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Contents
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Teaching Simply
Welcome to the Words of Art Video #1 Watercolor Crayons
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Artists Compose
The Courtyard of a House in Delft by DeHooch
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Artists Imagine
The Birthday by Chagall
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Video #2 Identify and Mix Colors
Artists Observe
In Flander’s Field by Vonnoh
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Artists Communicate
The Christening Feast by Steen
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Video #3 Construction Paper: Cut
Artists See Shapes
Flower Day by Rivera
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Video #4 Construction Paper: Fold
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Artists See Form
Boy with Bagpipes and Young Bear (artist unknown)
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Video #5 Oil Pastels Artists See Texture
The Sunflower by Klimt
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Artists See Landscapes
Monte Sainte-Victoire by Cezanne
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Artists See Still Lifes
Still Life with Coffee Pots by Van Gogh
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Video #6 Draw Shapes Artists See Animals
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Sentinel of the Plains by Dunton
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Artists See Figures
Blue Dancers by Degas
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Artists See Portraits
Henry VIII by Holbein the Younger
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Objectives
Shape Template
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Materials
The art materials used throughout this book are listed below. Having these items on hand will simplify the preparation for each art class. You can conveniently pull required materials from your stock as needed according to the list in each lesson. Items from the starter pack materials will be used in subsequent volumes. STARTER PACK MATERIALS Watercolor Crayons set* Oil pastel set Two Ebony ® pencils Vinyl eraser Watercolor brush, #8 round Watercolor paper pad Drawing paper pad Construction paper, assorted colors HOUSEHOLD ITEMS Paper towels Container for water Handheld 2-hole sharpener
Fiskars ® scissors Elmer’s ® Glue-All Glue stick
*Caran d’ache Neocolor ® II Watersoluble brand recommended
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Watercolor Crayons
Lesson 1 Video #1
Gather a pencil, eraser, watercolor crayons, watercolor paper, a brush, a water container, and a paper towel.
To make your own painting with watercolor crayons, follow these steps:
1. Select a few favorite objects from your room. Look for the things you love.
2. View Video #1 to see how to make a picture using watercolor crayons. Your art project will be unique as you apply the methods shown in the video to your own ideas.
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Prep Notes for Lesson 2 Gather the art materials listed on the project page. You and your child may enter a discussion on whether to draw what they see inside the home as they work on a table or go outdoors to observe the home from the outside. To prepare for outdoor painting, you will need to provide a smooth, flat surface to place under the paper. This could be a clip board, drawing board, or a table surface. Water, for the color application, can be transported in a jar with a lid. Awareness always precedes the drawing activity. Your child will be asked to paint something that happened today or yesterday in the home. You may want to look at the home together. Point out some of the things that you see and the things that you find interesting. Then ask your child what things he or she sees. After a brief period of observation, allow your child to make the art independently. Each child should make his or her own choices regarding what will go into the artwork.
Outside the Home Environment
When instructing a group outside the home environment, you can point out the activities of the classroom. What is happening now? A teacher stands and reads to the students. Students might sit around a table or under a tree. The entire class could be conducted outdoors where students can observe different types of buildings in their surroundings. A brief period of observation, in which a few students volunteer to speak about what they notice, is helpful in giving the students a broader idea of the possibilities that exist for their pictures. Another option is to focus specifically on their homes, where students would work from their memories of those environments. Students should work independently while making their choices of what will go into the artwork.
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Music, dance, theatre, and visual arts are all part of what we call the arts . People that work in the arts are artists. Artists put things together to create something new; they compose. Musicians place notes together to compose songs that we hear. Choreographers put body movements together to compose dances that we feel. In theatre, story and song are put together to compose plays that we act out. Visual artists place images on paper to compose pictures that we see. This book is about visual artists. They work with the way things look. They move objects and colors around, composing their pictures, so that we can see a part of the world the way that the artist sees or imagines it. Artists Compose Lesson 2 Can you sing a song? Have you played a musical instrument or pounded a stick to the beat of the music? Have you ever danced to music or recited lines in a play? Perhaps you’ve drawn a picture. Participating in any of these kinds of activities is making art. Tell what you’ve done.
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The artist, Pieter de Hooch, composed this painting. He shows two activities happening within a home. On one side, a woman talks with two men. On the other side, a child sits within an open doorway. Two scenes come together. A child with a yellow skirt sits in the closest doorway. What does she hold? How many doorways do you look through in this painting? What part of the painting tells us that this is a clear, sunny day? The Courtyard of aHouse inDelft, 1658 by DeHooch 17th Century Netherlands
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YOU COMPOSE
STUDENT GALLERY Cayla age 6
You just looked at a picture of a home from long ago. This scene could have happened on any day. Paint a picture of something you have seen today or saw yesterday in your home. Compose the people, animals, or objects. Include the objects that surround them like doorways, windows, or sidewalks.
