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Turning Your Computer into an Easel

Submitted by: Jennifer Wagner
UNIT: Computer Graphics - Lessons Using Kid Pix®
Grade Level: Kindergarten/Elementary

 

Introduction:

Using the following lessons, the teacher will be introducing artists to the students and then allowing the students to create their version of the artists original work.

 

Needed:

Activity: Artist #1 - Mondrian

Introduction: (Pieter Cornelis Mondrian 1872-1944)

 

Painting Title: Composition with Red Blue Yellow.

Since the early 1900's, abstract artists have created different ways of illustrating reality. Piet Mondrian was one such artist. Mondrian created compositions that avoided any suggestions of the world as we see it. He used vertical and horizontal black lines that framed blocks of color, usually red, blue, yellow, and white. He used balance that portrayed equilibrium and harmony.

 

kidpixMondrian was born on March 7, 1872 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. While studying at Amsterdam Academy in the late 1800's, he began his journey toward the abstract. Initially he created landscapes but quickly moved to abstraction. When he moved to Paris in 1912, he was exposed to Cubism. He brought this knowledge back to The Netherlands and founded De Stijl,. a magazine of the arts. This magazine influenced many European painters, designers and architects.

 

Mondrian called his new abstract style Neoplasticism. His paintings from 1920 until his death represented this style and have unique titles such as ‘Composition with Red Blue Yellow.’ painted in 1926, and Composition No. 2. (1936). Mondrian moved to London in 1938 and finally New York City on 1940 where he died on February 1, 1944.

 

Like Van Gogh, Mondrian's painting didn't sell before his death. His final painting, called ‘Victory Boogie Woogie’, was still unfinished when he died. It wasn't until the late 40's that his work began to earn some respect among critics and began selling. ''Composition in a Square With Red Corner,'' sold for $5.06 million at an auction by Sotheby's in 1986. Mondrian's 'Composition' is expected to sell for at least $30 million at an auction on June 23rd, 2014 at Sotheby's.

 

KID PIX ASSIGNMENT:

Step 1: Choose the line tool

Step 2: Choose the color black

Step 3: Choose the third of the fourth thickness for your line (bottom tool bar)

Step 4: Draw 5 or 6 vertical lines and 5 or 6 horizontal lines.

Step 5: Using the Artgum Erasers., erase some of the connector lines so that you are left with open white spaces.

Step 6: Using your bucket tool, use the colors BLACK, RED, YELLOW, or BLUE to fill in your spaces. Be sure to leave some white areas.

Step 7: Save your artwork as Mondrian (add your computer #) .bmp (or PICT, JPG, or GIF for the Mac).

Step 8: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

Web links on Mondrian:

Books on Mondrian:

 

Van Gogh to Mondrian: Modern Art from the Kroller-Muller Museum. - This illustrated book features highlights from the Museum’s collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century art, including more than a score of works by Vincent van Gogh.

 

Mondrian. - Often considered wholly non-representational, paintings such as Broadway Boogie-Woogie were directly inspired by his experience of life, in this case the dynamism and grid-like street plan of New York City. By examining Mondrian's working process, through his drawings, studies and finished paintings, John Milner explores the tension between the disciplined compositions and their subject-matter.

 

kidpix Activity: Artist #2 - VAN GOGH

Introduction: (Gogh, Vincent Willem van (1853-1890)

 

Painting Title: Starry Night.

Vincent Van Gogh, born March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, was a post-impressionist painter who painted in what later became known as Expressionism. Although there was some sense of realism in his paintings, he had emotional spontaneity when painting. He was a moody man and his paintings frequently reflected his moods. Unfortunately his moods also stood in the way of his success. He went through many jobs during his life; an art gallery salesman, a theological student, a French tutor, and a miner evangelist in Belgium.

 

A well known painter, Paul Gauguin, joined up with him after meeting in Paris. They were roommates only two months before Van Gogh's temperament became violent and he threatened Gauguin with a razor. Gauguin was forced to leave. Later Vincent cut off his ear and spent some time in a mental hospital and later the asylum of Saint-Rémy.

