Extra Art- Play-Doh

What kind of things do you like to make with

 Play Doh?

The Largest Play doh sculpture is the size of a real car

You can roll out a sphere and add on or flatten it to make your sculpture

You can use a stick to press in eyes, textures and designs.

You can roll out a long coil to make letters 
or a coil pot

Extra Art-Expressive Faces

 Happy, Sad, Angry, or Surprised? 

 A person's expression shows you how they are feeling.

Draw 4 Circles with eyes and noses

 Draw an different mouth for each face

Draw a window around each face

Are your people on a submarine, a school bus, a sleigh, an suv, a train, or something else?

Extra Art-Watercolor Painting

Making Art with Watercolor and a Little Bit of Crayon

Kindergarten students choose their subject, and create a drawing using Sharpie markers.

Students can add details or color some areas in crayon

Students paint carefully with watercolor, remembering to wash their brushes between colors.

Share Time/Reflection-Discuss with a Friend or Two:

1. What is your favorite part of your work?

2. What would you change about your work?

3. What did you learn from working with watercolor paint?

Extra Art--Collage

What Magic can you make with 3 Popsicle Sticks, Paper Strips and Oil Pastel

I am an Artist-Kindergarten Self-Portraits

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

Lesson and pictures are from Cassie Stephens' blog. Cassie Stephens is an art teacher in Nashville, TN. Click here to see the full lesson. 

The Colors of Us by Karen Katz

Instructions:

Day 1 Background

Day 2 Draw Face

         Cut out 

         Glue down 

         Paint Hair

Day 3 Cut out Shirt
          Glue down
          Draw small Drawing

Desiging a cover for the Music Program

Today you are going to design a picture that could be used on the Christmas music program!

The themes this year are:

Santa, Elves, Reindeer, Clocks, and Dance Party

1. Have students try recall the names of some of their songs for their music program.
2. Talk about the above themes and how to make art that can be used on the cover of them music program. (It must be drawn in pencil, traced in sharpie, and the pencil marks erased afterward.
3. Demonstrate on paper taped to whiteboard, how to draw christmas themed subjects using basic shapes. Demo. tracing lines with a sharpie so that they know not to color with it. 
4. Remind students to draw a background...is it outside on the rooftop, at the North Pole, or by a Christmas tree? What are the characters doing? 
5. Distribute papers and pencils. Have students write their name on the back. 
6. Play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as they get settled in. They may sing along :)
7. Pencil, Trace Lines carefully with sharpie, and erase pencil marks.

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Thinking and Working as Artists-Chalk Pastel

What can I do with a Chalk Pastel?

A chalk pastel is made from a powdery substance that is used for drawing and comes in many different colors.

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Chalk pastels have a soft look, and can be blended easily.

Mary Cassatt-Little Girl in a Big Hat

On the Cliff-Theodore Robinson

Lynn Morgan-The OrangeWoods

Today we are going to explore and discover how to use chalk pastels!

• Two ways to hold a pastel, tip and side
• Changing pressure 
• Layering colors
• Blending with one finger

Share/Reflect:

Describe some colors made with pastels?

What happens when you press harder/lighter when you color with a pastel?

What happens when you put one color on top of another?

What happens when you blend with your finger?

Extra Art-Tempera Paint-Changing Colors and Mixing

Link to Lesson
Diane Jaquith's Choice Art Blog:Self-Directed Art Choice-Based Art Education

Extra Art-Kindergarten-Stick Trees Mixed Media

Some Artists Use Natural Materials to make Art

What did these artists use to make their art?

Patrick Dourgherty

Andy Goldsworthy

Sharon Nowlan

Earlier this year we arranged stones to make art. 

Today we are going to use sticks as part of our art!

Materials Needed:

Sticks

Markers 

Paper, Scissors and Glue sticks

Beans and buttons

Paint

1st Day of Art

Welcome to art class! 

We are going to have an exciting year together, full of discovery and art making. We will draw, collage, paint, and sculpt. We will discover what it means to be an artist and how to work like an artist--because we are all artists!


What do artists do anyway?
What kinds of things do they make art with?
What do artists make pictures of?
How do artists work? (quietly, they think...)







Some of you mentioned that artists draw. Today we are going to draw a picture of a person. What things do you need to draw if your are drawing a person?

Share Time:

• We talked about working like an artist earlier today. What does that mean to you? 
• Did anyone work like an artist today?
• What can we do to work like artists?
• Describe the person you drew.

Painting Dots (Extra Art)

Dots, Dots are Everywhere!

Artists Sometimes make art using lots of dots

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘The obliteration room’

 Pointillism

 Aboriginal Dot Painting

What Kind of Art Can You Make Using Dots?

Lesson link to The Artful Parent

You can find dots in the world around you.
Where can you find these dots?

Video: Mati and Dada-George Seurat

Making a Mural

What is a Mural?

A mural is a large scale painting executed directly on a wall or ceiling

Murals can be purely decorative, but often they have a message to share with the viewer

We are making murals on paper, to hang on the wall.

Is your mural decorative, or does your art have a message?

(We made ocean murals after guest speakers visited our school and shared information about the Great Barrier Reef)

Watch the creation of this mural:

Explain the process of Making Art While Creating

Will Hillenbrand-Kite Day

What was Mole and Bear's Artistic Process?

Theme: Kites

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重
Japanese, 1797-1858

Fukuroi: Famous Kites of Enshu 

Susan Manzello, Mixed Media

Danielle V. Green, Watercolor and In

Make your own kite-themed art. Pay careful attention to your artistic process. Be aware of what you do first, second third, etc. 

1. Use the supplies in the art boxes to make a piece of art that includes any kind of kite.

2.Stop students about 10 minutes after they begin working to pair share.
STUDENT 1: The first thing I did was...
STUDENT 2: "     "
next
STUDENT 1: The second part of my art making was...
STUDENT 2: The second part of my art making was...

3. At the end of class have students pair share their final step.
STUDENT 1: The last step of making my art was...
STUDENT 2: The last step of making my art was...

Framing Art/ An Art Museum

Frame It!

Today we are going to make a frame for our painted landscape.

Picture frames have been around for more than 3,000 years. A picture frame is a decorative edging for around a picture.  Framing your art is a good way to show off your pictures, and a good way to protect your pictures.

FRAMES!

FRAME YOUR LANDSCAPE :)

THE MUSEUM

Museum talk :

What is an art museum?

How is it different from other buildings?

What do you do in an art museum?

How do you behave in an art museum?

STUDENTS WALK THROUGH THEIR ART MUSEUM OF PAINTED LANDSCAPES AND VIEW AND TALK ABOUT THE ART

Landscape Painting

What is a landscape?

A landscape is a picture that shows a natural scene of land, or the countryside!

Head in the Clouds, Georgia O'Keeffe

The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh

Ploughed Cornfield, Edvard Munch 

Envision:
Close your eyes and imagine an outdoor space that means something to you. It could be a farm, woods, or park. It may be an outdoor space that you've seen on vacation or when you visit your relatives. 
Think of all of the details you can remember about a typical day at this place, such as the season, the weather, the time of day, the kind of trees, flowers, hills, mountains, and grass. Imagine what was nearby. 

Drawing:
Draw a landscape on a 9x12 paper with Sharpie. 

Questions:
What kind of landscape did you make?
Why did you choose the landscape that you painted?


Day 2
Painting our landscapes


Paint Landscape with Cake Tempera, making sure to wash when changing colors. 

What kinds of colors will you choose to paint your landscape? 

Using Tempera Cakes to paint Landscapes

-review cleaning brushes between colors

-using brush with a pulling motion

-making colors opaque and transparent