Mixed Media Collage Final Project

Mixed Media Collage Reproduction
• Must create a reproduction of work by any famous artist. 

• Minimum 12” X 18” 

Must incorporate: 

Blind contour

Create depth and/or perspective

Shading and value to create form:

USE ONE: Stippling, scumbling, hatching, cross hatching, etc. 

Tessellation OR Op art reference

Pop Art reference

One of the following: Oval action figure, gestural figure OR portrait

Visual and/or tactile texture

Color, emotion, mood

Newspaper and/or magazine 

Paint (watercolor or acrylic) 

Oil Pastel

Graphite pencil drawing

Pen and ink (sharpie OR black ink pen)

• Required: Please complete the artist statement and final rubric. Blue tape both on the back.
• Required: Title of work: incorporate original artist’s name into your title. 
• One day to find your fine art inspiration
• Four days of studio time, three days of independent work. 
• Due with presentation, including: why you chose the artwork and how you incorporated each requirement. 

Final meets California Art Standards: 

• 1.8 Analyze the works of a well-known artist as to the art media selected and the effect of that selection on the artist's style.
• 2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view.
• 2.2 Plan and create works of art that reflect complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary color, scale, expressive content, and real versus virtual.
• 2.4 Demonstrate in their own works of art a personal style and an advanced proficiency in communicating an idea, theme, or emotion.
• 2.6 Present a universal concept in a multimedia work of art that demonstrates knowledge of technology skills.
• 3.2 Identify contemporary artists worldwide who have achieved regional, national, or international recognition and discuss ways in which their work reflects, plays a role in, and influences present-day culture. (artist statement question)
• 4.1 Describe the relationship involving the art maker (artist), the making (process), the artwork (product), and the viewer.
• 5.2 Compare and contrast works of art, probing beyond the obvious and identifying psychological content found in the symbols and images.

Crumpled Movement Landscape

Lesson Objective: Observe, identify and create movement in a landscape work. 

Key Vocabulary: 

Rhythm: Principle of Art: Art elements (line shape, value, color, texture) recur regularly. Like a dance it will have a flow of objects that will seem to be like the beat of music. 

Movement: Principle of Art: Art Principle:  the path the viewer's eye takes through the artwork, often to a focal area.

Watercolor: is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.

Landscape is ANY picture of the outdoors

Foreground: The part of the picture that is closest to you.

Perspective: things look bigger when they are closer to you.

Middleground: The part of the picture in the middle.

Background is up by the Top of your paper. 

“Rule of Thirds” can be key to creating balance in landscape painting

Opacity: (O-pa-city):the condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness. 

Materials: 

Drawing Supplies: Colored pencils, drawing pencils, oil pastels

Watercolors

Watercolor Paper

One scrap paper per student: crumpled

Focus Artist: Van Gogh

CA Art Standards: 

1.4 Analyze and describe how the composition of a work of art is affected by the use of a particular principle of design.

1.5 Analyze the material used by a given artist and describe how its use influences the meaning of the work.

2.1 Solve a visual arts problem that involves the effective use of the elements of art and the principles of design.

2.4 Review and refine observational drawing skills.

3.3 Identify and describe trends in the visual arts and discuss how the issues of time, place, and cultural influence are reflected in selected works of art.

4.5 Employ the conventions of art criticism in writing and speaking about works of art.

5.0 CONNECTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, APPLICATIONS: Students apply what they learn in the visual arts across subject areas.

Project Requirements: 

Sketchbook: Practice drawing a crumpled piece of paper on a blank sheet of your sketchbook. 

Turn that drawing of paper into hills on the horizon. 

Draw in the background and foreground. 

Use oil pastels and watercolors to create movement. 

Final Project: Student used blind contour technique to draw crumpled paper mountain range.

Student added interest, rhythm and movement to create landscape using oil pastels and watercolor. 

Student followed landscape procedures to add interest in foreground and background. 

Student used the “rule of three” and color to create emphasis.

Direct Instruction from Power Point: 

Landscape is ANY picture of the outdoors

The Foreground: The part of the picture that is closest to you. 

The foreground is at the bottom of the paper. 

