS: 

Liquid watercolor in five colors: red, blue, pink, green and purple

Paint brushes

metallic sticker stars