Color Wheel hand prints with Picasso

Discussion: 
Picasso's artwork, Hands with Flowers
What do you see in this drawing
What is the hand doing? 
What colors do you see? 
How many colors? 
How do we make color? 
What is primary color? 
Red Yellow Blue
Why are they special? What do they do? 

They make secondary colors: show a color wheel
Red and blue get too close they make: Purple
Yellow and blue get too close they make green 
Red and yellow get too close they make orange

ARTIST: Pablo Picasso 
(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. 

He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. 
He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 
He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 
During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 
Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

Project: Create printed flowers with hand print
Step1: using a circle stamp print a red center
Step2: using another circle stamp print a blue flower center
Step3: using a third print a yellow flower center
Step4: add orange petals with oil pastels
Step5: add green lines for stems with oil pastels 
Step6: paint and print your hand in purple paint

Materials: 
3 Foam circles and wine corks hot glued together for circle stamp
Red, blue, purple, and yellow tempura paint
orange and green oil pastels 


This lesson was adapted from a wonderful lesson found here: splishsplashsplatterart.blogspot.com.

Texture Printmaking with Wayne Thiebaud

Discussion: 

What is texture? 

How does your hair feel?

How does the bottom of your show feel?

Do they feel the same?

What about tree bark vs. A puppy? 

Art and texture: 

The job of an artist is to create visual texture

A dog might look fluffy and a marble would be shiny and smooth

Printmaking: do you print things at home? 

How do you print them?

How do we print in art: smash pictures or folding pictures in half

There are many techniques in art for printmaking

Mono-print: creating one print from an original piece of art

Look at Wayne Thiebaud’s Gum ball machine painting and discuss how he might have drawn it. 

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 mono-print gum ball machine from sand paper

Step1: on your 4x6 piece of sand paper: with a black oil pastel, draw a large circle on the top half

Step2: Draw a square underneath your circle

Step3: add a half circle on top of your first circle

Step4: add a small circle inside your square

Step5: color in your square and small half circle with the same color

Step6: color in your small circle black to show where the gum balls come out

Step7: fill your machine with different colored gum balls

Step8: once complete, adult uses an iron to melt picture onto your tag board paper

Note: These come out like a print, they might not be exact. 

MATERIALS: 

Oil pastels

Sand paper (light)

Iron

Heavy card stock or tag board paper

I loved the addition of the 25 cents but you might warn young students that it will print backwards. 

Positive and negative space with Andy Warhol

Preparation: Cut stars out of sticky foam sheets and place them on wooden blocks to make stampers. 

Discussion: Positive and negative shapes

Show Warhol’s work of the star tree

What do you think of this piece?

Cut out a star from paper

which is positive and which is negative?
POP art

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, 

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

Using large star cut outs and small star stamps create a negative star shape

Step1: Place the large star in the center of the paper

Step2: using the star stamps, stamp on stars all around the paper

Step3: continue with all the colors

Step4: remove the large star to reveal the negative star shape. 

Materials:

Large star cut outs

Small star stamps

tempura paint 

tag board or card stock

Printmaking Geometric Animals with Roberto Montenegro

PREPARATION: as students arrive for class ask them to brayer one color onto the paper
we used grey for this project

Take a look at: 

Jaguar and the Moon

Oil on canvas, circa 1950s. 

By Roberto Montenegro Crocker Art Museum

DISCUSSION: 

what do you see here?

Is it flat?

Does it appear to be made from paper?

What about the colors the artist chose?

How many colors?

What is the purple shape?

Why did the artist chose purple for the moon?

Why is the jaguars head Black and the rest of it’s body yellow?

What about the shapes and dots around the Jaguar?

ARTIST: Roberto Montenegro Nervo (1885-1968) 

he was a Mexican painter, illustrator, and stage designer.

In 1903, Roberto Montenegro began studying painting in Guadalajara under Felix Bernardelli, a Brazilian-Mexican artist

He lived in Mexico City, and in 1904 began studying architecture. 

It wasn't long after he abandoned it to study at the Academia de San Carlos under many talented artists

Some of his fellow students were Diego Rivera and Francisco Goitia.

