Robin Norgren, M.A, R-YT, Spiritual Director Robin Norgren, M.A, R-YT, Spiritual Director

Georgia O'Keefe Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade


Josey’s Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

This Lesson:

Georgia O’Keefe

“Black Mesa Landscape”

 

Discussion

·        When Georgia O’Keeffe was a little girl, her mother used to read history and travel stories to her every night before bed.

·        At the peak of her career, O’Keeffe left New York and moved to the exotic expanse of the Southwest to live a solitary life.

·        O’Keeffe’s love for the landscape and energy of the Southwest shimmers with growing vibrancy. It was there, under the endless skies and fiery sunsets of the Southwest, that O’Keeffe developed not only the remarkable mastery of color for which she is known but also the most essential tool of all art — the ability to pay attention, to look and actually see.

Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/22/georgia-okeeffe-southwest/

 


Materials needed

Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

8.5x11 or 9x12 white cardstock/precut poster board/140lb watercolor paper – something with a bit more stability to it than copy paper in order to withstand the amount of paint and glue your students will be using.  You will need enough for each participant to use as the base for his/her artwork

Paintbrushes and water bowls

YOUR CHOICE: Tempura/Acrylic/Watercolor paints

Rulers (optional)

Baby wipes

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30 minutes

Prep work:

-      Gather the materials

This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes

 

Instructions

You have a few options for how you want to proceed with developing the main thrust of the project.  I work with 3-5 year olds in a Montessori setting.  This means that you are met with a gamut of skill levels.  Some children will have no problem handling more of the details of this project which means less time needed to prep and more of the experience for the way the artistic process works is offered to the child.  I have attempted to give you two ends of the spectrum but please feel free to modify as needed.

 

 

1.   Take your piece of white paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own. We will be creating 4 different types of lines to represents the texture of the landscape seen in Miss O’Keefe’s painting.

 

 

2.   We added a bit more of a jagged edge to this line.


3.   This line contains more softened bumps with a dip towards the middle.  You can tie in geography terms here if you like to represent each of the lines.


4.   Last line which represents the mountain range.


5.   You may choose to designate colors for each of the segments like the original painting or add in discussion about the color wheel and which colors compliment/contrast with each other.


6.   I will show you the colors my students chose to use.


7.   I used a combination of watercolor and acrylic paint.


8.   We talked about how to add texture with our paintbrush.  You use a tapping motion with the thicker paint on top of the thinner paint. 


9.   For the mountain range, we alternated between black and white and did a little color mixing to get shades of gray.

 

 

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Lipunja Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade

 

Josey’s Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

Lipunja

 

This Lesson: Aboriginal Art


Discussion

-Aboriginal art represents renewal in the culture. It shows the resilience and adaptability traditional Indigenous family systems. 

-A stunning example of the painting of Lipunja. Lipunja was one of the founding artists of the Milingimbi’s Contemporary Art movement.

-Lipunja’s work can be found in collections all over the world - including the Kluge Ruhe, USA.

 

Source: http://www.milingimbiart.com/publications/choosing-who-will-keep-the-stories-strong-the-garrawurra-artists-of-milingimbi/

 

 Materials needed

Pencil (make sure to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

Black pen (optional)

1 piece of 9”x12” mixed media paper or cardstock – something heavier weight than copy paper

This is a lesson that can be adapted in many ways depending on the age and skill level of your classroom. 

Acrylic paint – white/yellow/orange/brown/black

sponges

Paintbrushes/water bowls/paper towels

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30-40 minutes

Prep work:

Gather the materials

Create a sample

This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes

 

Instructions

1.   Take your piece of paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.

 

 

2.    This lesson has a directed drawing component to it.


 

3.    This diagram shows the center of the page.




 

4.Turn the two circles that connect with petals to make a flower.


5.Create ladders to touch the edge of the page.

 


2.    Create hills that connect the ladders.   


3.    The structure begins to look like the bridge.

 


4.    Create the horizontal borders.


 


2.    Take sponges and use the paint (except black) to design the painting.



3.    Paint the background in between in black – I would have younger students use a black crayon instead of black paint.

