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

David Gerstein Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade


Josey’s Art School

Presents

Art with the Masters

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

This Lesson: Recycled Cardboard Butterflies

 

 

 

 

Yafa butterfly

 

Discussion

-David Gerstein is widely considered to be one of the most creative and innovative artists in the world today.


-Some of his works have been chosen to appear on huge billboards, as human and aesthetic images that aim to catch the eye and engage the heart, and to promote companies like Isracard and the First International Bank.

-His monumental statues adorn Israeli cities; a playground of his invention continues to delight the children of Jerusalem.

 

Source: https://www.gersteinart.com/about-david-gerstein

 

 


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 Cardboard – something like a side of a cereal box panel or taking a moving box and cut into rectangles

OR

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 – various colors

OPTIONAL: markers, colored pencils, watercolor paints and crayons should be available if possible to really create diverse colored butterflies

Paintbrushes/water bowls/palette or paper plates for paint

OPTIONAL: EPHEMERA OR SCRAPBOOK PAPER SCRAPS

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 cardboard/paper SHORT side down on the table.  Draw a scooped line – also looks like and upside down “U”.


3.Close the “U’ with a “V” – add a similar shape next to it. You will be adding two more of these shapes – like petals of a flower or a 4 leafed clover.

 



4.Add antennae.  Begin to design the butterfly. 

 

 5.Here are some design ideas. 

5.Design your butterfly using the materials on hand. 

 


6.Continue to fill with color.  Color the background and outline in black.

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Laura Burch Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade

 


Josey’s Art School

Presents

Laurel Burch: Cats

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

 

This Lesson: Flowering Felines

 


Discussion


-Laurel’s search for connectedness was evidenced in the jewelry she began to make for herself and wear – old coins, bones, and beads arranged into earrings and necklaces. Wearing them gave her a sense of belonging.

-Her creations became bridges to friendships and patrons. Through trading, selling, and giving them away, these artifacts found their way into the lives of people across the country, and the phenomenon of collecting Laurel Burch began.

-Laurel was a self-taught painter. She saw herself as a folk artist, telling stories. “In our fast-paced, changing world,” she said, “we need symbols that are a reminder of the ongoing world of the spirit.”

Source: http://www.laurelburch.com/about.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.

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

Paint – crayons

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

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.  Draw a circle for the face.

 

3.Add ears to the circle out of triangles.

 


4.Add nose with upside down triangle.  Add triangle directly below. 

 

5.Connect the top to the bottom of the circle with a line.

6.Draw squares for eyes.


7.Draw whiskers and draw diamonds inside of the squares. 

8.Draw a cone shape for the body. Add rectangles and squares in the shapes.



9.  Add the collar.

10. Choose warm or cool colors to fill in lines with the cat.  Take segments in the shape and alternate the colors.

1.    Continue to fill with color.  Color the background and outline in black.

 

 

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Gutstav Klimt Elementary Art Lesson Pre-K to 6th Grade

 

Josey’s Art School

Presents

Studying Art with the Masters

This Lesson: Gutstav Klimt “Birch Forest I”

By

Robin Norgren, M.A.

 

Discussion

-Klimt seems to have felt tranquil in the middle of forests.  The trunks are cut off by the top of the canvas.  Rather, the trees reach up to the sky like columns in a cathedral created by nature.

-The rich heritage of folklore based around the forest, including Grimm's fairy tales, may have struck a chord with Klimt.

-Rather than dwell on the mysterious, dark nature of the forest, Klimt has chosen an autumnal scene.

 
 SOURCE: http://www.gustav-klimt.com/Birch-Forest.jsp

 

 


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

Paintbrushes and water bowls

Masking tape

Kitchen sponges cut into squares

Black Acrylic paint (or Tempura paint) – not pictured in photo

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

  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.  Take strips with masking tape and place randomly on the page. 

 

3.   With your pencil, divide your page into 3 using squiggly lines. 

 

4.   Begin to paint the bottom quadrant with green watercolors.

5.   Paint the middle area with brown watercolors

6.   Paint the top of the page with blue watercolors.


7.   Take the masking tape off the page; be careful not to tear the paper.

8.    Outline the tree shapes with black pen/marker.

9.   Paint thin lines in the middle of the white space; blot with the sponge.

10.               OPTIONS FOR OLDER/MORE ADVANCED STUDENTS: tear the masking tape in half and create a denser forest. 

11.               Add shadow to the trees where appropriate. 

 

OPTION FOR OLDER/ADVANCED STUDENTS:  create the speckled effect BEFORE YOU TAKE OFF THE TAPE seen in the original painting by flicking the paintbrush filled with black paint onto the page.

 

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Roy Lichtenstein 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:

Roy Lichtenstein: “Sunrise”

 

Discussion

·        Lichtenstein loved to turn subjects like landscapes to following his comic-inspired Pop look. 

