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Van Gogh's Starry Night Named World's Most Popular Oil Painting of the Decade
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Colored Pencil, Crayon, Marker Ideas from Faber-Castell
A great resource for art project ideas is on the Faber-Castell web site. Browse through the many techniques for using colored pencils, wax crayons, oil pastels, paint and markers. Something there has to spark an idea for an art project.
Ideas for Drawing and Colouring with Pencils, Crayons, and Paint
Merging colours is one idea on the Faber-Castell web site that I thought would work for an art appreciation lesson.
Merging colours
Fibre-tip pens can be used in many of the same ways as colour pencils, and they are also useful for learning about secondary colours. For this we use a pointillist technique, with lots of little dots. Try it with just the primary colours red, blue, and yellow. If you stand back, then the individual dots are no longer perceived as such, but merge in the eye to form secondary colours. This effect is also used in colour printing, as a magnifying glass will show. Oranges coloured with red and yellow dots appear orange, yellow-and-blue leaves look green. This technique is very suitable for pictures of natural objects, sketched out beforehand with a soft pencil or a pale yellow fibre-tip pen.
History of the Pencil
Ever wonder how the pencil came to be? Faber-Castell has a great page on their web site titled Pencil Discovery and Innovation.
The beginning of the pencil is explained here from the Faber-Castell web site:
The origins of today's pencil goes back to 1565, when a grey-black glistending substance was found in Borrowdale, in the Cumberland hills of England. It was said to be a 'lead' coloured material, greasy to touch an quick to stain the fingers. This substance became known as black-lead, an was found to be more convenient for a writing an drawing than pen and ink, as it's marks could be easily rubbed out.
This would be paired great with an Escher print:
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Franz Marc in 3 Dimensions
Love Franz Marc. This short video would be great to show after telling the students about Marc. Follow with a discussion of the elements and Marc's art.
Music is beautiful also.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Jackson Pollock in the Classroom
Here's a fantastic blog post from last week by my fellow INK: Interesting Nonfiction for Kids mate, Jan Greenberg. My favorite art appreciation presentations have been when I read a book to a class, followed by a discussion about the artist, his or her art, and the book... and the author. At first I was surprised that reading an art-related picture book worked for all class grades. Kindergartners to Fifth Graders listened intently, asked insightful questions, and all participated in an exciting discussion about the artist. Guess what's what makes a well-written picture book.
Action Jackson in the Classroom
Jan's discussion questions work well for discussing any artwork.
Action Jackson
by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.
Roaring Brook Press 2002
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