 

 

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Piet Mondrian Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade



Josey’s Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

Contemporary Art: Piet Mondrian

By


 Composition II

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discussion

-In Piet Mondrian groundbreaking paintings of the 1920s, Mondrian strictly limited his color palette to black, white, and the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue.


-Mondrian attempted to represent the world through vertical and horizontal lines which to him represented the two opposing forces: the positive and the negative, the dynamic and the static, the masculine and the feminine.


-Mondrian was a founding member of De Stijl, an influential Dutch art movement that advocated pure abstraction to express a utopian ideal of universal harmony.

 

Source: http://fineartists.blogspot.com/2012/05/piet-mondrian-abstraction-and-his-trees.html

 

Materials needed

Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

Black pen (optional)

8.5x11 piece of copy paper.  If you plan on painting the drawing it would be best to use a heavier grade paper.

This is a lesson that can be adapted in many ways depending on the age and skill level of your classroom. 

Optional: markers/crayons/colored pencils/watercolors- I am showing two examples: tempura paint with construction paper and ALL construction paper

Blue/red/yellow construction paper cut into rectangles

Blue/red/yellow tempura paint

Sponges cut into squares

Black construction paper cut into thin strips

Glue

scissors

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30-40 minutes

Prep work:

Gather the materials

Create a sample

Pre-cut construction paper rectangles and strips

Draw rectangles on white paper as a template for where to place the construction paper rectangles or sponge paint.

This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes

Instructions

1.   Take your piece of paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.

 

 

2.   I am going to start with the painting option:  students use the paint and the sponges to stamp inside the rectangles on the page.

 

 



3.    Use the black construction paper strips to frame the painted rectangles.

 

 

COLLAGE OPTION:

1.    Cut red, yellow and blue construction strips into rectangles.


Glue various colors of rectangles on the page – make sure to spread them out.  Frame with black construction paper strips.

 

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Mark Rothko Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade

 


Josey’s Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

by

Robin Norgren, M.A.

This Lesson:

Mark Rothko

 “No. 6 Violet, Green and Red”


 

 Discussion

-Rothko did not have much money where he was a boy. He thought he would become an engineer or an attorney—careers at which he would make some money. But In 1923, his second year of college, Rothko left Yale and started classes at an Art school.

-Rothko’s early paintings were of real-life objects such as people, buildings, and landscapes.


-Rothko decided that simple shapes were the best for showing complicated feelings. The large, simple shapes allow you to feel instead of think when you look at Rothko’s paintings.

-Beginning in the late 1950s, Rothko used much darker color. He overlapped colors until the canvas was covered with deep reds, blues, blacks. He was painting sadder, angrier moods than before.


SOURCE: http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2008/05/mark-rothko.html

 

 Materials needed

Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

Black pen

8.5x11 or 9x12 white cardstock/precut poster board/watercolor paper– something with a bit more stability to it than copy paper in order to withstand the amount of paint and glue your students will be using.  You will need enough for each participant to use as the base for his/her artwork

This is a lesson that can be adapted in many ways depending on the age and skill level of your classroom. 

Watercolor paint

Household sponges cut into rectangles

Paintbrushes and water bowls

Acrylic paint (or Tempura paint)

Baby wipes

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30 minutes

Prep work:  Gather the materials. Draw the dividing lines for the project if you feel this might be a distracting part of the project.  This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes

Instructions

  1. Take your piece of paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.

 


 

  1. Place your paper long and tall.  Draw a SLIGHTLY squiggly line towards the bottom of the page and then 3 more with the smallest space at the top.


 

3.   Paint the top quadrant with a blue-sky scene using blue watercolor paint.


 

4.   With Rothko’s work, the beauty is about the texture.  Students should make sure the paint is heavy on the sponge and stamp with the sponge in the areas close together.  Start with your darkest paint at the bottom.


5.   Continue with each of the other two paint colors.



 


6.    Draw trees in the watercolor area. 


7.   Using the same three acrylic/tempura paint colors, paint the tops of the trees using a paintbrush and moving the brush in a swirling motion to create texture in the trees.