·        Lichtenstein used the dots and the most basic pictorial elements.

·        He became famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons as well as his paintings of everyday objects. He was one of a group of artists making art in the 1960s who were called pop artists because they made art about 'popular' things such as TV, celebrities, fast food, pop music and cartoons.

 

 Source: http://www.roylichtenstein.com/sunrise.jsp and https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-roy-lichtenstein

 


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 (older children option will need two pieces).  On this second page cut off about 3 inches horizontally.

Paintbrushes and water bowls

Blue, yellow and red tempura paint

Ruler (optional – you may choose the draw the lines creating the sunrays for the younger students or allow the students to free draw the lines).

Foam brushes (optional)

Bubble wrap

Q-tips

Baby wipes

Aprons

 

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30 minutes

Prep work:

-      Draw the lines of the sun rays.

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.Draw a large semi-circle on the page.

 

 


3.Draw 5 diagonal lines that attach to the semi-circle – rulers are optional.

4.Draw parallel lines for the diagonal lines and around the face of the sun. 

5.Fill the inside of the parallel lines with blue paint. 

6.Paint inside the sun using yellow paint.

7.Paint inside 2 of the sun rays with yellow paint.  Paint a blue horizon line over the face of the sun.


8.   Student choice to finish the creations using:

Q-tips

Bubble wrap

End of a paint brush

Foam brush

Sponges

This will be their interpretation of the Lichtenstein piece.

 

 

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Pablo Picasso 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: Pablo Picasso: Cubism inspired Dogs 

 

 

“Dog and Rooster (Cock)”

 

Discussion

 

·        Even as a child, Picasso was better at drawing than many adults. He could draw and paint just about anything, and in any style. He liked to experiment and try out new ideas.

·        Cubism is when the artist paints an object, like a bottle, from lots of different angles all in the same picture. So, you see the front, the back and the sides of the bottle at the same time. In a way, it’s a bit like having x-ray eyes!  Picasso loved to paint in this style.

·        Picasso helped us see the world in new ways.  He painted in many ways called “stages:” The Blue Period and the Rose Period came first (when he used lots of blue and pink to make paintings). These were followed by primitivism, cubism, classicism (when he created more traditional or classic artworks), surrealism, wartime and Late Works.

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-pablo-picasso

 

Materials needed

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

12x12 scrapbook paper (you can also use scraps of scrapbook paper)

6x9 piece of blue or black construction paper

White tempura paint

Paintbrushes and water bowls

White and black crayons

scissors

Glue

Baby wipes

Aprons

 

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30 minutes

Prep work:

-      Stencils of shapes of circles and triangles as options for tracing eyes and ears

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 piece of scrapbook paper and place it in front of you.  Paint your paper white allowing some of the colors in the scrapbook design to poke through.  Allow to dry.  Begin to discuss the shapes of the different parts of a dog’s body: eyes, ears, tail, nose.

 

3.Draw a large eye and a small eye using a black crayon.  Now draw a tail = make sure these are not too small because you will be cutting them out. 

 

4.Draw a nose..

5.Draw an ear.

6.Draw a leg.

1.   Take your white crayon and draw 6 dots randomly and spread out on your construction paper.

 

2.   Cut out your parts of the dog and place them randomly on the dots.

3.   Turn your paper around until you can ‘see’ your dog.

 

4.    

 

Gl

 

GlGlue on the parts and use your black crayon and white paint to fill in the vision you see.

 

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Jim Dine 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: Jim Dine “Four Hearts”

 

 

 

 

 

 “Four Hearts”

Jim Dine


Discussion

·        Jim Dine is an American artist and poet known for his contributions to the formation of both Performance Art and Pop Art. Employing motifs which include Pinocchio, heart shapes, bathrobes, and tools, Dine produces colorful paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures.

·        “I grew up with tools. I came from a family of people who sold tools, and I’ve always been enchanted by these objects made by anonymous hands,” Dine has said.

·        Though he was shown alongside Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Dine never considered himself a member of the Pop Art movement.

SOURCE: http://www.artnet.com/artists/jim-dine/


Materials needed

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

Black pen (optional)

1 piece – 9”x12” 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

A variety of colors – your choice - Red, blue, red, white, yellow or green tempura/acrylic paint

Water bowls

Water

Collage paper

Paper plates or palettes for paint

Paint brushes of varying sizes

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

45-60 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.Place your paper SHORT side down on the table.  Create 4 quadrants with a pencil. Use different watercolors and make splotches of various colors in each of the quadrants.

 

 

3.Let the paint dry and make sure to not smear the colors together. 


1.   Use your fingers and the tempura or acrylic paint to create design and finger paint. 


2.   Let dry.

 


3.   Use the collage paper and cut out hearts; glue one in each of the four quadrants.

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