An influential promoter of popular arts, Montenegro organized events like the first popular arts festival which was held in 1921. he also published "Pintura Mexicana del Periodo 1800-1860" in the 1930

PROJECT: printmaking animals

Step1: Encourage students to see any animal as a series of shapes. ex: cat: two triangles for ears, circle for a face, oval for a body, rectangles for legs. add pieces of sticky foam to create the shape of any animal

Step2: For the cat: cut out two triangles and place them on the top of the card board piece

Step3: continue adding shapes to your cardboard until you have your whole animal created.

Step4: On a small piece of cardboard create a shape to be added around your animal like a moon or stars

For printing: LIMIT COLOR CHOICES FOR THE STUDENTS. we were able to choose form three red, yellow or blue.

Step3: Print your animal on your prepared paper using one color for the animal and one for the shape

Step5: using a q-tip add dots in and around your animal

Step6: using forks, wine corks and any additional items, add pattern in your background

Materials,

Paper in white black or grey or all three

Paint

Sticky foam rectangles

cardboard base

q-tips

scissors

cork

forks

Under the Sea Murals with Wyland!!!

Discussion: Murals: what are they?

Where might we see a mural in our town?

What can be on a mural

Why would an artist paint a mural

Look at one or more of Wylnads pieces.

What do you see?

How do they make you feel?

Do you want to be a fish?

Do you feel like a fish?

Robert Wyland (born 1956), known simply as Wyland, is an artist best known for painting large, outdoor murals of whales and other ocean life.

Wyland has earned the distinction as one of America’s most unique creative influences, 

he is a leading advocate for marine resource conservation. 

An accomplished painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, and SCUBA diver, 

he has traveled the farthest reaches of the globe for more than twenty-five years, capturing the raw power and beauty of the undersea universe.

PROJECT: 

Step1: first, using foam paint brushes, add one beautiful coral along the bottom of our coral reef mural in Pink, Brown or lime green

Step2: Next add one small fish in blue or orange using the side of your paint brush

Step3: last using a straw, BLOW like milk, and make bubbles. Take your cup to the mural, place it against the mural, and blow the bubbles onto the mural. add them all over to make our mural look like water. Use Dark Blue, Turq and light blue.

MATERIALS: 

Paint and large brushes in Brown Pink and lime green

Paint and small brushes in orange and yellow

Cups with liquid paint in white, light blue and dark blue

Straws

Large blue paper for mural

Printmaking Seahorses with Van Gogh

PREPARATION: add a bit of dish soap to all the paint colors. This will help to get it off the students hands.

DISCUSSION: The Seahorse: what do the students already knew about them?
Interesting facts such as: the male sea horse births the babies rather than the female,
A sea horse's eyes move independently so it can hunt with one eye and watch out for enemies with the other.

Texture comes into play as you might reveal a finger or thumbprint as you work on this project and it is a great way to tie in the artist Van Gogh:

ARTIST: 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

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

Painting with demonstration: Show the Students different techniques using their brushes
Vertical stroke
Horizontal Stroke
Top of the brush
Side of the brush
End of the brush

PRINTMAKING: using hands to make a print today. What does a print mean?
How many prints of our hands could we make?

PROJECT : Brushstroke/hand print Seahorses
Step 1: Students then laid the side of their brushes in yellow then orange or magenta, alternately, and printed three vertical strokes side-by-side for the head.
Step 2: they turned the brush horizontally to create a snout and used the tip of the brush to make two dots for the end of the snout.
Step 3: They continued to make the body, Using their four fingers dipped into the paint they make a print of their hand for the body.
Step 4: The sea horse was finished by making smaller brushstrokes for the curving tail, ending with tiny dots at the end. This technique is very forgiving--it's difficult to make a mistake. Experiment with overlapping strokes for an interesting effect.
Step 5: Dip the tip of the brush in yellow made the perfect big eye.
Step 6: The end of the handle of a brush dipped in green was used to make tiny pupils of the eye, each looking in a different direction.
Step 7: Make seaweed with the one-stroke method, blending yellow and green tempera.
Step 8 if time allows students can paint colorful schools of tropical fish were printed all with a few strokes of the brush.

MATERIALS:
Blue paper
Paint
Water
Soap

Found this great project in the September 2008 issue of Arts and Activities.

Fish printmaking with J. Vincent Scarpace 3-5 grades

The yellow pieces in the above photos are the finished work. The art above is the cardboard with the flexi-cut pieces on top that the students created to print.