 

8.   Paint the trunks of the trees using black watercolor paint.


 

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Jasper Johns Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade

 


Josey’s Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

This Lesson:

 Jasper Johns

 

 “Target”


 Discussion

Interesting Facts about Jasper Johns

·        Jasper Johns is an American artist whose work which laid the foundation for Pop artists like Andy Warhol.

·        Johns has received many honors throughout his career, including receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

·        Johns painted objects that everyone could recognize, like flags, numbers (and more numbers), targets, and maps. The paintings don’t show Johns’ opinions. In fact, the artwork may not have any meaning at all. His paintings show us things that we have seen hundreds of times and often just ignore. But we don’t ignore Johns’ paintings. Instead, we study them and find new meaning in the objects he shows us.

Source: https://learnodo-newtonic.com/jasper-johns-facts and http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2009/03/jasper-johns.html

 

 Materials needed

Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

8.5x11 or 9x12 white cardstock/precut poster board/140lb watercolor paper – something with a bit more stability to it than copy paper in order to withstand the amount of paint and glue your students will be using.  You will need enough for each participant to use as the base for his/her artwork

Paintbrushes

Water bowls

Acrylic paint (or tempura paint for younger children) red/blue/yellow

Circle templates (or choose everyday items to use as circle stencils)

Q-tips

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30 minutes

Prep work:

Collect the materials for the project.

Decide how you will create 4 different sizes of circles

(circle template is below)

 

 

 

Instructions

You have a few options for how you want to proceed with developing the main thrust of the project.  I work in a Montessori setting.  This means that you are met with a gamut of skill levels.  Some children will have no problem handling more of the details of this project which means less time needed to prep and more of the experience for the way the artistic process works is offered to the child.  I have attempted to give you two ends of the spectrum but please feel free to modify as needed.

 

1.   Take your piece of white paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.


2.   Create your first circle.


3.   And the next circle


4.   Continue with your circles.


5.   Now let the students freehand the largest circle.  You could also have the students freehand ALL the circles.



6.  Begin to paint every OTHER circle blue.



 

7.   Paint the alternate circles in yellow.  The background is painted red.  Let the painting dry.  Then take Q-tips and put make markings of the opposite color in each of the circles.  


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Jean-Michel Basquiat Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade

 

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Josey’s Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

This Lesson: Jean-Michel Basquiat - “Untitled”


 

Discussion

 

·       Basquiat’s mom instilled a love for art in her young son by taking him to art museums in Manhattan and enrolling him as a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

·       Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist.

·       His paintings are typically covered with text and codes of all kinds: words, letters, numerals, pictograms, logos, map symbols, diagrams and more.

·       Basquiat doodled often; they were often colored pencil on paper with a loose and spontaneous style. His work across all mediums displays a childlike fascination with the process of creating.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat

 

 Materials needed

Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

Black pen (optional)

8.5x11 piece of copy paper.  If you plan on painting the drawing it would be best to use a heavier grade paper.

This is a lesson that can be adapted in many ways depending on the age and skill level of your classroom. 

Tempura or Acrylic paints – blue, green, white, black

Cardboard fragments

Scrap paper

Rounded larger than the usual thin Paint brushes

Water/water bowls

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30-40 minutes

Prep work:

Gather the materials

Create a sample

Cut your cardboard into squares/triangles/rectangles

This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes

 

Instructions

1.   Take your piece of paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.

 

 

2.   Take the paintbrush and begin to paint with your blue paint in a circular motion.

 


 

 

3.   Fill the page but be careful not to soak the page; leave about an inch of page around the edge. 


 

4.   Paint the outside edge with your green paint.   Add a white circle in one of the corners. If you notice that the paintings need a bit of drying time, put off to the side and start step 5. If you can do this step. Complete it and move the paintings to a drying area.



5.   Take the scrap paper and practice using the cardboard as a paintbrush.  With the perforated edge, create different practice shapes.

 


6.   Move back to the original painting and add yellow paint to the center of the circle.  Begin painting a ladder using white paint. 



7.   Add curved shapes, windows, scene details.


2.   Add a crown somewhere on the page.  Take the black paint and etch in some details in a few areas along your white lines.


 

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