 

He continued painting between episodes of madness. One of his doctors, Dr. Gachet, was sympathetic and was very helpful to Van Gogh. He later painted his doctor (Portrait of Dr. Gachet,. 1890, Louvre, Paris). While spending some time in Auvers, he completed his final work, Crows in the Wheatfields (1890, Rijksmuseum). Shortly after completion of the work, he shot himself on July 27, 1890, and died two days later. See Van Gogh's paintings up close on the Google Art Project.

 

KID PIX ASSIGNMENT:

This assignment has Two Parts

PART 1 - Making the Background of Starry Night

Step 1: Choose the rectangle tool - You will be filling the page up with different colored rectangles

Step 2: You will choose blues, greens, yellows, blacks, whites, purples

Step 3: Draw rectangles... They may overlap. The color you use most often will be the prominent color. Keep this in mind!

Step 4: Once you have filled your page with rectangles, choose the mixer tool and mix up your picture. It usually takes at least 10 mixes to get the background effect you wish.

Step 5 - Save your picture as Starry Night (add your computer #) .bmp

PART II - Making the Foreground

Step 1 - Using your pencil tool... choose a dark color and draw a line near the bottom of your background. (This will become your ground area)

Step 2 - Using the Paintbrush tool... look for the TREE tool. Choose the black color and draw several trees on your picture. (They will appear as in silhouette)

Step 3 - Using the circle tool... Choose a yellowish color... draw the moon

Step 4 - Using the pencil tool - You can add dimension to your moon and also add swirls and stars

Step 5 - Save your work again. (You will need to click on YES, you wish to overwrite the file)

Step 6: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

Web links on Vincent Van Gogh

Artcylopedia's choices- some of mine are below:

How Van Gogh Made His Mark - interactive exploration of four landscape drawings introducing the creative genius of Van Gogh the draftsman. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Van Gogh Gallery - Comprehensive site of Vincent Van Gogh's work. Site assembled by David Brooks of Toronto, Canada.
Van Gogh's Letter Sketches - 133 Sketches are listed
Van Gogh and Gauguin Exhibit -- Enter the experience (used Flash)
Van Gogh and Gauguin - The Studio in the South Learn about both artists and view the slide show. Art Institute of Chicago
Van Gogh - Carol Gerten's Fine Art. Click on small thumbnail images. Link to biography.
Van Gogh Museum
Vincent Art Gallery. This site has quality reproductions for sale - many images (Click Gallery). Artists who inspired him
Vincent Van Gogh - Mark Harden's Artchive has biography and links to quality images.
Van Gogh at Ettens: Sketches and Billboards ThinkQuest site- created by students for students. (Site is temporarily off line - check back later)
Van Gogh's Van Gogh's Virtual Tour National Gallery of Art.

 

Music

Starry Starry Night by Don McLean. - MP3 Download of the famous hit.

Van Gogh. - Songs in the Key of Art: Volume I, by Greg Percy.

 

Books on Van Gogh

Van Gogh to Mondrian: Modern Art from the Kroller-Muller Museum. - This illustrated book features highlights from the Museum’s collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century art, including more than a score of works by Vincent van Gogh.

Touch the Art: Make Van Gogh's Bed. - Tidy-up Van Gogh’s bed. Touch the flowers in Monet’s The Water Lily Pond: Green Harmony. Pull on the tulle tutu of Degas’ Prima Ballerina. Or cuddle the gauzy netting over Berthe Morisot’s The Cradle. Let your fingers do the walking through the Impressionist movement.

Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars. - The author explores the ups and downs of van Gogh's life and art in this colorful report, featuring Brad's funny cartoons alongside reproductions of classic paintings like Starry Night.

Van Gogh (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists). - For grades 2-4. Presents a biography of Van Gogh.

