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

Paul Klee 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: Paul Klee

Masks in Twilight

Paul Klee   b.1879

Masken im Zwielicht (Masks in Twilight), 1938

Oil on paste board

Discussion

·        Artist Paul Klee said, ‘a line is a dot that went for a walk’. This is often what happens with a doodle…you don’t plan to draw; your pencil just seems to wander off across the paper. This drawing is made from an almost unbroken line that makes a series of round-cornered boxes. The artist then added stick legs and eyes to make the shapes into a quirky character.

·        While he is remembered as a skilled artist capable of mastering a wide range of styles, with a sharp eye for colors, Klee wasn’t always confident in his abilities as a painter.

·       The painter himself took note of that change and wrote in a diary entry: “Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.

SOURCE: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/paul-klee-google-doodle-art-paintings-death-cubism-surrealist-expressionism-switzerland-hitler-a8687286.html

 


Materials needed

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

Black pen (optional)

1 piece - 8.5x11 piece of heavy weighted paper; perhaps watercolor but more weight than copy paper.

1 separate of scrapbook paper

Scrapbook paper scraps

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

Watercolor paint 

Water bowls

Water

Paint brushes of varying sizes

OPTIONAL: crayons, markers, colored pencils if watercolor paints are not available

Scissors

glue

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.  Place your paper SHORT side down on the table.  Create a dome on the page for the body.

 

 


 3.Add arms reaching up to the top of the page. Add hands.

 

 

4.Create the eyes and add some details.


 

5.Create some funky brows.  And create a funky nose.

 

6.Now add the mouth. Add some funky gear like details.

 

7.Here are some examples. 

 

 

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Eric Carle 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: The Tiny Seed – Eric Carle

 

 

 Discussion

·       Eric Carle’s book “The Tiny Seed” conveys the miracle of a seed.

·       Carle loves to connect his art with nature.

·       His illustrations are famous for their brilliant colors and simple design

Source: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-88708-015-9

 

 
 

Materials needed

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

Black pen (optional)

1 piece - 8.5x11 piece of heavy weighted paper; perhaps watercolor but more 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. 

Paint – acrylic or tempura – orange, black, yellow

OPTIONAL: crayons, markers, colored pencils, watercolor paints if paint is not available

Sponge shaped like capital “D”

Green construction paper

Brown lunch bag

Cotton balls

glue

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.

 

 

This lesson has a directed drawing component to it.  Place your paper SHORT side down on the table. 

 

2.Using your orange paint, take your “D” shaped sponge and add paint to the sponge with a paint brush.  Stamp it on your page as one of your petals.

 

         

 

 

3.Shape them in a circle to create a flower pattern.

 

4.Cut a thin rectangle from the green construction paper and add it to the petals to create a stem. 

5.Tear pieces from the green construction paper to use as leaves.

6.Glue them wherever looks natural. 


7.Take cotton balls and dip in black paint and stamp them in the middle of the petals.


8.Tear pieces from brown paper bag and add them as the dirt to your painting. Use a cotton ball to stamp a bit more orange into the petals.


1.     OPTIONAL: paint the background.

 

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Terrell Powell 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: Terrell Powell

Owls

 


Discussion

·       Terrell Powell likes memories, dreams, and everyday life to inspire my work.

·       Powell loves to have surprises happen in a painting.

·       He says, “For me the uncertainty of what will happen in a painting is an essential aspect of making art.”

 

Source: http://www.skylinearteditions.com/terrell-powell/

 

 


Materials needed

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

Black pen (optional)

1 piece - 8.5x11 piece of heavy weighted paper; perhaps watercolor but more 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. 

Watercolor paint 

Water bowls

Water

Paint brushes of varying sizes

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.  Place your paper long side down on the table.  Draw a circle in the middle of the page. This will be the face of the owl in the middle.

 

 

3.   Draw stylized eyes, a beak and cheeks in the middle of the circle.   

    

 

2.    Add a “U” underneath the circle to be used as the body of the owl.   

 

3.    Add rounded triangles on each side of the body for the wings.  Add slim rectangles for the legs underneath the body.  Add geometric shapes to the body and wings similar to the ones seen in the sample painting.

