Showing posts with label q-tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label q-tips. Show all posts

Saturday, March 2, 2013

YAM: Artistic Staff Development, Post #4

Here is part 4 of my 4 part YAM staff development post!  Last one!

7.  Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Art Ben-Day Dots:  Faculty will create this simple, up-close view of an eye, just like Lichtenstein!

Draw the eye with eye brow and lashes.  Paint with black acrylic.

Add a small piece of hair in the corner if desired...using a q-tip, add the skin-colored Ben-Day dots.  Lightly use the other end of the q-tip to add color to the eye.


8.  Keith Haring: Simple figures in action!:  Staff will create these simple figures based on Keith Haring, and see what students learned about when they painted our first mural in the school!
Draw the figure, add a horizon line.  Paint the ground and background.

Paint the figure.  Using the paint bottle, outline the figure and horizon line.  Add movement lines.

Add some texture to the ground!

9. Kandinsky: Simple Circles:  Last, but not least, I'll have the teachers do these circle paintings.  Pretty easy and self-explanatory.



On of the other teachers, who is very into art, made the comment to me that I should save all of the teacher's art and display it in the halls.  That way, they actually try, AND, it shows the public that they support the art program.  I think I'll be saving these and displaying them with the kids art in our art show this year!

YAM: Artistic Staff Development, Post #3

Here is part 3 of my 4 part YAM Artistic Staff Development post!

5. Piet Mondrian: Mixed media artwork:  For this project, the teachers will use tissue paper.  The process will be much like my Mondrian collages that the Kinders did earlier this year.
Cut out various shapes and sizes of squares and rectangles.

 Coat the canvas board quickly with acrylic gloss.  Lay the tissue paper on the wet gloss before it dries.

Paint gloss over top of tissue paper. Be careful if you are using tissue paper that bleeds!

 Dip the flat edge of a paint scraper in black acrylic and add horizontal/vertical lines to your collage.

 

6. Seurat: Pointillism Still Life:  Teachers will create this still life using acrylic and q-tips!

 Draw a simple vase with a horizon line.  Using dots, paint the ground (below the horizon line) black.

 Add some white dots to the edges to lighten it.  Keep the ground right below the vase darker...this is the shadow from the vase.

 Paint the background (above the horizon line) with blue dots.

 Lighten the edges by dotting in some white paint.  Dot the vase red.

 Dot in some yellow and white in the middle of the vase.  This will help make the vase look 3-D.


...to be continued!