 

Activity: Artist #3 - Picasso

Introduction: (Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y (1881-1973)

Painting Title: Large Heads- [Although the submitter of this lesson mentioned using this painting, an image of the painting is almost impossible to find. You can use images of similar paintings such as Tete D'une Femme Lisant,. Girl With Red Beret,. and The Weeping Woman.].

 

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, ceramicist, and printmaker. Although he was born in Spain, he spent most of his adult life in France. His father, José Ruiz Blasco, was an art teacher and painter. Until 1898 he signed his name using his father's name, Ruiz, and his last name as his mother's maiden name, Picasso. Picasso showed his artistic talent when he was 10 years old. His first word as a child was the Spanish word for pencil, lápiz (Spoken as "piz"). His father felt that Picasso surpassed him in his artistic ability at the age of 13.

 

The child prodigy continued to impress when he was admitted to the prestigious Barcelona's School of Fine Arts at the age of 13. His father rented an art studio for Picasso close to their home so he could review the progress of his son. Picasso created his first masterpiece, "Science and Charity" (1897, Picasso Museum, Barcelona) at the age of 16, depicting a doctor, a nun, and a child at a sick woman's bedside, won a gold medal. Soon, Picasso enrolled in Madrid's Royal Academy of San Fernando. While in Madrid, he was exposed to painters who influenced his work, El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, and Francisco Zurbarán.

 

Picasso's work changed drastically as he aged and was influenced by others. The work had changed so much that art critics call his art periods by title. The BLUE period. was the time that he used many shades of blue in his art. The ROSE period. featured many rose and reds. His Protocubism was marked with the images of African, Greek and Iberian art. Picasso also dabbled in sculpture. He created cubistic figures and shapes that were unusual at the time. His work can best be described as seeing a sculpture with different angles from one position. One of his best known sculptures didn't have a name. It was commissioned in 1963 and dedicated on August 15, 1967, in Daley Plaza. Chicagoans simply call it "The Picasso."

 

Picasso wasn't only the greatest artist of the 20th century, he was also the most prolific. He created over 20,000 works of art. Picasso died in Mougins, France on April 8, 1973.

 

KID PIX PICASSO ASSIGNMENT #1:

This first assignment includes scanning the Picasso's clown

Step 1: Open the file entitled Picasso clown

Step 2: Using your bucket, color in the clown.

Step 3: Using the typewriter tool, type in Picasso's Clown by (insert your name)

Step 4: Save as Clown (add your computer #) .bmp

Step 5: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

KID PIX PICASSO ASSIGNMENT #2:

Before beginning this assignment, all students need to view "Main Aux Fleur" (available in previously mentioned book)

Step 1: Using the line tool, draw your stems

Step 2a: Use the stamp tool, and control/shift to add flowers to your stem

OR

Step 2b: Using the pencil tool, draw your own flowers and fill them in using the bucket tool

Step 3: Using the pencil tool, add your leaves

Step 4: Save as MAF (add your computer #) .bmp

Step 5: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

KID PIX PICASSO ASSIGNMENT #3:

Remind students of CUBISM. Students will need to view different pictures of Picasso's cubism.

Remind students that things are exaggerated!

Step 1: Using the circle tool, draw an oval.

Step 2: Using the stamp tool, choose an eye stamp and make it one size bigger by clicking on Control... stamp where you wish.

Step 3: Using the stamp tool, choose another eye stamp, make it two sizes bigger (control/shift) and stamp where you wish

Step 4: Continue adding to the face by using stamps. Change sizes to show cubism. You may place them where you wish.

Step 5: Use the paintbrush tool to create the hair. Use the two tone paintbrush tool to give dimension.

Step 4: Save as Cubism (add your computer #) .bmp

Step 5: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

Web links on Picasso:

  • On-line Picasso Project—Chronology, biography, and lots of images of Picasso's paintings. This site has many photographs of Picasso throughout his life. Spend some time on this site to find out all the things about Picasso you always wanted to know. Thumbnails of images on home page take a while to load. But be careful, you could get lost for hours!

  • Pablo Picasso: Online Link to more of these quality sites recommended by Artcyclopedia.

