Horizonless Landscape with Wayne Thiebaud

three hour class

Discuss landscapes

Practice: create three practice pages of washes and techniques that will be used in a later project.

horizon line,

Foreground, middle ground, background, perspective

Touch on these important art topics that will greatly enhance this final piece

         Line, shape, contour drawing pattern, warm color, complementary colors purple and yellow, blue and orange

PRACTICE: WATERCOLOR: Use practice papers in upcoming watercolor collage opportunities.

Practice and discuss many watercolor techniques

Wet-on-Dry watercolor

wet on wet watercolor

graded washes

lifting out

Dropping in color

adding white with oil pastels

Tour of the museum play ISPY to find all landscapes.

Look at the artwork Mr. Theibaud’s River Intersection

What do you notice first? Color? Shape? Line? Pattern?

What is this painting of?

Is it a landscape?

What is missing from a traditional landscape?

What perspective is this from? ant, airplane?

What colors do you notice?

where have you seen ideas like this before?

Take a moment to sketch anything you want to remember about this piece. 

Back in the classroom

Stretch and talk more about initial impressions

PROJECT: Create a watercolor landscape using the many ideas we have discussed

contour drawing with pencil

(REMEMBER TO DRAW LIKE A COLORING BOOK you will fill in with color after)

Step1: using curved line draw a line from the top of the page to the bottom

Step2: using straight line draw a line beside but not touching the first

Step3: draw a half circle along either side

Step4: draw in three horizontal lines from the vertical line to the sides 

Step5: draw in two diagonal lines on the opposite side

Step6: draw in one thick line from the straight line to the side 

Step7: draw in circles that get smaller from the foreground to the background

Step8: draw in patterns or rows of things in one of your square patches

Step9: pick a diagonal pattern and add in stripes

Step10: add in any additional information that you enjoyed from the original piece

Fill in with watercolor: remember some of the techniques you explored earlier

Step1: fill in your washes of color first (remember colors and techniques)

step2: Fill in your piece with color 

Step3: decide if you want to glue on any of your earlier practices pages as part of your final piece.

MATERIALS:

watercolors and Several watercolor papers for each student

pencils

glue

Wet and Dry Watercolor Balance with Paul Jenkins

DISCUSSION: What is balance?

Do you ever spin around in a circle and then try to stand up?

Have you ever pulled on a rope with a friend..as long as your both 

                      pulling it is a fun game

what happens if your friend lets go?

Balance the same or equal on two sides

Show Paul Jenkins symmetrical ex: what do you see?

if we folded it in half would it be the same on both sides?

how did he make this

what colors do you see?

did he mix colors?

Show Paul Jenkins asymmetrical example: what do you see in this picture?

if we folded this pa[er in half would it be the same on both sides?

how did he make this painting

what colors does he show in this work

What do you think about the white in his work? Is it as important as the color?

ARTIST: Paul Jenkins

(1923-    )

American Painter

Born in Kansas City

Jenkins was raised near Youngstown, Ohio. 

Drawn to New York, he became a student of Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League

Ultimately became associated with the Abstract Expressionists

The paintings of Paul Jenkins have come to represent the spirit, vitality, and invention of postWorld War II American abstraction. 

Jenkins's fame much identified with the process of controlled paint-pouring and canvas manipulation 

He is also known for gem-like veils of transparent and translucent color which have characterized his work since the late 1950s.

He was inspired in part by the "cataclysmic challenge of Pollock and the total metaphysical consumption of Mark Toby." 

An ongoing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy and the study of the I Ching.

Jenkins was celebrated as a cornerstone of Post Painterly Abstraction (umbrella term applied by Clement Greenberg to describe the post-Abstract Expressionist approach to painting characterized by "color fields." )

PROJECT: Create balances watercolor work using blue tape

Step1: apply your two pieces of blue tape remembering that will remain white

Step2: on one side of your artwork paint liquid watercolor on dray paper

Step3: On the opposite side> Wet your paper first to and then apply color and see the results

Step4: do not put in morw then two colors on either side as your work will turn brown

Step5: turn in your finished Jenkins inspired watercolor

MATERIALS: 

Watercolor Paper

Blue tape

Liquid watercolors in primary and secondary colors

water

Brushes

additional student examples:

Wet watercolor flowers with Raoul Dufy

Discussion: 

Line 

Shape

watercolor techniques

Still life

Artist: Raoul Dufy

(3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) 

He was a French Fauvist painter. 

He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. 

He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. 

He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, a theatrical set-dresser, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces

He worked with Matisse and was influenced by Cezanne

Examples of his work below

project is painting water colors in the wet on wet method to create loose images of flowers

step 1: take a clean brush and dip in the water and wet the entire surface of the paper
step 2: take different colors of the water color and dab small amounts of the color to allow the paint to bleed on the surface.  Proceed with this step till you get the desired effect.
step 3: allow to dry or take a hair dryer and dry the entire surface – the surface can be a bit damp, but not  wet
step 4: take the bamboo skewer and draw lines in black ink or watercolor on the surface creating the outlines of the flowers

Step 5: (optional) add a background color

MATERIALS:
8 x 10 in. water color paper
water color paint

brushes and cup for water
one skewer or toothpick
black India ink or watercolor
hair dryer (optional)

Jim Dine WATERCOLOR Hearts

Kindergarten and First Grade

DISCUSSION: WATERCOLOR Techniques
Watercolors come in liquid form and cake form:
This is probably what you are used to using at home
The small ovals of Colors are called cakes
Professional watercolor artists use tubes of watercolors that they
place in a covered palette. They dry up and can be wet again and again
We are using liquid watercolors today
The come in bottles and they are very thin like water but
the colors are very vibrant
There are several important watercolor techniques and tricks that artists use.
Wet on dry watercolors means to have wet watercolors and paint onto dry
paper. This technique is easy to control the paint only goes where
you paint it.
Wet on Wet: is to paint wet watercolors on wet paper
This is less controlled and more dramatic
Wash: this is one color of watercolors applied in the wet on wet technique

ARTIST:
Jim Dine
born June 16, 1935
American pop artist.
He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University
He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings.
Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world.
In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.
This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America
Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

for more information about Jim Dine please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine

PROJECT: Create Dine like hearts in both types of watercolors
Step1: Draw a heart
Step2: outline the heart in black oil pastels or Sharpie
Step3: using clear water wet the INSIDE of the heart
Step4: using all colors of liquid water colors fill in your hearts like Jim Dine
Step5: using wet on dry technique paint the background of your heart using one color you have not yet used
Step6: turn in your piece and clean your space

MATERIALS:
Liquid watercolors in all colors
Brushes
Water
Large watercolor paper
Oil Pastels or Sharpies

PROJECT ADDITIONS/ALTERNATIVES:

You could incorporate warm and cool color discussion into this project by having the heart

be in warm or cool and the background be the opposite

You could incorporate Symmetry into this project by cutting symmetrical hearts to watercolor and pasting them into a washed background.