Negative and positive Space with Mathilda Roussel

Discussion

Positive space and Negative

What is positive space? 

When we cut something out positive is the object

Negative is the hole

In a sculpture positive space is the materials

Negative space is the holes in and around the work

Space is also the distance between points and planes in an artwork

Show the artwork of the pillow and hands from the artist: 

What do you think of this piece? 

What is positive

What is negative

What is the work made from? 

ARTIST: Mathilde Roussel (Ma-tit   Rou-sel) 

French artist based in Paris. 

Her work is a sensible and symbolic research about the nature of physical life. 

She is interested in the cyclic metamorphoses that transform organic matter, whether vegetable, animal or human. 

Roussel interrogates the ways in which time weighs on our body, leaving its traces as an imprint and thus creating an invisible archive of our emotions, a mute history of our existence. 

She uses a diversity of materials from paper to fabric, from rubber to graphite. 

Her ephemeral sculptures she uses organic matter such as wheat grass, pollen, sap or milk. Her work becomes a mapping of the body, an anatomy of the time and space inhabited by our fragile presence in the world.

PROJECT: 

Step1: Fill your paper with different colored tissue paper. Glue them down

Layer and overlap to show change in color

Step2: Using a second paper cut out a shape, any shape and throw the shape away

Keep the hole

Step3: Layer the hole on top of the paper with the tissue. Glue it top top

Step4: crop the sides if needed. 

MATERIALS
Tissue

Two pieces of card stock the same size

Scissors

Glue

Geometric Tissue Cityscapes with Paul Klee

DISCUSSION: Geometric shape 

 what are geometric shapes?

  where do we find them?

    in math class?

   Let’s name some and draw them...

Where do you hear that word geometric?

  Math class

  Geometry

City Scape: What is it? 

Look at Paul Klee’s Castle and the Sun

  What are his Buildings made up of?

  What Colors do you see?

  Are there any Organic shapes?

 Foreground: Front of the picture; bottom of your paper

 Middle ground: middle of your picture; horizon line in a Landscape; middle of your paper

 Background: The back of your picture; above the horizon line; the TOP of your paper

  

Overlapping: one object being on top of another

   The Buildings in the foreground will have no overlapping

   The buildings in the middle ground will be hidden slightly behind

    the foreground buildings

   The buildings in the background will be hidden behind the foreground and 

    middle ground buildings

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.

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

Project: 

Create Paul Klee’s city scape using Tissue paper and geometric shapes

Step1: glue on square and rectangles to form a city scape in color

Step2: build up one of the side like Klee

Step3: add black lines in sharpie add squares and rectangles and triangles for roofs

Step4: continue adding in in black lines until the space is full

Step5: Add in one circle with tissue paper

Step6: add black line for a circle on the sun

MATERIALS: 

Tissue paper in all colors cut to squares

Glue sticks

Black Sharpie

Scissors

Folk Art Tissue Birds with Maud Lewis and Grandma Moses

DISCUSSION: folk Art: 

what is folk art? art without formal training

are we folk artists? 

Look at our two examples of folk art

how are they the same?

how are they different?

Maud lewis 

Maud Lewis  1903-1970

Nova Scotia, Canada

Born in Ohio

She suffered from disabilities as a result of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

lived most of her life in poverty with her husband in Marshalltown. 

he began her artistic career by hand-drawing Christmas cards. 

These proved popular with her husband's customers as he sold fish door to door and encouraged her to begin painting. 

She used bright colors in her paintings and subjects were often of oxen teams, horses, or cats. 

All of her paintings are of outdoor scenes. 

Her house was one-room with a sleeping loft and is now located in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax.

Most of Maud Lewis' paintings are quite small - often no larger than eight by ten inches

She is known to have done at least three paintings 16 inches by 20 inches. 

Her technique consisted of first drawing an outline and then applying paint directly out of the tube. 

She never mixed colors.

She painted on everything in the home as she often did not have enough money to buy supplies
for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Lewis

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), 

better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. 

