Trina Merry, a talented bodypainting artist based in San Francisco, will prove to you that one of the best, most beautiful and most dynamic artistic canvases in the world is the human body. Her “Human Motorcycle Project” is only the latest of many works by Merry. Her images make clever use of the human bodies hiding underneath the paint.
Understanding color in art is an important task for all artists. You'll learn how to combine colors and pick a type of color scheme in art.
This project turned out better than I hoped. A few weeks ago, I had the kids paint 4 sheets of paper with dark-light versions of a color. ...
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE this lesson! It's colorful, fun, and full of cheer! :) To begin, start by reviewing color mixing with your students. If you're teaching upper elementary they probably already know that a primary color + a primary color = a secondary color.. but do they know that a primary color + a secondary color = a tertiary (or intermediate) color? This lesson is GREAT for teaching about those tertiary colors! After reviewing, give students a sheet of heavy drawing paper and have them LIGHTLY draw out 6 (or 7 if you want to add a second red balloon next to the purple to be able to create red-violet) balloon shapes (upside-down egg with a small trapezoid at the bottom) that overlap each other. The size of the paper is totally up to you, but this lesson does lend itself to doing some different sizes (like tall and narrow). Once the balloons are drawn, have students paint in every other balloon a primary color with watercolor paints. The first balloon should be red, the third should be yellow, and the fifth should be blue. I personally like painting them so that one side of the balloon is more heavily saturated with color (to help create the illusion of form) - but the highlights we add later will do this as well. At this point it will likely be the end of class. This is a great stopping point because it allows the primary color balloons to fully dry before painting the secondary color balloons. You want them to be dry so that the colors don't accidentally bleed into areas that are not actually overlapping. If you're using watercolor paper, the water in the paint will sit on the surface longer - so it's even more important to make sure that it's FULLY dry before continuing. If you're using a heavy drawing paper (recommended) then it should just take a few minutes for it to dry out enough to be able to continue painting. Students will need to paint the secondary colors into the remaining blank balloons, keeping rainbow order in mind. This is a great opportunity to have students problem solve to determine which color goes where. For example, there's an empty balloon in-between the red and the yellow balloon. What color would be made if red and yellow were mixed together? Orange! As students start painting in the secondary colors and they overlap the primary colored balloons, they'll start to see the tertiary (or intermediate) colors coming through! What happens when the purple balloon overlaps the blue balloon? Blue-violet is made! Once everything is completely dry, give students colored pencils to add the ties and ribbons to the bottoms of the balloons. Then finally using a white chalk pastel, have them add a highlight (or more) to each balloon. To get the most realistic highlights, the curvature of the highlight line should match that of the balloon (so rounded like the edge of the balloon). Have student lightly blend in the chalk pastel with their finger. The highlight is what really makes the balloon look like a balloon! :) To add a nice finishing touch, try mounting the pieces of art of black construction paper. Then using all those bits of colored scrap paper (that I KNOW you have haha), add some confetti pieces to the border. I think this finishing touch REALLY makes this lesson even more fun looking! If you'd like the full lesson with all the resources used (including two amazzzzzzing PowerPoints), check it out in my shop. :) Also available in my TPT store.
Design duo Scholten & Baijings - the ambassadors of Dutch Design Week 2014 - carefully compiled an exhibition in the Klokgebouw.
