Time Period: 3-4, 30-minute class periods
Standards:
Standard 1: Creating, performing and participating in the arts
Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials and resources
Standard 3: Responding to and analyzing works of art
Materials:
Practice paper, 9” x 12” Paper, Assorted Colored Paper 6”x18”, Glue, Crayons, Pencils, Scissors, Pipe Cleaners, Oak Tag 12”x18”, Table and Vase Stencils
Instructional Objective:
Students will discover patterns, which can be created using line and shape, and apply this knowledge and skill to create a still life image, focusing on the background, which will show their patterns.
Motivation:
The students will slowly piece together a still life, however they will also get to create their own patterns as the background. The more they practice making patterns, the better they get.
View artists Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh’s work on still-lifes. Matisse’s show a lot of pattern, and use Van Gogh’s to show the set up of a still-life of flowers (flowers in a vase, on a table, in front of a background).
Artist(s):
Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh
Vocabulary:
Pattern, Line, Shape, Design, Still Life, Background, Stencil
Delivery of Instruction:
Step 1:
· Discuss patterns with students. Show examples on the board.
· Have the students help you create different patterns. Show an example that is NOT a pattern, just to make sure they understand.
· Briefly review lines and shapes and demonstrate to the students how these can help them create their patterns.
Step 2:
· Introduce “still-life”. Show examples of still-life paintings by Matisse and Van Gogh. Discuss the elements that are needed to create these images (object, surface, background.)
Step 3:
· Have students fold paper into fours and in each square they are to practice making different patterns. The more original the better. These will be what they choose from to design their background patterns for their still life.
Step 4:
· Give each student two strips of different colored paper. On each paper, they are to create a pattern, preferably one that they practice on their scrap paper.
· Once those are completed, the students will glue them both to an oak tag paper. This will become their background.
Step 5:
· Using stencil, the students will create a vase and a table. On the same paper they will draw four flowers. Before cutting them out, they must be colored in using lots of color and patterns.
· Once this is all complete, the students will cut out their table and vase, then glue on the table to their background, then the vase (glue it only along the edge so to leave space for the flower stems).
· Next, they cut out the four flowers. Give them two pipe cleaners, bend them half way and stick them underneath the vase. Tape on the flowers to the stems (pipe cleaners) and then the still life is complete!
Closure:
Set up a few simple objects in the center of each table. Give the students a scrap paper and have them fold it into four sections. In the first space, challenge the students to draw the objects in front of them, but give them only 10 seconds to draw it. Next, challenge them to draw the same thing, but this time they have 30 seconds. Then give the students one minute to draw the still life, and then lastly, 2 minutes.
This is an exercise in observation. Discuss with the students the difference between drawing the still life the first time to the last time. They should have been able to draw more and more details each time, not to mention, they enjoy the challenge of capped time. Afterwards, allow the students the rest of the class to draw and color the still life.
Extended Practice:
Have an activity available where the students can color in a Vincent Van Gogh or Henri Matisse still-life painting.
Wall Text:
A Still-Life picture is a picture of inanimate objects that the artist is looking at, or drawing from life. The students studied different still-life painters such as Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, while also learning about pattern and design, and created their own still life. Their subject was a vase with flowers on a table. They were very creative with their backgrounds, which helped them create very interesting still-life pictures.
Standards:
Standard 1: Creating, performing and participating in the arts
Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials and resources
Standard 3: Responding to and analyzing works of art
Materials:
Practice paper, 9” x 12” Paper, Assorted Colored Paper 6”x18”, Glue, Crayons, Pencils, Scissors, Pipe Cleaners, Oak Tag 12”x18”, Table and Vase Stencils
Instructional Objective:
Students will discover patterns, which can be created using line and shape, and apply this knowledge and skill to create a still life image, focusing on the background, which will show their patterns.
Motivation:
The students will slowly piece together a still life, however they will also get to create their own patterns as the background. The more they practice making patterns, the better they get.
View artists Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh’s work on still-lifes. Matisse’s show a lot of pattern, and use Van Gogh’s to show the set up of a still-life of flowers (flowers in a vase, on a table, in front of a background).
Artist(s):
Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh
Vocabulary:
Pattern, Line, Shape, Design, Still Life, Background, Stencil
Delivery of Instruction:
Step 1:
· Discuss patterns with students. Show examples on the board.
· Have the students help you create different patterns. Show an example that is NOT a pattern, just to make sure they understand.
· Briefly review lines and shapes and demonstrate to the students how these can help them create their patterns.
Step 2:
· Introduce “still-life”. Show examples of still-life paintings by Matisse and Van Gogh. Discuss the elements that are needed to create these images (object, surface, background.)
Step 3:
· Have students fold paper into fours and in each square they are to practice making different patterns. The more original the better. These will be what they choose from to design their background patterns for their still life.
Step 4:
· Give each student two strips of different colored paper. On each paper, they are to create a pattern, preferably one that they practice on their scrap paper.
· Once those are completed, the students will glue them both to an oak tag paper. This will become their background.
Step 5:
· Using stencil, the students will create a vase and a table. On the same paper they will draw four flowers. Before cutting them out, they must be colored in using lots of color and patterns.
· Once this is all complete, the students will cut out their table and vase, then glue on the table to their background, then the vase (glue it only along the edge so to leave space for the flower stems).
· Next, they cut out the four flowers. Give them two pipe cleaners, bend them half way and stick them underneath the vase. Tape on the flowers to the stems (pipe cleaners) and then the still life is complete!
Closure:
Set up a few simple objects in the center of each table. Give the students a scrap paper and have them fold it into four sections. In the first space, challenge the students to draw the objects in front of them, but give them only 10 seconds to draw it. Next, challenge them to draw the same thing, but this time they have 30 seconds. Then give the students one minute to draw the still life, and then lastly, 2 minutes.
This is an exercise in observation. Discuss with the students the difference between drawing the still life the first time to the last time. They should have been able to draw more and more details each time, not to mention, they enjoy the challenge of capped time. Afterwards, allow the students the rest of the class to draw and color the still life.
Extended Practice:
Have an activity available where the students can color in a Vincent Van Gogh or Henri Matisse still-life painting.
Wall Text:
A Still-Life picture is a picture of inanimate objects that the artist is looking at, or drawing from life. The students studied different still-life painters such as Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, while also learning about pattern and design, and created their own still life. Their subject was a vase with flowers on a table. They were very creative with their backgrounds, which helped them create very interesting still-life pictures.