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Paper Markers or crayons Below are steps for making the eggs and chickens. However, feel free to include your own patterns and designs! :) You may glue your design to a colored piece of paper and fold it to create a card. Or, you can keep it as is for a nice farmable creation! Happy Easter!
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Vincent van Gogh created one of the most famous paintings in history when he painted The Starry Night. It's vibrant color scheme, swirly twirling stars, and bold Post-Impressionist style all come together to make it a true masterpiece. Starry Night is a LANDSCAPE. Which means, it is a picture of the land outside. In this landscape, there is a dark object right in the front which is the foreground. This object is an abstract tree. Then, what do you see down below? That’s right! A whole city! And then, swirling blue colors in the sky with those bright stars!! How dreamy!? For this week’s project, you will need: · Black Construction Paper · White School Glue · Oil Pastels If you don’t have these things, improvise and create your own colorful version of Starry Night. Vincent van Gogh is one of the world’s most famous painters. When you start school, one of the first artworks that you will ever look at is probably Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. This painting is very famous. Look at its bright yellows and the way each of the fourteen sunflowers are painted differently. Van Gogh painted Sunflowers for the room in the yellow house he was renting in Arles, France. His friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, was coming to visit and Van Gogh wanted to redecorate. Today, most people know the name Vincent van Gogh. However, when he was alive, he was not very famous at all. Since his death, he has become one of the most successful painters in history. People across the world have admired his unique style. If you look closely at his paintings, the brushstrokes are broken up. It is as if you can see each time Van Gogh put his brush on the canvas. Do you like this style? This is called impressionism, when you can see all of the little brushstrokes.
In total, Van Gogh made around 2,100 artworks. So, if you only know Sunflowers, there are many more paintings by him to discover. Look up Van Gogh. Explore his beautiful impressionistic artwork! You won’t be disappointed! As for your artwork this week, grab a black marker, oil pastels (if you have some), crayons or markers (if you don’t have pastels), and a big imagination! You will be creating your own Sunflowers in a vase. Start with the outline, then add color! Don’t forget the table line behind the vase. Make it creative. Make it your own! The month of March is Vincent van Gogh’s birth month. So, we will be talking about him for the next few lessons! Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands, but travelled across Europe. He went to France, Belgium and England. When he was in London, he was inspired by all the art he saw in galleries. Van Gogh’s brother, Theo, worked in an art gallery and introduced Van Gogh to many artworks. Van Gogh was interested in painters who were painting everyday life. When he was 27, he decided to become an artist. Up until then, he had been a teacher, a shop assistant and had dreams of working for the Church. All of these experiences inspired his art. Van Gogh struggled with mental health problems. This meant that he sometimes felt very angry or sad and was not able to control his emotions. Sometimes, he would harm himself and have blackouts. Van Gogh used painting as a way to express his emotions and way to help with his illness. Do you enjoy doing art when you feel sad? I know it definitely helps me! Van Gogh is famous for his self-portraits. No one knows exactly how many he created, but over 40 can be seen in museums and galleries around the world today. A self-portrait is a picture you create of YOURSELF! He used self-portraits as a way of practicing portraits without having to pay models to sit for him. One of his most famous paintings shows him just weeks after he has cut off part of his ear. The bandage looks like it is on the wrong ear because he painted his self-portraits while looking in the mirror. Although every portrait is different, van Gogh used some common elements in all of them, such as a serious, intense gaze and his distinctive red hair. Create your own self portrait!
Look in the mirror and fill the frame below with a version of your own self-portrait! To make your pictures different, alter things like your facial expression, your pose, your hairstyle, what you are wearing, etc. Choose background colors that reflect different moods. Try:
We have already talked about Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama when we created her polka dotted pumpkins in the fall. Now, we are going to be creating her octopus tentacles with cool colors and warm colors! So, let’s talk about WARM colors. Warm colors are the colors that make you think HOT, like the sun (yellow), lava (red), and fire (orange). So, the warm colors are yellow, red and orange. COOL colors are the opposite of warm. So, cool colors are purple, blue and greens. Our octopus tentacles will be cool colors (like the cool ocean), Our background will be warm colors! All you need to get started is paper, sharpie, Crayola markers, a cup of water and a small paintbrush. Draw the octopus tentacles coming up from the bottom of the paper. Just big, wavy lines.
Get your COOL colors and create cool colored polka dots on your tentacles. Now, get your WARM colors. You will put warm color polka dots in the background. Dip your paintbrush in a little bit of water and glide your brush across the cool color tentacles, then the warm, to watch the watercolor effect happen! See picture below! Alma Woodsey Thomas developed her signature style—large, abstract paintings filled with dense, irregular patterns of bright colors—in her 70s. Thomas was born in Columbus, Georgia, the oldest of four girls. In 1907, her family moved to Washington, D.C., seeking relief from the racial violence in the South. Though segregated, the nation’s capital still offered more opportunities for African Americans than most cities in those years. Thomas’ early art was realistic, though her Howard professors Loïs Mailou Jones and James V. Herring challenged her to experiment with abstraction. When she retired from teaching and was able to concentrate on art full-time, Thomas finally developed her signature style. She debuted her abstract work in an exhibition at Howard 1966, at the age of 75. Thomas’ abstractions have been compared with Byzantine mosaics, the Pointillist technique of Georges Seurat, and the paintings of the Washington Color School, yet her work is quite distinctive. Thomas became an important role model for women, African Americans, and older artists. She was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, and she exhibited her paintings at the White House three times.” Look at some of her artwork below. You can even Google her and see some abstract landscape paintings! Try out some Alma Thomas work on your own! Materials:
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1. To begin, make your paper a square, then find the center. 2. Trace a small circle lightly with pencil in the center of the page as a guide. 3. Make your first color a circle of paint in the very center. 4. Wipe your brush, get a new color or paint, and begin making square dash marks around the first circle. 5. Continue by changing color for each concentric circle. Use a larger brush if desired. Custom mix your own shades of color. 6. Fill the page with colorful circles. Dasic Fernandez is a street artist. He loves to create drips of paint in his artwork. He uses LOTS of color!!! Chris Uphues is also a street artist and loves to paint HUGE hearts on big buildings in cities. His mission is to spread love and happiness. Your mission is to create a mash up of each artist! On a piece of paper, draw a BIG heart in the middle with black marker. Then, create a face in your heart. Add some drips behind your heart and color in bold, bright colors! Have fun! I have placed some examples below!
This week, we are making mixed up creatures! Think about adding hearts or googly eyes! Maybe even create your creature on a card for Valentines Day coming up! Have fun!
Week of January 25, 2021Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist artist in the 1980s. He was born to Haitian and Puerto Rican parents. Basquiat started as a New York City Street Artist. He tagged "Samo" all over NYC, and left postcard sized masterpieces for people to find. Basqiat liked to incorporate sketches of human anatomy and random words that he would copy out of books in his studio. Basquiat also liked to use images from pop culture, like the dinosaur in his painting Pez Dispenser. Basquiat was a contemporary and collaborator with Pop Artist Andy Warhol and fellow graffiti/gallery artist Keith Haring.
To make another type of dream catcher, gather up a paper plate, scissors, yarn and beads or feathers! STEP ONE: Cut out the middle of your paper plate.
STEP TWO: Punch holes around the ring. STEP THREE: Thread yarn through the holes. STEP FOUR: Attach beads and/or feathers! |
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