DISCUSSION: printmaking: what is it? Why is it so important in art?
Complimentary colors and value are very important in today’s artwork

Look at the artwork of Vincent Scarpace:
What do you think
What is he inspired by?
What do you see first in the work?
What about the colors he used?

J. Vincent Scarpace
1971-
American Artist
Born: Buffalo, New York

His original works are “a personal journey through the use of basic of art elements: line, shape, and color - resulting in an arrival, just past experimentation, at unique works of art which purposely resemble fish.”
He’s followed his passion for the creative process, the pursuit of one’s own creative potential.
J. Vincent knew from an early age exactly what he wanted to do with his life.
encouraged from about age 2 to pursue line, shape, and color, and the creation of art.
J’s mother, an artist in her own right, taught young J. Vincent how to enjoy drawing, painting, and sculpture very early on.
Having worked as an apprentice, production artist, and studio artist .
J. Vincent holds a BS in Education (Art and Education),
after several years of teaching in both private and public schools, he’s now a former teacher, "retired" very early, to his studio to continue his creative journey and drive toward the creation of unique works of abstract fish art. Today, J. Vincent Scarpace’s original works can be found in private and public collections in over 40 countries and in all 50 U.S. States.
He is currently in art galleries, in numerous restaurants, and in many corporate and professional collections. J. resides in College Station, TX

For additional artist information, please visit: http://www.ipaintfish.com/

PROJECT: Create a fish like our artist that we can print
Step1: paint a background for your fish with a brayer using one BRIGHT color Yellow is perfect
Step 2: begin to cut out pieces of your sticky foam and form it out your card board to create a fish. REMEMBER: place next to each other, NOT OVERLAPPING, like a mosaic
Step3: Start with the eye. a large circle or swirl
Step4: create a body frame by cutting out a smile and a frown. place them on top of each other creating an oval shape

Step 5: fill the inside of the fish with shapes
Step6: create gills and fins
Step7: create a mouth
Step8: paint your fish with all different colors REMEMBER to use colors OPPOSITE on color wheel from your background
Step9: print your fish onto your background
Step10: add dots, swirly fins, lines, and other details with a q-tip

MATERIALS:
Flexi cut by the yard available at dick Blick: http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-flexi-cut-printing-plates/

paint brushes Large and small
Cardboard

water
White tag board
Tempura paint

Q-tips

Printmaking fish with J. Vincent Scarpace for K-2

Discussion: printmaking: what is that?
Do you ever print anything on the computer?
How many copies can you make?
can you make a copy of your artwork like a printer? How?
Can we copy our artwork here in class?

J. Vincent Scarpace, Artist.1971-
Born: Buffalo, New York

His original works are “a personal journey through the use of basic of art elements: line, shape, and color - resulting in an arrival, just past experimentation, at unique works of art which purposely resemble fish.”
He’s followed his passion for the creative process, the pursuit of one’s own creative potential.
J. Vincent knew from an early age exactly what he wanted to do with his life.
encouraged from about age 2 to pursue line, shape, and color, and the creation of art.
J’s mother, an artist in her own right, taught young J. Vincent how to enjoy drawing, painting, and sculpture very early on.
Having worked as an apprentice, production artist, and studio artist .
J. Vincent holds a BS in Education (Art and Education),
after several years of teaching in both private and public schools, he’s now a former teacher, "retired" very early, to his studio to continue his creative journey and drive toward the creation of unique works of abstract fish art. Today, J. Vincent Scarpace’s original works can be found in private and public collections in over 40 countries and in all 50 U.S. States.
He is currently in art galleries, in numerous restaurants, and in many corporate and professional collections. J. resides in College Station, TX

for more information, visit his website: http://www.ipaintfish.com/

PROJECT: create a fish print to place on sea background

Step1: using the brayers paint on a background in yellow, set it aside to dry
Step2: on your flat Styrofoam draw a fish.
Start with the oval body and face
Add a tail in the shape of a triangle
Add fins on the top and bottom in the shape of Long triangles
Step3: in an red or blue paint your fish with the brayer
Step4: print your fish onto the background
Step5: add details plants, fins, swirls and dots using a qtip

MATERIALS:
Q tips

larger paper

Styrofoam to go trays, cut out the bottom and the top to have a 5x5" flat piece
Brayer

bright colored paint (neon)