Miss Oetken's scratchtastic Greek Vase with Achilles from Greek Mythology We've moved on in our art history time line to Greek and Roman art and we're concentrating on Black Figure Greek pots and vases! We learned about some of the popular basic shapes of pottery and their functions for what they were used for back in Greek and Roman times. I made two types of hand outs and worksheets for students. One that explained the basic shape of the popular vases we were looking at and another that show different examples of popular patterns found on Greek pottery. I also found the link to this website (http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/preload.htm ) a wonderful tool for showing students via projector the types of pottery that existed, how it was made, and ancient history. They also had amazing, easy, and fun printable worksheets I photocopied on the back of the 'how to draw vases' hand out! I also explained that they would apply pigmented/colored slips to decorate with pattern and to create scenes of daily life events or scences from greek mythology. They would also use a 'sgrafitto' 'SCRah-Feet-oh' or scratch with a fine sharp tool to draw detail in the painted on slip. We also learned what 'slip' was, clay mixed with water and minerals to color it. We also wanted to scratch into art history so we made our own scratch board vases to draw into. I painted my vase with black acrylic paint after I colored it in and coated it with warm colored oil pastels. Ready to scratch a design into! Example of an ancient Greek Black figure Hydra vase We also talked how important patterns were in the culture and the process of making the vase and looked at where it was usually applied, around the neck, handles, and base of the vase. Our first step after drawing the vase/pot was to choose a warm colors or cool colors oil pastels and totally COAT the entire vase, pressing hard. If you don't, the black paint will stick and absorb to those areas and won't easily be scratched away. Then after oil pastel fully colored and coated the entire vase, I had students use black acrylic paint to paint over wherever they colored in oil pastel. Next time it would be ready for scratching! We used paper clip ends and wooden styluses to scratch away gently into vases and just remove the black paint exposing the colored oil pastel underneath. Check out some of the finished products! Greek Mythology scene scenes from daily life from our civilization for another civilization to discover! Soldiers resting Popular patterns soldiers in battle
Do you have a full color version of your Hera design? She's so cool and I'd love to see what she looks like in full color if you do! I do!
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An artist's impression of what the Athenian Acropolis may have looked like at the time of classical Greece. From the game Old World.
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DIMENSIONS 19" x 24" MEDIUM archival pigment print Limited edition of 50, 2015 Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed and numbered by the artist In his drawing of an Ancient greek temple, Timothy Hull manipulates classical architecture with optical illusion, a clever stroke by the artist who employs a pastiche of found imagery and limited palette to create paintings inspired by the ruin and artifact of Greco-Roman antiquity. Artforum selected his 2014 exhibition at Fitzroy Gallery as a Critic's Pick, writing that Hull "treats a mixed bag of cultural symbols" like urns, vases, glyphs, epitaphs, and found graffiti sourced from the Ancient Agora of Athens and Pompeii archaeological site "with both humor and reverence." International customers are responsible for applicable duties and taxes.
