Hands & Pattern
Lesson Sequence:
Session 1 - Introduction
- Build on the idea of shades of pastel and how to use complimentary colour to add impact to an artwork.
- Students to rule up, using a ruler and art pencil a grid pattern onto A3 cartridge. (10cm).
- Go over grid lines with a black vivid.
- Erase any pencil lines.
Session 2 - Creating
- Place hand in the middle of the grid pattern, draw around the hand with an art pencil.
- Turn the A3 cartridge 90゜, repeat the hand drawing process, making sure that the new hand slightly overlaps the first hand.
- Turn the paper again, place the hand and draw around it, remembering at least some part of the hand much touch one of the other hands. Repeat the process until there are 5 hands on the paper.
- Go over these with black vivid, erase any pencil lines.
Session 3 - Pastel
- Choose one hand to pastel.
- Choose one colour (blue). Each time there is a line somewhere on the hand, change shades of blue NOT colour.
- Choose a different hand and colour, repeat above.
Session 4 - Pattern
- In every second square in the background, place an X. This means that there will be no pattern in this space.
- Use zentangle examples to support students pattern each space without an X.
- Go over these with vivid, making sure that there are also some patterns blocked out to provide interest.
Session 5 - Black blocks
- In each space that has an X, paint in carefully with black paint. Will probably need at least two coats to get depth.
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Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
Lesson Sequence:
Session 1 - Introduction
Introduce students to some artworks and life history of Georgia O’Keeffe. Show and discuss prints, books, postcards and research. Discuss characteristics of her work. Develop acronym charts with simple illustrations being done in felts or vivid. This is an easy way for children to remember characteristics of O’Keeffe work.
- Discuss the fact that O’Keeffe often had very little background in her work.
- Possible questions -
- Who was Georgia O’Keeffe and what can you tell me about her?
- Name 3 characteristics of her work and what meaning they conveyed or why they were significant.
- What subject did the artist mostly draw and paint?
- Discuss the use of colour, in particular warm, cool and neutral. Introduce the colour wheel.
Session 2 - Preparation
- Share photos/pictures and real flowers with students - what do they notice? Use magnifying glasses as well.
- On one piece of A4 newsprint, using an art pencil, draw what you see. Think about the shapes, where they start and end, what happens if they go off the edge of the paper?
Session 4 - Flowers onto A3 Cartridge
- Once happy with the design, redraw onto A3 cartridge.
- The flower is to go right off the edge of the paper.
- Touch all 4 sides of the paper with their flower.
- Overlapping encouraged, especially petals.
- Outline the flowers in vivid.
- Erase any pencil lines.
Session 6 - Pasteling the flowers
- Give small workshops on colour choice and pasteling - in particular, feathering colour so that it blends and does not turn into candy stripes.
- Think carefully about colour choice and how colour will be used on the flower design.
- Colour must stay inside the black vivid lines.
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