Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists: Van Gogh's Sunflowers: 1st grade paintings

Monday, December 13, 2010

Van Gogh's Sunflowers: 1st grade paintings

Dolvin first graders used Van Gogh's paintings to learn the difference between portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. Our symmetrical vases overlap the table, creating space. The flowers are in different stages of maturity and are seen from different points of view. I know many moms who will be glad to get this one in a frame when our portfolios go home!

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KellyApril 29, 2011 at 2:31 PM
These came out so nice!!! i have been looking for a way to teach k-1 about this painting and have good results! i may have to try this next year!!!
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Robyn FosterFebruary 23, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Forgive me for my late comment - but I have a question. How do you avoid pencil lines showing through the tempera? I don't find them opaque enough to cover pencil lines or even other tempera. Thanks!
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Hope Hunter KnightFebruary 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Robyn, The only part we used pencil on was the vase - the rest of it we just drew with paintbrushes. We also traced over the pencil outline of the vase with paint. I showed them how to paint one part of the flower at a time - middles, then petals, then stems and leaves last. Hope that helps!
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LizOctober 10, 2020 at 9:57 AM
Super nice!
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Inspiring Artist Quotes

"I always loved art teachers because they were so bizarre. They were like the homeless people of the faculty -- all disheveled, wearing smocks, covered in paint, always digging through the garbage, looking for bottles and egg cartons and things." -Ted Alexandro

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso

"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." - Edward Hopper

"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse

"One eye sees, the other feels." - Paul Klee

"I paint life as I would like it to be." - Norman Rockwell

"The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

"From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs, but all I have done before the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy-five I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At a hundred I shall be a marvelous artist. At a hundred and ten everything I create: a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing' (Gakyo-rojin)" - Katsushika Hokusai

"Word Wall"

Elements of Design:
Line -a path made by a moving point
Shape - an area defined by its outline, geometric or organic
Form - a three-dimensional shape
Value - the lightness or darkness of an object
Color - hues on a spectrum; we use a color wheel made of primary, secondary, and intermediate colors
Texture - the way something feels or appears to feel
Space - the illusion of depth in an artwork

Figure - a body form or shape

Composition - an arrangement of lines, shapes, colors, etc. on a surface

Craftsmanship - using materials correctly and taking care in the production of a piece of art so that it is neatly presented

Studio - a room or space where an artist produces and stores work

Portfolio - a collection of work, or the container that holds the collection

Positive Space - the shape or object that is the focus

Negative space - the area around the positive space; also "leftover" space or background

Media - materials used to make art. Most of our art in the classroom is one, or a combination of, the following:

Drawing: pencil, ink, pastel, chalk, charcoal

Painting: tempera or watercolor

Printmaking: creating multiple images by transferring ink from a stamp or plate

Collage: shapes that are cut and pasted to a surface

Sculpture: clay, metal, cardboard, or other 3-D materials

Textiles: stitchery or weaving

Technology: photography, computer art

Styles of art -

Realistic: objects look as they do in real life

Abstract: objects are based on real-life, but are changed artistically

Nonobjective: a design; no recognizable objects are found other than lines, shapes, colors, etc.

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Van Gogh's Sunflowers: 1st grade paintings

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