Unit 3 - Explore Buildings & Communities - Expressive Houses

Expressive Houses

Create	2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
		C. Creating Interactions with Art	Create art that represents natural and constructed environments

Have you ever seen a beautiful house or tall skyscraper and thought "I would like to paint a picture of that"

Or maybe you have made up a dream house in your mind, and would like to share your idea with others.

Many artists show houses in their work. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner liked to paint houses uses very expressive colors. That means not real life colors, but joyful, interesting and exciting colors.

What colors do you see. Can you use beautiful colors to design a an imaginary or realistic house?

Can you add details like you drew last week? 

Windows     Door     Roof     Chimney     Doorknobs     Shutters     Fence     Flowers     Garage

"The Green House"

"Houses in Dresden"

"The Big Orange Splot"

Art lesson

Unit 3 Explore Buildings & Communities - Draw a House from Observation

 Homes!

Create	2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
		C. Creating Interactions with Art	Create art that represents natural and constructed environments

What materials do yere used to make your house? Wood, brick, concrete, stone, metal etc.

How can you show that in a piece of art? Line, shape, color

What are some important details to include in your house? 

 Life would be much more challenging if we didn't have strong buildings that protect us. Houses around the world look different depending on where you live and what materials they are made from.

My dream house has bricks and rectangle windows. I drew my house like I remember my house is.

Architects are important, they design the buildings we live and work in.

Today we are going to make Architect Drawings by looking at a building closely and drawing what we see. Maybe you will be surprised by the things you notice when you look closely!

Book - Dreaming up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale

2/17-18/21 AMI Day

 

Choose your favorite! If you want to share you can have your grown up share it with us on the Festus Elementary Art Facebook page!

Explore Buildings and Communities: Create a Collage City

Create a Collage City 

Create	2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
		C. Creating Interactions with Art	Create art that represents natural and constructed environments

Buildings are all around us!

Let's take some time to talk about the important and interesting buildings that are in our lives.

What would life be like if we didn't have buildings?

Where would we eat or sleep or learn?

An artist named Romare Bearden loved the buildings on his street. He created many important works of art about them. 

There is so much going on in this long collage, lets look more closely at a few sections.

Where can you see rectangles?

What other shapes can you find?

What are some of the buildings in your town used for?

This building has a barber shop.

Can you tell what this building was made out of? 

How does the artist show what is happening inside the building?

Today we are going to create buildings using shapes we cut out of paper to create a Collage City!

Found Object Faces-Extra Art AMI-X

 Found Object Plate Portraits

original lesson from youngschoolart@blogspot.com

 This is my cat Breyer posing with the found object portrait I made- Mrs. Junge

This past month, each one of you created a self-portrait, or a picture of yourself. 

For this project, we are going to make a portrait, the face of someone else! 

Here are the steps: 

1. Pick a plate- Could be a ceramic, plastic, or paper plate.

2. Collect some supplies from around your house, including small toys, kitchen items, craft supplies, office supplies, or foods. 

3. Identify parts of the face and sort objects into categories such as eyes, mouths, noses, etc. 

4. Create a portrait using the objects. Move items around to make different faces, have fun with it!

5. Put items back where they belong. 

more examples:

photos by George Isamar,

an art teacher in Puerto Rico.