  • National Gallery of Art- the Early Years The National Gallery provide an on-line exhibit of some of Picasso's earliest works--showing his genius at a very young age. This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Picasso's art before cubism. See Teacher's Guide for lesson plans and activities.

  • Pablo Picasso's - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Conserving a Masterpiece - Web site from Museum of Modern Art (NY) goes into the conservation process of this work.

  • Carol Gerten's Fine Art- You will find two pages scanned images of some of Picasso's most important works as well as a biography from Microsoft Encarta® (Block ads with FireFox or Mozilla browser)

  • Mark Harden Artchive: You will also find authoritative information about the styles of Picasso's painting/work. Links to images found on the Web for each time period in Picasso's life (block ads with FireFox or Mozilla Browser)

  • Saper Gallery's Picasso pate With many images and photographs of the artist.

  • Picasso Exhibition: Masterworks Fine Art Five pages of images. Includes etchings lithographs and linocuts - Fine art prints.

  • Pablo Picasso: The Official Site (in French, English and Spanish). Older students (middle school and above) may find this site interesting. Print is very small for the biographical information.

  • Treasures of the World: Guernica PBS site. "It is modern art's most powerful antiwar statement... created by the twentieth century's most well-known and least understood artist."

  • Olga's Gallery - Six pages of images. Includes many self portraits (one very early portrait from 1896) and biography with links to more information. 260 images - not all suitable for children. This site has pop-up ads in Internet Explorer - Mozilla blocks the ads.

  • Guernica Cover Up News article. The tapestry reproduction, which hangs outside the entrance to the UN Security Council, was initially covered on Jan. 27. A UN spokesman said a blue curtain provided a better background for cameras covering news conferences and speeches.

Books

Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules. - Simon Packard didn't always want to do his artist report on Pablo Picasso, but after his twin brother Stephen does a report on Monet-Simon's favorite artist-Simon chooses Picasso. Throughout, there are reproductions of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces as well as Simon's own drawings, and nuggets of info that will appeal to kids.

When Pigasso Met Mootisse. - Grades 2-4: Based loosely on the real-life relationship between Picasso and Matisse, Laden's tale is a tribute to these exceptional talents and to the concept of accepting the ideas of others. The acrylic paintings capture the duo's volatile temperaments and different artistic styles; they are fun to look at and reinforce the lighthearted mood of the text.

Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail. - Shy Sylvette is astonished when Pablo Picasso, the world-famous artist, chooses her to be his model. As the pictures become larger and more extraordinary, "The Girl with a Ponytail" becomes famous too. This true story of developing self-confidence was told to Laurence Anholt by Sylvette herself.

 

Activity: Artist #4 - Georgia O'Keeffe

Introduction: (O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986)

Painting Title: Red Canna. (this link is for a poster of Red Canna)

Georgia O'Keeffe was an American painter whose style has been the subject of debate. Some say she was a Hyperrealist. Others call her an Abstract Expressionist. Still others call it American Modernism. One thing that can be agreed upon is that her favorite subject matter was flowers.

 

O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. She first studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the Art Students League of New York. She later became an art instructor in Texas for five years. Georgia O'Keeffe first got her break when an art gallery director (who she later married) took interest in her drawings and paintings. Her first show was called "291" in her future husband's gallery. her work was shown annually in Stieglitz's galleries until her husband died in 1946.

 

Following her husband's death, she moved to New Mexico in 1949. It was there where she began painting what she is the most famous for; Desert flowers with single blossoms and other scenery such as cow's skulls were incorporated into her paintings. Her paintings have a thin, clear coloring with bold patterns that are abstract in nature. Her flower paintings such as Black Iris. (1926, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) have details that are so enlarged that they are unfamiliar until seen at a distance.

 

During the 1950's she produced a series of paintings of clouds called "Above the Clouds."These paintings were inspired by what she saw out of the windows of airplanes. Perhaps her largest work came from that series, "Sky Above the Clouds" (1965, collection of the artist), which is 7.3 m (24 ft) wide. In her twilight years when she was in poor health and her eyesight deteriorating, she moved to Santa Fe close to a medical facility. O'Keeffe completed he final watercolor and charcoal painting, "The Beyond," in 1972.

