Weaving keychains and/or bracelets with Anni Albers

Discussion of the artist and her work

       weaving as a form of art

       using everyday/odd/found objects to create wearable art

ARTIST: Anni Albers

(1899 – 1994) 

She was a German-American textile artist and printmaker. 

She is perhaps the best known textile artist of the 20th century.

Albers worked primarily in textiles and, late in life, as a printmaker.

She produced numerous designs in ink washes for her textiles.

She experimented with jewelry. 

Her woven works include many wall hangings, curtains and bedspreads, mounted "pictorial" images, and mass-produced yard material. 

Her weavings are often constructed of both traditional and industrial materials, not hesitating to combine jute, paper, and cellophane, for instance, to startlingly sublime effect.

1928 she studied with paul klee and kandinsky at Bauhaus in Germany

I found these beautiful step by step instructions on: http://www.thesmallobject.com/stenopad/wordpress/?p=976

PROJECT: (11:10-12) Create a bracelet using a ribbon picked by each artist.

Step one: Thread ribbon up from behind washer #1. You should leave about 6″ inches of ribbon on the end.

Step Two: Thread ribbon up along the side of washer #2 and back down through the middle. The end should be threaded back through the middle of washer #1. (Still with me…)

Step Three: Pull ribbon tight so washer #2 lies flat against washer #1.

Step Four: Thread ribbon back up through washer #2 so it weaves underneath washer #1.

Step Five: Repeat process. Thread ribbon up alongside edge and back down through the middle of washer #3.

Step Six: Thread end of ribbon back through the middle of washer #2.

Step Seven: Pull ribbon tight to the right so you have all three washers laying flat. Repeat above steps until you have five on your ribbon.

 Step 8: tie it in your wrist. 

MATERIALS: 

Washers

Ribbons in boy and girl styles

Duct Tape Wallet/Clutch

DISCUSSION: 

Duct Tape What is it????

How many different colors does it come in? 

                what can it do?

                where have you used duct tape?

               have you ever seen duct tape used in art?
               have you ever used duct tape in your artwork?

History: Duct tape: is a polyethylene multi-purpose tape with a soft and flexible shell and pressure sensitive adhesive. 

It is generally silver or black in color but many other 30+ colors have become available. 

Standard width of 1+7⁄8 inches (48 mm)

Duct tape was originally developed during World War II in 1942 as a water resistant sealing tape for ammunition cases. 

Johnson & Johnson, used a rubber-based adhesive to help the tape resist water and a fabric backing to add strength. 

It was also used to repair military equipment quickly, including jeeps, firearms, and aircraft because of these properties.

In military circles, this variant is known as "gun-tape", typically olive-green, and also known for its resistance to oils and greases. 

PROJECT Duct Tape Wallet 9:30-10:30

Step 1: fold a sheet of tag board (long way for wallet, in half for a clutch

Step 2: cut two pieces of tape and fold in half over both ends

Step 2: Unfold the paper. pick fun colors cut and tape all the way down the front

Step 3: Fold the paper back, finish both sides with a piece of tape to close

Step 4: For Clutch: cut a piece of tape to 15" fold in half all but both ends. attach ends to the tag board

Step 5 : Personalize with strips and symbols of colored duct tape

MATERIALS: 

Duct Tape in several colors and patterns

Scissors

Tag board

Crown of flowers with Raoul Dufy

DISCUSSION 

Shape: where do shapes come from?

Can you name a shape?

Where do we see shapes in nature?

How did shapes help you to get to class today?

How many shapes can you find in the classroom?

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, print maker, 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: (9:30-10:30) create a flower (star) garden crown from simple shapes

Step1: using scraps from yesterdays monsters cut shapes of felt

Step2: Cut large shapes and small shapes The small shapes will be glued 

Into the large shapes to create flowers or stars

Step3: glue together your stars or flowers (create at least five in different 

Colors)

Step4: glue them unto the top of your fussy stem (pipe cleaner)

Step5: bend your stems at different lengths.

Step6: add any glitter to your flowers

Step 6: All it to dry

Step 7: Fold your piece of Green construction paper into a hot dog

OPTIONAL: we could paint shapes/flowers on green construction paper 

And construct entire crown at the end of class when dry???

Step8: measure your head and cut your crown to fit (teacher help)

Step9: place and glue your flowers into the fold so your garden will be 

  Secure

Step 10: allow them to dry.

MATERIALS: 

Green pipe cleaners

Scrap Felt

Glue or Glue Gun (fast)

Green construction paper

Glitter (optional)

Wild Thing Eco Bags with Henri Matisse

This project is a two hour/day project

Discussion (9:15-9:30)

Pattern

What is it

How is it made or what do we need to have it? Repetition (ababab)

Where do we see it in this room?