She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age

She did not start painting until she was 7-0

Began painting to give as gifts she said it was easier then cooking a present.

sold her paintings for $2 and $3 dollars.

Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses," she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses," yet the press eagerly dubbed her "Grandma Moses," which stuck." [1] 

LIFE magazine celebrated her 100th birthday by featuring her on its September 19, 1960 cover.

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

PROJECT: create folk art inspired bird drawing with tissue paper

Step1: brush onto your page a mixture of glue and water

Step2: place in pre-cut squares of all different tissue paper

slightly overlapping edges is good but don’t overlap too much

Step3: fill your page with the tissue

Step4: using squeeze bottle squeeze in a bird on top of your tissue

circle for the head

oval for the body

half circles for wings

rectangle for tail feather

triangle for the beak

small circle for the eye

add a heart in the middle if you like.

MATERIALS: tissue, water and glue mixture, black glue mixture in squirt bottle.

Weaving Tissue and found objects with Ellen Kochansky

K-1-2 Grades

DISCUSSION: Look at several examples of Ellen Kochansky's  work

Weaving? How is weaving art? 

What is weaving? 

Art A: how would this art feel? 

Is there a pattern? 

What is the pattern of this weave? 

Why did the artist name this piece riverdance? Nancy Curry

How to Weave: Over under, over under

Under over, under over

ARTIST: Ellen Kochansky

American textile designer

owns and designs for EKO. 

From rural South Carolina, 

she has made quilts and textile art for over 30 years. 

She has served as an American Canvas panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and as a trustee of the American Crafts Council. 

Her works are in many public and private institutions including the Museum of Art + Design in NY, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.

PREPARATION: Create looms in advance (one per student):

Step 1: cutting 12x18 black construction paper down to 12x12 square

Step 2: Gently bend them and cut strips one inch from top bottom and sides.  

MATERIALS: 

Looms

Chenille stems

Glue

Found objects

Yarn

Fabric

PROJECT: 

Weaving with Tissue paper

Step 1: grab loom and tissue strips

` Step 2: begin weaving by going over and under stems

Step 3: with you next tissue strip go under over the stems

Step 4: return to over under

Step 5: return to under over

Step 6: embellish the weave using found objects like our artist

Step 7: glitter station

Step 8: glue on yarn 

Step 9: glue on fabric, glitter, beads, pom poms, feathers

 

Warm and cool Landscapes with Monet

DISCUSSION: Warm and Cool Colors
Quickly touch on Color wheel primary and secondary color schemes
separate the color wheel to illustrate warm and cool colors

Pick a landscape piece from Monet with COOL COLORS
How do we feel when we look at the painting
How would it smell if we were there?
What would you touch?
Are we safe?
Pick a landscape piece from Monet with Warm Colors
Same ? as above
ARTIST: MONET (1840-1926)
French Painter
Studied art in Paris
Father of IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionists: attempted to capture a visual impression of a scene
Esp. with the natural light
Monet would paint the same scene over and over in different light of the day

For more on Claude Monet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

LANDSCAPES:
Foreground
Background
Horizon line
Things in the foreground are bigger and more detailed
Things in the background are smaller and less detail
Perspective

PROJECT: two weeks: create a landscape using warm OR cool collage
Step1: Create a horizon line
Step2: Fill in the background with a warm OR cool multi media collage
Step3: Cut Out trees from white paper
Step4: paint birch black lines on each of your trees
Step5: Glue your trees on your paper overlapping your collage work
Step6: add tree shadows in greys
Step 7: Add details like grass in gray

MATERIALS:
Week1: Pencils
Glue
Collage materials of all sorts tissue, magazine, paper
scissors

Week2: scissors
Watercolors
White scrap paper for trees
Brushes
Water
Glue

This lesson plan was inspired by DEEPSPACESPARKLE.com: http://deepspacesparkle.blogspot.com/2009/03/multi-media-winter-birch-trees.html