4.    Draw an owl on the left of this owl -this one with the beak on top of the circle.

 

5.    Draw the owl on the right with the beak on the left side of the circle. 

 


6.    Here is another sample of the markings to use on the owls.   

 

7.    Paint your drawing.

 

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James Rizzi 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:

James Rizzi: “Cruising on a Love Boat”

 


Discussion

·       James Rizzi is famous for his linear, childlike style, vibrant colors and zany imagery. His work was described by the critic Glenn O'Brien as a cross between Picasso and Hanna-Barbera.

·       Rizzi himself listed his idols as Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Bugs Bunny.

·       He developed his talent for the eye-catching and the quirky, notably for corporations in Japan. There, Rizzi worked with considerable success on television films, puzzle designs, restaurant menus, a whisky company calendar and the cover of a dictionary.

·       In 1996 he achieved his most high-profile job, as official artist for the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. He created a series of paintings of the opening ceremony that are now in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. The "Olympic spirit" and Rizzi's art were a perfect match.

 

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/dec/30/james-rizzi

 

 Materials needed

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

8.5x11 sheet of copy paper

11x14 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

Foam brushes

Watercolor paints

Blue, White and yellow tempura paint

Oil pastels/crayons

Ruler (optional – you may choose the draw the line dividing the page for the younger students or allow the students to free draw the lines).

Baby wipes

Aprons

 

Length of Time/Duration of project:

40 minutes

Prep work:

-      Draw the water line.

This should take no more than about 15 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.

 


2.Take your copy paper and place it in front of you.  Mix your blue and yellow paint together to create green.  With foam brush, paint blue and green paint on the page in wide strokes, filling the page.  Let Dry.


 


3.Place your 11x14 piece of paper in front of you.  Draw a horizontal line about 1/3 of the way from the bottom of the page.

 

 

 


4.Now we begin the directed line drawing of the painting.   Draw the shape of a bowl in top of the line.  I would use the words “above the line” after being certain the students understand what that means.

 

5.Draw a straight horizontal line slightly smaller than the boat.  Connect the line to the boat with two curved vertical lines.  Draw 2 parallel curved lines inside the body of the boat.


6.Draw portholes and a deck.


7.Draw smokestacks and smoke.



8.Tear the dried copy paper into 5 horizontal strips and mix them up.



 

9.Glue the strips in random order underneath the boat.  Trace the details of the boat with oil pastel or crayons.  Paint the boat and the background with watercolor paint.  Older artists can add more detail from the Rizzi painting to their own.

 

 

 

 

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Andy Warhol Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade

 


Joseys Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

This Lesson: Andy Warhol

 Red Flowers


 


Discussion

-Andy Warhol was inspired by flowers.   He made drawings of flowers in the tradition of representational still life. Blotted-line daisies, roses, and gold-foiled irises appeared in early commissioned artworks and book illustrations. He returned to the floral still life in 1974, with a series of screen prints based on Japanese ikebana arrangements.

-Warhol’s 1964 Flowers paintings may have been created as a kind of tribute to the slain President John F. Kennedy. Warhol created the works along with his portraits of the grieving Jacqueline Kennedy only months after the assassination.

-He is famous for exploring popular culture in his work. Popular culture is anything from Coca Cola to pop stars to the clothes people like to wear. He made a print of Campbell’s Soup – a popular brand of soup in the United States. He said he ate Campbell’s tomato soup every day for lunch for 20 years!

 

Source: https://guyhepner.com/artist/andy-warhol-art-prints-paintings-for-sale/flower-paintings-by-andy-warhol/ and https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-andy-warhol

 


Materials needed

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

Black pen (optional)

2 PIECES - 8.5x11 piece of heavy weighted paper; perhaps watercolor but more 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. 

Tempura or acrylic paint – my example is done with acrylic paint.  You will need the following colors: red, white, black 

Paper plates/palettes

Water bowls

Water

Paint brushes of varying sizes

Scissors

glue

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30-40 minutes

Prep work:

Gather the materials

Create a sample

Cut the flowers if working with younger students

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.  Place your paper short side down on the table.  Draw a curvy line like a fluffy cloud or cotton candy.  

 


 

 

 

 

3.   Create two more of varying sizes; add a seed pod to the  middle of the flower shapes.      

 

4.    Paint the flowers with red paint and the seed pods with accents of black and white paint.

5.    Let dry.  Take your second piece of paper and with a wide brush alternate in different directions and create lines with black and white paint until the paper is filled with color.  Let dry.

 

6.    Cut out the flowers and begin thinking about how you want to assemble them onto the second painted page.

 

7.    Glue the flowers to your page.

 

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