Gather watercolor crayons, watercolor paper, a brush, a can of water, and a paper towel.
1. Draw lines around the outside edges of the objects you see. Draw these lines with watercolor crayons in the colors that you see. Fill in the spaces with color.
2. Dip your brush in water. Activate the color as you pull the wet brush across the filled-in spaces.
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Construction Paper: Cut
Lesson 7 Video #3
Gather construction paper, a scissors, a pencil, and a glue stick.
To cut a paper collage, follow these steps:
1. Look outdoors for objects that you would like to put in your paper picture.
2. View Video #3 to see how to make a collage with construction paper. Your art project will be unique as you apply the methods shown in the video to your own ideas.
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Artists See Shapes
Lesson 8
Prep Notes for Lesson 8 Make sure that a window view of the outdoors is available. You may choose to take a walk or to look out a window at nature. Gather the art materials listed on the project page.
Everything has shape. Shape is what we see when we look at the object’s edge. You can identify many things by their shapes. Botanists identify trees by the shapes of the flat leaves.
Identify these two fruits by their shapes. You cannot see the roundness or the color of the fruit, yet you are able to identify them easily. Shape tells us a lot about what we are looking at.
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Flower Day, 1925 by Rivera 20 th Century Mexico
Shapes are flat. Some shapes, like circles, squares, and triangles, are easy to recognize. Shapes can describe natural forms such as flowers, animals, or people too. The artist, Diego Rivera, painted natural shapes in this scene of a peddler selling flowers for Flower Day. Colors can show us the edges of a shape. Leaf shapes are green. Each person’s shirt is white. Hair is black. A wide basket is yellow.
Which shape is repeated over and over?
Can you find the shapes shown below within the picture?
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YOU MAKE SHAPES
Gather construction paper, scissors, a pencil, and a glue stick.
You just looked at a picture made of many colorful shapes. Make a paper cutout collage to make your own picture with shapes. Look at an outdoor scene. You might take a short walk to look at objects outdoors. You might look out a window. Draw shapes of some of the objects that you see. Cut them out and glue them to the background colors.
1. Cut out the shape for the ground.
3. Cut out big shapes. Glue them onto the background.
2. Glue the ground shape onto the background sheet.
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The Student Galleries, which you see on the project pages, feature artworks made by another child. The artwork will not look like yours because this student saw different things outdoors andmade different choices about the kinds of things to put into their art. Every person is unique. Every work of art is unique. Enjoy looking at the artworks of others, but remember that you are not trying to copy it. In your artwork you are showing others what YOU see.
STUDENT GALLERY Ellie age 7
5. Draw the smallest details onto the picture with a pencil, crayons, or other marking tool.
4. Cut small shapes. Glue small shapes on top of the big shapes.
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Objectives The purpose of objectives is not to inhibit or restrain creativity in any way, but to ensure that the activity is focused clearly enough that both student and teacher know what is to be learned in the lesson. When objectives are met, your child is learning, without regard to the skill level or outcome of the art being produced! Lesson 1: The student will be able to select an object to paint, draw the edges, and fill in with watercolor crayons. The student will add water to the painting while handling the brush in a pulling motion. The student will pull the brush across the edge of the water container after each rinse to control the amount of water in the brush. Lesson 2: The student will be able to look at his or her current surroundings as a guide for the subject of the painting. The student will compose people, animals, or objects in a picture while using watercolor crayons as a painting medium. Lesson 3: The student will execute a narrative picture featuring any imaginative elements that he or she desires. The student may select distortion of proportions, distortion of color, or other elements of non-reality to better tell the story. Lesson 4: The student will be able to identify colors by name and will select and mix primary colors to create the secondary colors: orange, purple, and green. Lesson 5: The student will explore and discover a variety of natural objects found outdoors or inside. The student will use several of the objects as subjects for a watercolor painting. Lesson 6: The student will describe, in a picture, an event or a place by painting a worker, performer, or person within a particular situation. The artwork will show descriptive elements through objects, colors, or symbols that are keys to describing the person or place. Lesson 7: The student will recognize cuts as lines that show the color where to stop. The student will draw shapes, cut shapes, and glue shapes to arrange a picture of the outdoors.
Lesson 8: The student will identify the shapes of the subjects within an outdoor
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