PV Hawk Art, Channeling Our Andy Warhol

PV Hawk Art, Channeling Our Andy Warhol

Medium: Tempera Paint and Markers

Reason for Lesson:   Create an Andy Warhol inspired art piece, while enforce the warm/cool color concept

Preparation: 20 minutes to cut hawks and prep paint trays

Class time:  1 hour

Materials:  1 9x12 sheet of white paper per student. Paint in warm and cool colors. Markers in warm and cool colors. Hawk cut outs. Cups for water, paper towels, paper plates, paint brushes.  

Instructions to Lead Lesson:

Review the Andy Warhol Style of Art: Introduce Andy Warhol- August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga 

Some of his work:

The project:  

1. Directions; fold paper in half hotdog style and again in hamburger style. Creating 2 lines on your paper. 

2. Trace the hawk cutout in each box

3. Color in each hawk with two of the hawks being warm colors and two being cool colors. 

Remind the kids what warm and cool colors are. Use sharpies. 

4.  Paint each background of the hawk with a opposite color. If the student did a cool color hawk, the background will be warm and vice versa. 

Take your time and go slow. Use small amounts of paint so it will dry faster. 

5.  If time at end retrace the Hawks with a black sharpie if all paint is dry. 

Credit:  Kristin Wallace of the Art-A-Baloo Crew Team

Origami Bird at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge

Origami Bird at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge

Medium:  Watercolors and Origami Paper

Reason for Less:  To teach the blending and use of watercolor and teach the folding of paper "Origami" into shapes

Label: Origami and WaterColor

Prep Time:  10 minutes

Preparation prior to class:  Limits to only gathering supplies

Class TIme:  1 hour

Materials:  

• 6x12 Watercolor Paper 
• watercolors
• sharpie
• Brush and water bowl
• Origami 5x5 Paper

Lessons for Instruction:

After a recent field trip to Spokane's Turnbull Wildlife Refuge, the 4th graders were able to record the scenery of their trip while learning a new artistic craft of Origami Birds.  Origami (Japanese for Paper Folding) is a great way to end our year in art.  For those students who are inspired by this project, they may paper craft their former studies into great little shapes all summer long. :)  I found this truly simple Origami Bird at FreeKidsCrafts, where there are not only simple birds, but frogs, fish and much more.  Before students begin their assignment, they should reflect on the Habitats they studied during their field trip:

• The Aspens
• The Wetlands
• Ponderosa Pine Woodlands

• Biscuit and Swale Prairies

  
  
  
  

  Begin with the simple Origami Bird:

Then the watercolor Habitat:

Wintery Trees…Watercolor Fun

Wintery Trees…Watercolor Fun

Medium:  Watercolors and oil pastel

Reason for Less:  To teach the blending and use of watercolor and the relationship/effect between oil pastel and watercolor

Label: Line Drawing

Prep Time:  10 minutes

Preparation prior to class:  Limits to only gathering supplies

Class TIme:  1 hour

Materials:  

• 9x12 Watercolor Paper 
• watercolors
• sharpie
• Brush and water bowl
• brown oil pastel
• foam blender

Instructions to Lead Lesson:

Step 1:  Using sharpie, with freehand technique, have students draw long line branches.  Just as people, trees are not perfect…have students explore imperfections of the tree such as bent branches, even broken branches, crossed branches, etc.

Step 2:  Have students fill in the branches with lines of age and experience.  A few nods are fun to add too.

Step 3:  Color in tree with Brown Oil Pastel.  Color lightly and use blending foam to move color.

Step 4:  Now the fun begins using watercolors.   Suggest the students stick to the cool colors of night, cold and snow, or perhaps use the warm colors of the sun melting the sun and warming the soon to be spring air.  Try to encourage students to blend the colors together, not have too big of blocks of one particular color.  Like seen here...

Step 5:  When complete, students will appreciate the scape of a chilly wintery scene…or bringer days to come. 

Thank you!

Wampum Belt/Bookmark...Storytelling with Beads

Wampum Belt/Bookmark...Storytelling with Beads

Wampum Belts are traditional strings of shell beads of the Native American Indians.  Strings and belts of wampums were used for storytelling, asking for marriage, used as a gift, used to declare war or peace between two groups, used as money, and also used, instead of writing, to record treaties or historical events.  With our 4th graders learning about the Native American Indians, this creative project gives a brief example of how this Indian art is made.  Following is the step by step process for making a small Wampum Belt...but in this case only big enough to be a bookmark.

In preparation for the class, beads were divided into separate bags...and in this case, each student received 5 colors, 20 beads of each color, with 100 beads total for the project.  Prior to weaving the project, each student laid out their design on a design sheet first.

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Then prepare the loom.  Use ridge 2" by 12" cardboard, make slits on both sides to help hold the weaved yarn.  I also put a "start" marker on the loom so that the student would start the bead string in a spot for easy tie-off when complete.

Tape off tail in the back...

Wind yarn through slits and wrap around loom...

Secure with tape on backside...

Tie on loom string, the working string at start position...

Secure tail of this string with masking tape on back.  String should be plenty long to be able to tie off when beading is complete...

Start stringing beads.  Start with the bottom bead at row one...

Push beads down needle of thread and place under loom strings, EXCEPT for the bottom string...the needle should be over the bottom string like shown below.

Pull though.  Each bead should be separated by a string...

Then, pull needle though beads to secure.  Notice how the exposed needle is over the red thread.

Continue through the entire pattern of bead.  Again, starting for the bottom bead on the next row...

After stringing the beads, bottom rows will appear like this...

Top rows like this...

After rows are complete, wrap working string under loom strings and tie through loop as shown...

Tie off 2 or 3 times to ensure secured string.

When complete, will look like this...

Remember when you tied off the tail of the working string?  Unfasten the working strings tail and tie-off the other end.

Pull working string under loom as shown...

Pull the end of the string through loop and pull tight...

Will look like this when complete.  Repeat 2 or 3 times to ensure tight secure.

Lastly, cut off yarn at both ends of the loom, like shown...

When project is complete, Wampum Belt will look like the design student prepped on design sheet

These turned out really colorful and fun!