Artists at Work: Meet The Paintbrush

Painting at Last!!!

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

A. Skill Acquisition

Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Today, we are going to become friends with our paintbrush.
We are going to learn different ways to hold and control the marks we make with this new tool.

Every painting begins with a brushstroke. A brushstroke is a mark made by a paintbrush.
What kinds of brushstrokes do you see in these paintings?

Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled

Franz Kline, Mahoning

Exploring the Paintbrush, how to hold, and control movement:

• parts of paintbrush--bristle, ferrule, handle

• how to hold a paintbrush

• Children locate shoulder, elbow wrist and finger, hold joint with free hand. Pretend to paint in air moving each joint. Notice how the length of the brushstroke changes.

Artists at Work:
Guided Practice Video

Paint:
Long straight line, leave a space, paint another
Curved line
Wavy line
Zig-zag
Dashed line

Ma Lien and the Magic Brush, Hisako Kimishima

Paper Play! Cutting & Tearing Paper

  Paper Play! 

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

A. Skill Acquisition

Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Tearing Paper
Artists sometimes use their hands to tear paper. 
What kind of shapes do you see?
Why do you think this artist used torn shapes? 

from Leo Lionni's book Frederick

Paper tearing: Using your hands as tools to change the shape of paper

• With the grain
• Against the grain
• Finger position
• Tearing a Line
• Tearing a Shape

Video for tearing and cutting

Cutting Paper

Artists use scissors as tools to change the shape of paper.  

How can you tell that the artist cut these shapes with scissors?
What shapes do you see?

The Snail by Henri Matisse

Cutting Shapes:

• Using Scissors
  -safety-how to hold
  -scissors poem
• Cutting squares, rectangles, and triangles
  -using more than one strategy

Arranging Shapes: 

What will you think about as you arrange your shapes? 

Try several arrangements

Dog made by Kindergarten student

Share Time/Reflection:
What two ways can you make shapes with paper? 
What kind of shapes can you make by tearing? cutting? 
Which method to you enjoy most?

Artists at Work: Crayon

 What can I do with a crayon?

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

A. Skill Acquisition

Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Experiment with Crayon Techniques: Using the tip and side of the crayon, and creating a rubbing using crayon

As artists we will discover many ways to use materials in the art room. 

What is a crayon, and how is it made?

How crayons are Made-Mr. Rogers

How to make a crayon video link

5:49-11:52

Let's try some different ways we can 

 use our crayons!

Materials needed:

Crayons

2 or 3 of broken, peeled crayons

2 half sheets of copy paper

Small piece of consruction paper and a few small squares of construction paper

glue stick

Video Lesson

The Day the Crayons Quit

Artists at Work: Making Art with Natural Materials

 Artists work with Natural Materials

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are NATURAL MATERIALS? 
Materials from NATURE that we can use to make art.

examples include: rocks, sticks, leaves, flowers, grasses, feathers, clay etc.

• Intro, Watch the first part of the video
• Pass out rocks, students sort rocks
• Video part 2, Students arrange their rocks to create pictures, stories, etc.
• Book
• 

    

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

Rhonda's Rock Hunt

Scribble Stones

                                        

         original lesson 8/24/16

                Artmaking Using Natural Materials

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are natural materials? 
Materials from nature that we can use to make art.

Can you tell what natural materials these artists used to make their art?

Arranging Stones

Explore the Materials:

• Special stones
• How many ways can you think of to sort the stones?
• Describe arrangement and title work.

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

Did you work alone or with a  partner/ as a table?

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

Introduction to Art

 

Introduction to Art

Students come in and stand on the line. Quick Greeting-

This year you will have a special place to sit when you come to our art class.I'm going to show you those special places now.

I want you to listen for your name. When you hear your name come over to me.

Sit in your special place. I will point to it.

Seat students

Welcome to art class! We are going to have an exciting year together in art, full of discovery
and art making. We will draw, collage, paint, and make sculpture. We are going to learn
what it means to be an artist and how to work like an artist because we are all artists.

Now we are going to create some art....

Think about something beautiful (Envision)
-think about something you love
-what do you think is really cool?
Can you draw a picture of that ? Can you glue down shapes to make a picture?

Use your imagination to make something beautiful.

Materials:
Paper

pencil

crayons

glue stick

paper shapes/newspaper

google eyes (1 set)

Clean up expectations:
Clean up song:

1. Silent/no talking/whisper voices

2. Everyone should help clean up their table

3.Put your head down

 

What did you make?

What drawing materials did you use?

How were you brave when you made your art? Did you try something new?

*Remind students to raise their hand and wait to be called on.

In school, we are respectful by raising our hands when we have something to say.

Thank individual students for being respectful and raising their hands.

                                                                            Art Song

Line Up Time.

Practice line up expectations.

Quiet

Feet on tape

Facing forward

Rizzi Cityscape

Yesterday we learned about an artist named Wayne Thiebaud.

What did Wayne Theibaud love to make art about? That's right, DESERTS!

Today we are going to learn about another artist, his name is James Rizzi. Then we will do art inspired by his ideas. 

Wayne Thiebaud

 

Wayne Thiebaud

Is there something you love so much, you only ever want to make art about that thing?

Maybe it's sports, or cats, or cars...

There was an artist named Wayne Thiebaud, who loved sweet treats. He loved how beautiful they were, how unique they were and how interesting they were to look at, especially in a bakery when they are all lined up. He decided he only wanted to make art about DESERTS.

 

You can make art like Wayne Thiebaud. 

Think of something you are interested in, and draw three of them really large on the paper. 

Maybe it's ice cream cones, maybe it's fish, maybe it's cupcakes. 

Draw with a pencil first, then trace with a sharpie, then color with crayons.

Don't forget to draw a line behind the objects for your table and add shadows. The shadows should be the same color as your table, just much darker.