Things in the foreground look big, have more detail and are darker

Perspective: things look bigger when they are closer to you.

The Middleground:

The part of the picture in the middle. 

The middle ground is part way between the foreground and the background.

It is that part of the picture that  is farthest away from you. 

The Background is up by the Top of your paper. 

Things in the background look smaller, less detail and lighter because they are farther away. 

Overlapping is when one thing seems to cover up another thing, even just a little. When this happens, the thing that looks like it is on top is the thing that’s closest to you.

COLOR and Landscape: Warm and cool – Use the power of warm and colors to add even more depth. 

Add a red highlight in the foreground to bring your viewers gaze forward and to heighten the effect. 

Warm in the foreground cools in the background

Color becomes less and less saturated (intense) as it disappears into the distance.

Everything gets lighter in value as the distance from the viewer increases

As the landscape hits the horizon line it is often very similar in value to the sky.

Balance in three’s 

The nature of something’s ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

2. The action of putting things together; formation or construction.

3 is the magic number: Balance

Composition is about variety just “don’t make any two things the same”

The “Rule of Thirds” can be key to creating balance in landscape painting

Divide your page horizontally into 3.

2. Decide whether to have your horizon on the top third or the bottom third 

(the bottom third is always easier to balance, it helps to make the sky look vast and imposing).

3. Split the vertical into thirds.

4. Align areas of focus at the intersection between the lines.

Vincent  van Gogh 

(1853 – 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

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

Rhythm: Principle of Art: Art elements (line shape, value, color, texture) recur regularly. Like a dance it will have a flow of objects that will seem to be like the beat of music. 

Movement: Principle of Art: Art Principle:  the path the viewer's eye takes through the artwork, often to a focal area.

Watercolor: is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.

Opacity: (O-pa-city):the condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness. 

Oil Pastel History: 1947 Picasso Convinced Henri Sennelier, a French manufacturer who specialized in high quality art products, to develop a fine arts version. 

In 1949 Sennelier produced the first oil pastels intended for professionals and experienced artists.

Oil Pastel TECHNIQUE: Press hard, Should look like paint, If your hand hurts, you are doing it right

Texture and Patten POPsicles with Andy Warhol

Discussion: 

Pattern

What is it? abababababab

Where do you see it? Clothing, wallpaper, etc.

What do you have to have to make one? Repetition

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

Discuss Andy Warhol and his use of repetition in his four part celebrity POP art portraits

ARTIST: 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: Create POPsicle Pop Artwork using texture and pattern

Step1: on 12x18 piece of Tag Board or card stock: Draw one line across horizontal center

Draw one line down Vertical center

Step2: (multitude of ways to add color here, we had just studied the color wheel and value)

Paint one primary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries

Paint one secondary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries

Paint one rectangle with any color and white: add texture with POPsicle stick

Paint one rectangle with any color and black: add texture with POPsicle stick

Step3: while that dries: Give students Tag board or card stock cut down to 4x6 pieces

Step4: ask students to create a different pattern on each

Students with use oils pastels for dots or stripes and finish back ground in watercolor

Step5: Cut these small pattern papers into rounded POPsicle shapes

Step6: Glue POPsicle stick to the back of each

Step7: Glue four new POPsicles into each of the large painted rectangles

Materials:

Oil pastels

Tempura paint

Watercolor

Tag board 12x18

Tag board 8x12

Popsicle sticks

Pattern Words with Romero Britto

Discussion: Pattern

Where do we find pattern?

Have we seen any pattern in our art work we have discussed already?

Do you have on pattern today?

When you discuss pattern what subject are you on? 

Why is pattern importnat to art?

Overlap

Placing things on to and behind one another

ARTIST: Romero Britto (1963-      )

was born in Recife, Brazil 

Self-taught at an early age, he painted on surfaces such as newspapers. 

In 1983, he traveled to Paris where he was introduced to the work of Matisse and Picasso. 

He combined influences from cubism with pop, to create a vibrant, iconic style that The New York Times describes, "exudes warmth, optimism and love."

In 1988, Britto moved to Miami and emerged as an international artist.  

He has also illustrated several books published by Simon & Schuster and Rizzoli. 