I'm going to have my students learn about art from other cultures and I've always loved the Aboriginal Dot Paintings from Australia and New Zealand. Aboriginal Dot paintings didn't exist until 1970 when Geoffrey Bardon became an art teacher with the people in Papunya, Australia. He encouraged the Aboriginal People to record their drawings with paint on canvas instead of in the soil. Since the Aboriginal People didn't have a written language they used drawings to tell their stories and history. During ceremonies Aboriginal people would clear and smooth over the soil to then apply sacred designs which belonged to that particular ceremony. These designs were outlined with dancing circles and often surrounded with dots. In the early years of Papunya (dot) paintings still showed clear depictions of artifacts, sand paintings and decorated ritual objects. But this style disappeared within a few years. Uninitiated people never got to see these sacred designs since the soil would be smoothed over again and painted bodies would be washed. This was not possible with paintings. Consequently Aboriginal artists abstracted the sacred designs to disguise the meanings associated with them. Thus lines were painted with dots. The works feature a symbolic language of U shapes, concentric circles, journey lines and bird and animal tracks. Artists used a limited number of motifs to express many meanings. A concentric circle, for example, may indicate a camp, a waterhole or corroboree place (A corroboree is an event where Australian Aborigines interact with the Dreamtime through dance, music and costume. "Their bodies painted in different ways, and they wore various adornments, which were not used every day."). It may also represent all or part of a person, the stem of a tree, the centre of a food plant ancestor or a natural feature such as a hill. I am going to encourage my students to use some of the same designs in their paintings that the Aboriginal People used and an animal native to Australia such as: Kangaroo, lizard, turtle, koala bear, snake, platypus, etc... The early paintings used mostly earth tones native to the desert landscape, but as time has gone on brighter colors are being used. Materials needed: Black or brown paper bamboo skewers Acrylic paint Pencils Begin by drawing your main animal shape on the paper. Outline this with the skinny side of the skewer dipped in white paint. You'll probably have to dip about every 2 dots. The skinny side will allow you to get more detail in your design, then you can fill in with larger dots. In my design I included concentric circles and a "Journey Line" as well as decorative designs. Next add some shapes such as arches, spirals, circles, wavy lines etc.... Now you just add more and more dots around and inside your animal. Continue filling in with more dots and add more shapes until it feels balanced and finished. Use both the fat and skinny side of the skewer to get contrast. There is a meditative quality to creating these - where the students are just responding to their design with pattern and color. It's a lot of fun and students can easily achieve wonderful results. Student Artwork:
I found this cute art therapy activity on Pinterest, from Emerly Arts, and decided to create my own version to share. The exercise can be used during a time of transformation, or just to help make …
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Our school art fair was a few days ago. It is one of my busiest times of year. It usually falls around some very special birthdays and during one of my favorite times of year...spring. The teachers hang student art around the building, there is a book fair in the...
Emotions Color Wheel An Art Therapy Directive www.creativitymattersllc.com Description: This activity is good to ...
Learn how to use the HS Emotion Wheels and HS Needs Wheels to productively process and use emotion in your personal and professional life.
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Kindergarten completed their exploding hearts this week, so it's time to create something new! I thought it'd be fun for them to learn how to cut out a heart, and use patterns, lines, and paint to create a work of art around their heart! Materials: 12x12 90 lb Sax paper 4x4"red tru ray paper Crayola oil pastels Jack Richeson Semi-Moist tempera cakes I started out showing them how to cut out a heart from folded paper. I tell them to draw an ear shape or the top part of the number 2 to do so. Then, I demonstrated different lines or patterns they could use to decorate the space around their heart with an oil pastel. After the oil pastel lines have been done, I showed them how the oil pastels resist the paint and still show through even though they've been painted over! Stay tuned for some awesome art! Check out these excellent examples from Mrs. Campbell's class! Here are some AMAZing artworks from Mrs. Robertson's class! Here are some AWESOME artists from Mrs. Susong's Class!! Here's Mrs. Reece's class after day 1
Children with A.S.D. will explore emotions with the My Many Colored Feelings art activity. Put colors to emotions and learn to identify feelings.
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I usually start the year with kindergartners learning about and using lines. In previous years we have made line paintings and line sculptures with wire and pipecleaners. Another fun project we made was line windsocks by rolling up line paintings and adding tissue paper streamers. We’ve done line drawings (check out what my old blog used to look like before I moved it over to this website.) This year I was reminded by Cassie Stephens of a project I used … Read more... →
