Spaces and Places - Maps

 

When we talk about spaces and places, communities, homes, happy places and towns, we must talk about maps.

Maps show us the directions to get from one place to another.

Maps give us information about a place a we want to know more about.

Maps can be a beautiful work of art. 

This book will show us all the possibilities of things you could make a map about. 

You can create a map of your town

A map inspired by your favorite book, game or movie.

A map about yourself.

Make a map of your heart

Fill it with things that are near and dear to you

Creative Ways to View a Scene

• Artists look for creative ways of viewing a scene and how different perspectives can change the message of a piece.

 

Sketch some ideas for something you could look through...

(Keyholes, windows, fence...)

Choose one and enlarge on a piece of paper

Lightly sketch out the rest of your scene with pencils. 

Choose ONE Color and a dot of white and black.

Continue painting the landscape using variations of tints, shades, and tones of the chosen color. Choose a different brushes for different areas and textures.

Paint in the keyhole (or fencing) material using a mixture of black and white with a bit of the chosen hue. Add details with different values of this color. Share and discuss.

What is atmospheric perspective?

Rafal Olbinski, 1943 | Surrealist painter

CREATING

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Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.

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Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

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Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.

Day & Night

Themes of DAY & NIGHT

Musicians have come up with many songs on the subject like the songs you are learning for your concert.

Artists have come up with many artworks as well.

Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Nights

Edward Hopper - Nighthawks 1942

Henri Rousseau - Sleeping Gypsy 1897

Ed Smiley - Sun-illumined Lantern Held In Midnight

Hannah Höch - Little Sung

Stelios Votsis - Untitled 2003

Edvard Munch - The Sun 1909

Olafur Eliasson - The Weather Project (2003)

Photography

You may feel inspired by Day or Night as well.

Collage

Drawing

Drawing/Painting Collage

Before getting started

Are you a night owl or an early bird?

What are some images that symbolize or make you think of daytime?

What are some images that symbolize or make you think of daytime?

Nature's Beauty: Observing Nature Up Close

 

Nature's Beauty: Observing Nature Up Close

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

B. Investigation

Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Today we will learn to look carefully at flowers and leaves to discover the beautiful details in the natural world.

During this week, you can look for other natural objects that you might like to observe closely and draw.

Have you ever looked at a flower up close?

What did you notice that you didn't see from far away?

Here is a painting from far away of a field of poppies

Here is a painting close up of a single poppy

Do you think this artist could paint this flower from memory? 

Or would the artist need to see the flower in real life?

This artist, Georgia O'Keefe would study flowers in real life so she could notice all the lines, shapes and colors.

Some artists like to observe nature from a distance, far away

Some artists like to observe nature up close

Which way do you like to observe nature?

Paper Sculpture

 

The Sculpture Studio

Create	1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.	A. Play & Ideation	Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials
		B. Investigation	Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Welcome to the Sculpture Studio!

This week we are learning about working in the sculpture studio, using construction paper!

Materials Needed:

Colored construction paper

Scissors

Glue (bottle)

First Grade Sculpture Lesson

Second Grade Sculpture Lesson

Third Grade Sculpture Lesson

Marisol Escobar, otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City.

Marisol created wooden sculptures out of rectangular pieces of wood and wooden boxes.

"...it is my goal as an artist to create works that expose injustice and reveal beauty. the rainbow is literally a spectrum of color while...a symbol of hope and promise."
— Betye Saar

Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan explore the idea of moving, community and memory in their cities and structures made of cardboard

Other artists who work with boxes  

Mark Dion is a contemporary artist who explores our curiosity. A shed packed with hundreds of small boxes, containers, and tins – each filled with old trinkets, toys, debris, or dried plants. Few visitors know that you can enter and open any box (do it!) You are invited in and are welcome to take out the boxes and look inside.

Memory boxes can be all shapes and sizes. Objects inside bring about the senses of sight, touch, smell or sound will evoke some of the strongest memories.

Each box has an object or several objects that are waiting for discovery.

Artist Ibrahim Mahama transforms materials and found objects to explore themes.


Ibrahim lives and works in Ghana.

As you watch this clip:

What were the boxes in this artwork originally used for?

What doe Ibrahim compare the boxes to?

Ibrahim creates walls and installations constructed in common materials. He often works with found objects, transforming them and giving them new meaning.