 

KID PIX ASSIGNMENT:

Step 1: Choose the pencil tool. Draw a line (about ½" from the center) vertical from the top to the bottom. This does not need to be straight. This will be your focal point.

Step 2: Using the line as your starting point, draw several lines in either direction to create your petals. You may put lines within lines. Remember to add some jagged lines to create dimension.

Step 3: Begin with the color you wish to be your primary color. Start at the bottom, your color should become a bit lighter as you work your way up.

Step 4: Choose your second color, again, work your way up.

Step 5: Choose your highlighting color. This color will be used the least but show in all areas. You may wish to lighten as you get higher.

Step 6: Use your pencil tool to go over certain lines to give them more definition.

Step 5 - Save your picture as Flower (add your computer #) .bmp

Step 6: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

Web links on O'Keeffe

Books

Georgia O'Keeffe (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists). - Grade 1-2: An addition to the already abundant supply of books about O'Keeffe. Text is very simply written and printed in a large, open typeface. Readers are told a bit about her childhood and adult life.

Georgia O'Keeffe (Artists in Their World). - A series that uncovers the life and times of Georgia O'Keeffe. It includes easy to follow chronological structure illustrated with colour and black and white contemporary photographs. It also features detailed timelines for quick reference, plus museum and gallery information.

Georgia O'Keeffe: In The West. - In chronological order, the O'Keeffe paintings that were inspired by the landscape of New Mexico are reproduced in this oversize volume.

 

Activity: Artist #5 - SEURAT

Introduction: (Seurat, Georges 1859 -1891),

Painting Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

 

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

 

Georges Seurat was a French painter who lead the movement, Neo-Impressionism. His most famous painting is above. In his teens, Seurat studied art at the Ecole Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin. In 1878, he studied art at École des Beaux-Arts. He left the school and his education in 1879 when he entered the military service.

 

A year later he shared a studio with friend Aman-Jean while renting an apartment. You can see this apartment on Google Streetview. For two years he spent focusing on monochrome painting. His first major painting, Bathers at Asnières, was created in 1883. He joined up with a Paris salon, Groupe des Artistes Indépendants, but later he and other artists became disappointed and then formed their own group, Société des Artistes Indépendants. It is while with this society that he refined pointillism.

 

It took him two years to complete Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. beginning in 1884. The style he fathered, pointillism, Blended colors optically, rather than having the colors physically blended on the canvas. Seurat died in Paris on March 29, 1891 at the age of 31. His cause of death is unknown but because his son died two weeks later from the same illness, it is assumed it may have been a form of meningitis or diphtheria. His final painting, "The Circus," was left unfinished.

 

See an art lesson and student work with this style here. You can also play around with the "Pointillator" here.

 

KID PIX ASSIGNMENT:

Step 1: Choose the pencil tool

Step 2: By using the pencil, you will make dots to make your tree trunk. Do not place the dots too closely so that they are connected. Each dot needs to be separate.

Step 3: Use either a darker color, or a lighter color to create either a highlight or a shadow on your tree trunk. Change the size of the pencil down and put dots near the first dots you made. These can be overlapping HOWEVER, do not cover your first dots.

Step 4: Next you will draw the leaves on the tree. Your bigger dots will be your primary color. Use smaller dots to add contrast, shadow or highlights. If you choose to add apples... these can be placed OVER your first dots.

Step 5: Continue with your sky in shades of blues/grays and also add some clouds. Remembering to not overlap your first dots. (Highlights and contrasts may overlap a bit)

Step 6: Add your sun!

Step 7 - Save your picture as Seurat (add your computer #) .bmp

Step 8: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

Web links on Seurat

Books

Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte. - A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884, an extensive landscape peopled with over forty figures, took the artist almost two years to complete. This sumptuous book, created to accompany a major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, provides a fascinating, in-depth examination of the gestation, execution, and influence of Seurat's masterpiece.

