Chihuly Glass Bowls!

student fill their 'glass' sheet with as much color and pattern as possible to show off their skills

2nd graders brushed up on the glass blowing artist Dale Chihuly (one of Miss Oetken's faves!). We watched a YouTube clip of Dale Chihuly explaining how he makes his art and watched the process through a tour of his art forms and 'hot shop' glass studio. We ooo-ed and ahhh-ed when looking at all of his different glass forms. Some classes got to learn all about the inside of the hot shop and the terminology of the tools through a interactive website http://www.childrensmuseum.org/themuseum/fireworks_ofglass/games_35.htm 

The link above is also under ART GAMES heading on my homepage. Then we talked about how important color, texture and pattern is in his sculptures and glass making. We concentrated on Chihuly's bowls with using Sharpie permanent markers on a sheet of clear Graphix shrink film. We put a piece of white paper underneath so if we colored then it wouldn't get on the table. When student were finished they put their "sheet of glass" on the shelf.

Dale Chihuly bowls



Dale Chihuly glass blown sculpture





Dale Chihuly glass chandelier



Students then could use the paper under their drawing as free draw paper to design a Chihuly glass form of their own and color it in. Some made chandeliers and some made sculptures!



Students could also do a fun worksheet where they were asked to design a glass Chihuly bowl, chandelier, or sculpture of their own and color it in. There was also a Chihuly word search with class vocabulary words.

students filling space with Sharpie marker pattern



after taking the Chihuly bowls out of the oven

http://artasticartists.blogspot.com/search/label/Chihuly I have posted about this same project in my labels. Just click the link to see the post.

student work

Patterned Egyptian Sarcophagus with Tooling Foil Cartouche

3rd graders are learning about pattern in Egyptian art by making their own patterned sarcophagus. We looked at different Egyptian artifacts such as a Pharoah's death mask, sarcophagus, and neck piece and pointed out pattern in all of them. We talked about what exactly is pattern. Now we're ready to focus on our sarcophagus! First we traced the shape & drew the details with pencil. Then traced all of our pencil lines with construction paper crayons (really bright on dark paper!). After that we filled in with many lines of pattern going horrizontal with LOTS of color! Now we're ready for our cartouche!





Using the heiroglyphic alphabet, students took small rectangles of gold tooling foil, and make a cartouche. Using a pencil and keeping the foil ontop of their alphabet worksheet, they push into the foil to draw the symbols for each letter of their name. Then place a ring around it because "cartouche" mean to "encircle". We talked about how your "ka", or spirit, back in Egyptian times, couldn't go onto the afterlife without having a cartouche on the sarcophagus.



coloring in their cartouche with sharpies

finishing line pattern

using pencil to push into gold tooling foil using heiroglyphics alphabet to create a name cartouche

Making a Egyptian neckpiece to wear when finished with the project. Students used Egyptian
books to find items to draw and decorate it

Laurel Burch Cool or Warm Cats and exploration in Line and Pattern

Miss Oetken's cool and warm Laurel Burch cats

2nd graders are exploring a new artist, Laurel Burch. She is famous for her bright colored and patterned cats. You can find just about anything with Laurel Burch on from bags, to socks, mugs, to earrings! Not only did we learn about her signature look of cats, but we also learned about the cool and warm color families. Cool colors remind you of water and ice (blues, greens, purples) and warm colors remind you of fire or heat (reds, pinks, yellows, oranges).

 Students were asked to pick a color family (cool or warm). Then use a head tracer and trace around with a white construction paper crayon. Then draw two lines for the body and a curly tail. I told students to raise their hand when they had these steps done. Then I walked through the steps of making the signature Laurel Burch cat face.

After the white outline, then students can use metallic crayons and construction paper crayons to fill in the cat with different types of line and pattern. The Crayola metallic and construction paper colored crayons look amazing on the black paper when colored in completely and the students loved the effect!





Romero BRITTO! Adventures in COLOR and PATTERN!





 Romero Britto is a modern up and coming artist & painter becoming more of a household name in the artworld more and more everyday! Infact, I was just watching tv (reality tv that is, I know sad:/ )and low and behold, I spy with my little eye a Britto print in the background hanging on their wall!!! My friend Becky, another art teacher told me a while back to check him out....very intriguing style! He combines pop art, cubism like style, along with graffitti like interpretation! He's a Andy Warhol, Keith Harring, and Picasso all rolled in one! Based on his artwork you can definately pick out bold characteristics and elements and principles of art. Bold line. Bright colors and combinations of color. Pattern. All things my students should know!

  

                                    

I had my students look at the visuals projected on my white board and pic whatever subject they wanted. Then we talked about what we saw in the famous paintings. Color. And he also divided the drawing into sections with bold line and in each section there is a different color with a colored pattern. So I told me students to do the same. Draw one of the subjects. Divide into sections with pencil (so you can make changes and erase!). Then use crayon to trace over pattern only. And for stripes, do every other because....we're going to do watercolor over the large areas! It then becomes a watercolor crayon resist. Then, when dry, use black acrylic paint to make bold lines where you sectioned off the areas of pattern and color with pencil previously. Voila! Britto like paintings!

Romero Britto famous paintings and prints below

My students are just starting their Brittos, but I can't wait to show the finished products!

 Look at the great start they have! (look below!)

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heart with wings

heart with wings

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cat

butterfly

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