Britto's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in over 100 countries 

Britto considers the role of an artist to be an agent of positive change. 

He serves as a benefactor, donating time, art and resources to over 250 charitable organizations and several boards such as Best Buddies International, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. 

Project: create the word love from Britto pattern 

Step1: Draw a straight line down on the left hand side 

Step2: draw a line across the bottom

Step3: draw a line up

Step4: draw a line back to the left

Step5: draw a line up to the top

Step6: draw a line over to the top of the first line: L

Step7: on the bottom of the L draw a large circle

Step8: Draw a small circle inside the large circle: O

Step9: Draw a diagonal line behind the letter o

Step10: Draw a line across the bottom

Step11: Draw a diagonal line back up

Step12: draw a line across the top

Step13: Draw a diagonal line down to the center

Step14: a line across the bottom

Step15: A line back up to the top

Step16: A line across the top to meet the first: V

Step17: From behind the V draw a line down

Step18: a long line across the bottom

Step 19: Continue with up, down and across lines helping students to construct an upper case E

Step20: draw a squiggly line across all the letters

Step21: fill in the top part of each letter with a pattern

Step22: fill in the bottom portion of each letter with a pattern

Step23: one pattern should be One heart to honor Britto

Step24: fill in the pattern using only one colors in each pattern in oil pastels

Step25: fill in the remaining portion of each pattern in watercolor

Materials: 

Pencils, Sharpies, Oil pastels, Watercolors. Spray bottles

Warm and Cool Color Seascape with Hans Hoffman

This lesson plan is adapted from and earlier lesson plan: Warm and Cool Colors with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: 

Hans Hoffman and his work Seascape, 1941

This piece is on display at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

What do you see in this piece?

Does it look like a photograph

What colors did the artist choose?

what do you see first when you look at this piece?

Landscape: foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line

line

Warm and cool colors

seascapes

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966)  

German-born American abstract expressionist painter. 

He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 

In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.

Hans Hofmann’s paintings bridged the gap between European Modernism at the beginning of the century and Abstract Expressionism a generation later. 

Hired by the University of California at Berkeley in 1930 to teach a series of courses, his curriculum was the most progressive in the state. 

The artist’s combination of Cubist structure and bright Fauvist color, combined with his “push-pull” theories of color and composition, proved revolutionary. 

In California, his views were a decided departure from the way artists were accustomed to thinking and seeing. 

He came to Berkeley through the invitation of Worth Ryder, a former student. In 1932, 

he moved to New York, teaching at the Art Students League and then at his own school. 

In 1958, he retired from teaching to devote full time to painting. 

His late paintings of overlapping squares confirmed his reputation as an internationally important modernist.

Hofmann's work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships.

His completely abstract works date from the 1940s.

Hofmann believed that abstract art was a way to get at what was really important. 

He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak".

PROJECT: students create a warm and color seascape

Step1: students see their vertical page in three parts:background, middle ground, foreground

Step2: Background: using black oil pastel, create a circle sun and a series of vertical stripes

Step3: middle ground: using black oil pastel: students paint in a series of curves that will become mountains

Step4: foreground: using black oil pastel: students draw in a body of water with sail boats

Step5: Background: students color in the stripes in warm colors, orange and yellow using oil pastels

Step6: students color in the middle ground mountains with cool colors of green values in oil pastels

Step7: student color in the sea in values of blue and their sail boats in reds and oranges in oil pastels

Step8: using watercolors paint over the piece with the right colors for each section.

Materials:

12x18 thick white paper

watercolor paint in primary, secondary

oil pastels

black oil pastels

Warm Sunsets with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: 

Warm Colors

Positive space

Negative space

Landscapes

Trees

Van Gogh

Van Gogh's:  Landscape at Sunset

ARTIST: Van Gogh

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

PROJECT:

Step 1: paint your sunset in warm colors of watercolor

Step2: Using pencils draw three trees across your black paper 

Step3: carefully cut out your trees leaving your land to hold the three trees together

Step4: Paste your black paper on your watercolor sunset

MATERIALS: 

Thick paper

Paint white and black

Paint brushes

Water

Scissors

glue