Georges Seurat (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists). - This book provides the key biographical details of Seurat's life, but it is the development of his peculiar painting style that Venezia emphasize more. So the art history lesson here is what young readers will take away from reading this book. There are sixteen drawings and paintings representing the entire course of Seurat's career

Georges Seurat: The Master of Pointillism (Basic Art). - Georges Seurat died in 1891, aged only 32, and yet in a career that lasted little more than a decade he revolutionized technique in painting, spearheaded a new movement, Neo-impressionism, and bought a degree of scientific rigour to his investigations of colour that would prove profoundly influential well into the 20th century.

 

Activity: Artist #6 - MATISSE

Introduction: (Matisse, Henri 1869 -1954),

Painting Title: Sea Beasts by Henri Matisse.

Henri Matisse (His full name is Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse) was born on New Year's Eve in 1869. He is another artist who changed his art style during his lifetime. In his early years, his work was labeled Fauvism. In the 1920's he was more of a classical French painter. Initially, he didn't intend on being a professional painter. He went to school to study law in Paris and worked as a court administrator. He first began painting in 1889 at the age of 20 when his mother bought him art supplies to use while recovering from appendicitis. He fell in love with painting at that point.

 

In 1891, he went back to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian. Initially he painted still lifes and landscapes in a traditional style but was influenced by other contemporary artists including Édouard Manet and Nicolas Poussin. Matisse admired Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin most of all. Australian painter John Peter Russell introduced him to Impressionism. Matisse's style then changed drastically. He attributed his use of color to Russell. Critics label his work at this point as Divisionism and Neo-Impressionism. In 1900 he began what became Fauvism, along with artist André Derain. The Fauvism movement fizzled out in 1908.

 

After the Fauvism movement died, Matisse's "Woman With Hat." sold. This raised his spirits because his exhibit at the Salon d'Automne was not a success and garnered a lot of criticism from the critics. He continued to struggle financially because his work had mixed success. After visiting Morocco, his style changed once again and included much more boldness. A good example of this style is with the painting, L'Atelier Rouge.

 

In 1906, Matisse met Picasso and the two became lifelong friends and even exhibited their work together. Matisse returned to Morocco and painted 24 paintings before returning to France. Following colostomy surgery, he began using a wheel chair to get around. He also hired a personal assistant who helped care for him, a Russian woman, Lydia Delektorskaya. As his health continued to decline, she and other assistants created large collages from cut paper under Matisse's direction. Some art from that period includes Drawing with Scissors. and the Blue N_ude series. He later hired a nursing student named Monique Bourgeois, who cared for him. She herself was an amateur artist and a good friendship developed. She later modeled for him.

 

In his twilight years, he spent four years designing the interior and decorating the glass windows in the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence. He also created one of his most famous collages, The Snail. in 1953. His final work was a design for a stained glass window installed in the Union Church of Pocantico Hills in New York City. This work was commissioned by David Rockefeller. When Matisse died from a heart attack at the age of 84 in 1954, a small scale model of the window was found on the wall of his bedroom. The window was completed from this model posthumously and Marc Chagall added additional window designs. Matisse's influence was felt by his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Most are active artists.

 

You can find Matisse inspired art lessons on IAD. Enter his name in a search on this site and the lessons will come up.

 

Matisse pic

KID PIX ASSIGNMENT #1:

Step 1: Choose the rectangle tool. You will draw two vertical rectangles side by side with about 1 inch between the two.

Step 2: Your two rectangles will blend into each together with color but not necessarily with pattern.

Step 3: Begin with your background color... choose a darker color for the left with a lighter contrasting color for the right.

Step 4: Using the pencil tool, rectangle tool, or circle tool... draw some different shapes, patterns on each side. Looking at the example, you might want to add some waves and some spirals.

Step 5: Using the bucket, begin to fill in your areas. Using darker colors on the left, lighter on the right... but have one or two colors that are in both rectangles.

