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!!!

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

Woven Value Seascapes with Si-Chen Yuan

DISCUSSION: 

Artist and the artwork: 


Si-Chan Yuan

BEACH, MONTEREY, CA. 1968-1974, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

seascapes, sand in foreground, water in middle ground, sky in background

linear horizon

wash with texture Burlap pieces to give sand like quality

drawing with pencil

wash in water several blue values

Greyscale

Artist: Si-Chen Yuan (1911-   )

Born in Hangchow, China, Si-Chen Yuan studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Nanking, 

He practiced Western styles and worked in oil paint—as opposed to traditional ink painting. By the time of his graduation, China was in turmoil, caught between nationalist and communist politics. 

For a time, Yuan worked as an artist producing political propaganda for the Nationalist party. But, when the Communist party gained control in 1949, he left China. 

The following year he became a United States citizen. 

Yuan was seduced by Monterey’s dramatic coast and moved there in 1951. 

He married in 1953,  

In addition to portraits of family and friends, Yuan painted a range of subject matter, including still lifes, landscapes, and seascapes, and he experimented with non-representational abstraction. 

He painted swiftly and energetically, as friends recall, using broad strokes to rapidly render his subjects. 

He delighted in the interplay of color, which he applied thickly. 

For additional information: please visit: www.crockerartmuseum.org/art?page=shop.product_details&product_id=677&flypage=flypage_cust.tpl&pop=0

PROJECT: create seascape in color and greyscale to be woven together

Step1: using a pencil draw a seascape: include the sky, water, sand and objects in sand (people, umbrellas, etc)

Step2: draw the same drawing a second time as close to the original as possible

Step3: paint in the first using color

Step4: add texture to the sand by adding salt while it is still wet

Step5: Paint second drawing an values of grey

Step6: once both paintings are complete cut one in strips vertically (be sure that you do not cut all the way through leave 1/4" at the edge to make weaving easier) 

Step7: Cut the second piece horizontally (cut these stripes all the way and place them slightly above your work space in the order in which they should be woven back in).

Step7: weave the two together creating a woven seascape.

MATERIALS: 

watercolor paper 

Liquid watercolor paints

salt

pencils

black and white acrylic paints for grey scale. 3 to 4 values of grey should be enough.