Clothing bottom of shoes

Where do we see it at home

Wall paper

Bed clothing curtains

Artists use pattern all the time the most famous is MATISSE

ARTIST: Henri Matisse
1869-1954
French Painter, 

Matisse loved of line, shape and color. 

Matisse felt that his greatest influence had been the work of the artist Cezanne (1839 – 1906, French). 

Artwork known for his use of pattern

In the 1950‘s, Matisse began creating paintings using paint and paper cut outs. 

In his last years, as he aged and fell ill, Matisse continued to paint, this time on the walls of his room, using a piece of charcoal attached to the end of a bamboo pole. 

He painted until his death in 1954. 

Project 1 (9:30-10)

Create a line pattern using blue tape

Step1: use blue tape to create lines on your canvas bag

Step2: paint the spaces without paint using acrylic

Step3: allow it to dry

Step4: remove tape to reveal the stripes

MATERIALS:

Blue painters tape

Acrylic paint in all colors

Paint brushes

Canvas bag for each student

WILD THING tote bags: 

DISCUSSION:  Day 2

Where the wild things are

        Read the book

        Talk about the artwork

Detail each monster and the special things they may have on them: webbed 

Feet,  head dress, scales, horns, etc

Project: (11-12)

Step1: pick your favorite color from the fleece 

Step2: Cut out the shape of the monsters head. Remember horns

Step3: glue the monsters head to your bag.

Step4: pick white eyes and glue them to your monster

Step5: using a black marker draw an X in the eye

Step6: glue and draw on any other monster shapes you want 

Materials:

Fleece

Glue (maybe Hot Glue Guns to make project faster???)

White fleece cut into eye shapes

Black markers

Any fun accents the kids could add: rickrack, buttons, sequins, ribbon, etc.

Shrinky Dink Lines with Piet Mondrain

 

Discussion

Line: what is a line

Why do we need it in art?

Can we have any art without line?

Let’s name some lines and give examples from nature:

Zig Zag Line where do we see it ? mountains

Sqiggle line? Tornado

Wavy line: in the ocean

Straight line: roads

Diagonal lines hard rain with winds

Color: black white are nuetrals

Primary colors are what?

What does it mean to be primary?

What cool thing do these colors do?

ARTIST: Piet  Mondrian

(1872 – 1944)

He was a Dutch painter.

He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group

He evolved a form that consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.[1]

he termed his artwork Neo-Plasticism

In his most famous works: The black lines are the flattest elements, with the least amount of depth. 

The colored forms have the most obvious brush strokes, all running in one direction. Most interesting, however, are the white forms, which clearly have been painted in layers, using brush strokes running in different directions. 

This generates a greater sense of depth in the white forms, as though they are overwhelming the lines and the colors, which indeed they were.

Example of his work below

Project: create Mondrain style shrinky dinks (9:30-10:15)

Step1: using the large circle piece first create a Mondrain style art piece

Step2: start with black lines first a couple up and down

Step3: now draw a couple side to side

Step4: using only primary colors begin to fill in a couple of the squares

Step5: color in all remaining squares white

Step5: using the squares and odd shaped pieces of shrinky dinks create 4 more

               Pieces for using only black ,white and primary colors

Step6: Shrink all pieces of art.

MATERIALS:

Shrinky dinks ($5.50 for ten sheets at Michaels each child would get ½ sheet)

Colored pencils

Hemp string to make necklaces

Beads to fill in between the shrinky dinks.

Screen Printing symbols with Ryan McGinness

DISCUSSION: What is a symbol? (9:45-10)

A picture tells a location or idea

What picture do you look for if you are tring to find a bathroom?

What symbols says love?

What symbols say I have and idea?

What symbol says good luck?

What symbol says I am happy?

Screen Printing: 

You are going to get a screen in a minute 

Right now the entire screen is closed

You are going to get a pencil and open some of the screen to create a picture

When you put paint on the screen the paint will only come through your scratch

                      Marks to make your drawing

This is how they art on t-shirts

ARTIST: RYAN MCGINNESS

(Example of his work below)

1971-

American artist, 

living and working in New York City. 

He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia

studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. 

During college, he worked at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant. 

Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, 

McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments.

PROJECT:  (10:00-10:30)

Step 1: Pick a symbol that best describes you today

Step2: using a pencil scratch that symbol onto your screen

Step3: place it on your t-shirt exactly where you want it to be

Step4: pick an acrylic paint color

Step5: Apply paint to your screen 

Step6: Pull up your screen to reveal your picture on your shirt

Step7: decide if you want more of the same print in the same or diff colors

Materials:

Scratch screen print from dick blick 

White t-Shirt 

Acrylic paint