Step 6: Using the pencil tool, choose a dark color to add some slashes or waves on the top of your picture.

Step 7 - Save your picture as Matisse (add your computer #) .bmp

Step 8: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

KID PIX ASSIGNMENT #2: (Christmas Eve)

Step 1: Using your rectangle tool, draw an empty rectangle to cover about 3/4 of your page vertically.

Step 2: Using your circle tool, add a circle to the top of the rectangle to make the top of the window.

Step 3: Using the Magic Rub Erasers., erase the lines in the center to create an open stain glass window.

Step 4: Using the line tool, divide your stain glass window into sections.

Step 5: Draw a design on the left side of your stain glass window in one section.

Step 6: Using the truck tool, draw a box around your design, click on Edit Copy... move your truck to the opposite area and click Edit Paste. (You should get a copy of your design)

Step 7: Continue with designs on the left and copy to the right.

Step 8: Using the rectangle tool, you will add a box/rectangle that runs through the center of your artwork. Using your pencil, draw a design and then fill it in with the bucket. THIS WILL NOT BE SYMMETRICAL.

Step 9: Using either WHITE or YELLOW, draw some designs over the top of your design to add contrast.

Step 7 - Save your picture as Matisse2 (add your computer #) .bmp

Step 8: Print out a copy of your work for your personal copy and also one for a teacher copy.

 

Web links on Matisse:

  • Matisse for Kids - Baltimore Museum of Art. Excellent site for students to explore. (Archive)

  • Henri Matisse Online - Artcylcopedia

  • Henri Matisse - Web Museum - brief overview of work of Matisse

  • Henri Matisse and the Fauves Selected images - from the National Gallery of Art.

  • Musee Matisse de Nice English site is not finished - click on English - then view paintings, sculptures and more in French - click on les oeuvres.

  • Henri Matisse - Carol Gerten Fine Arts - 2 pages of images and brief biography - preview before using with students.

  • Henri Matisse - Olga's Gallery - Good source for teachers to find images (158 total - preview before using with students).

  • Henri Matisse - Mark Hardin's Artchive - biography and links to images online. Several images with music theme. Has pop-under ads now in Internet Explorer.

  • Matisse & Picasso Companion site for documentary portrait video. Site has biographies, timelines and selected images.

Books

Matisse the King of Color (Anholt's Artists Books for Children Series). - This true account of Matisse and the chapel at Venice, in southern France, is the main focus of Laurence Anholt’s newest children’s story. Anholt’s illustrations faithfully reproduce many of Matisse’s wonderful artworks in this storybook.

Color Your Own Matisse Paintings. - A compilation of 30 carefully drawn black-and-white reproductions of Matisse’s works. Selections include Blue Nude I, La Danse, Icarus, The Circus, The Sword Swallower, The Thousand and One Nights, The Moorish Café, and many others. Captions.

Henri Matisse: Drawing With Scissors, Masterpieces from the Late Years. - The genius of Henri Matisse is captured in this collection of his paper cut-outs, his primary form of expression in the latter part of his career. As Michel Anthonioz, former director of the Musée d'Orsay, writes, the cut-outs allowed Matisse to "bridge the gap between his paintings and drawings, between colour and line."

 

Additional Information To Assist You

Helpful Hints

  1. Use different kinds of paper to print on.

  2. Avery for Kids has special kid labels, and also has software to help make stickers (which is included free with the labels)!

  3. Use overhead transparencies to make sun-catchers

  4. Use t-shirt paper to make a great new t-shirt! Or also to make quilts!

  5. Use colored paper and let the kids draw designs in white! These look great when printed out

  6. Let the students do ½ of the artwork on the computer and then add to the printed copy with Chalk, paint, glue, collage... to use different mediums of art.

  7. Play museum... let the students walk around the lab and view each others work. In addition to this... have critique cards which they fill out and you pass out to the students later. They have to say something positive about another student's artwork!

  8. Display the artwork. Laminate the artwork for the students. (For some reason, they eat this up!) And if you have a webpage, get parental permission and put the pictures up!!!






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