The Painting Studio

In Painting, you can make PORTRAITS!

Jordan Casteel is primarily a portrait painter. She snaps photographs of people in her community and then paints from what she observes in the photo.

In Painting, you can make LANDSCAPES!

Erin Hanson paints colorful landscapes with thick paint.  She wants her bright paintings to bring the viewer joy.  

In Painting, you can make a STILL-LIFE.

Los Angeles artist Hilary Pecis paints everyday objects in interior or what we'd say are inside spaces.

In Painting, you can make LINES AND SHAPES!

Jade Fadojutimi is an abstract painter who uses lines, shapes, colors and movement to  express memories and emotions.

Welcome to your Painting Studio!

This week you are going to show what you know about the painting studio! We will document in our Studio Books! 

We learn how to set up our paint area...

We will experiment with watercolor and tempera paints.

Look for directions

Why are there different size brushes?

What is this?

Artists paint on different materials...

Sometimes artists paint with unusual tools...

Could this be used to paint with?  

Can you  paint with these?

Remember that painting with your hands and splatter painting are PERMISSION ONLY!

Some people like to paint standing up and some people like to paint sitting down in a chair. How do you like to paint?

You can make paint papers in the painting studio and then use them to create in the collage studio!

Collage Studio

 

What is a collage?

Collage is a fancy, French word that means "to glue".

We say that a piece of artwork is a "collage" if it has materials glued to it. Many things can be used to create a collage.

look at this artwork and find something that has been glued? 

In Collage you can make a Still-life...

What color paper did the artist use for the bowl?  How do you know the artist drew the grapes before cutting them out?

Collage Landscape

The artist tore shades of blue for the ______?  And shades of green for the _________?  And shades of brown for the _________?

Collage Cityscape

What shape did these artists use to create a city?

Collage Portrait

Which of these two artworks is cut?  Which is torn?

Start with a Background!

The background can be collaged, painted, colored with crayon or marker.  You could use cardboard or a maps, sheet music, magazine pages, newspapers, the possibilities are endless.

collage

painted

crayon

marker

Gather your supplies. 

 

beautiful, interesting papers that are torn or cut, photographs, newspapers, strings/yarn, stickers/stamps, sheet music, text from any source.

In collage you can use many different materials to make something new!

Cut and tear shapes!

Arrange then rearrange!  Overlap and make

 cutouts.

Glue, tape, staple!

Attach shapes, papers, pieces and parts.  

Add Details!  Use markers, printmaking or 

glue small pieces. 

Collage has so many possibilities! 

This week we will practice with some of these materials and learn how use the different types of glues and scissors, punches and texture tools.

This is our Collage Studio!

When you visit the collage studio you will find many materials that you can use to make a collage on paper. You might also make something in the sculpture studio and then take it to the collage studio to "collage" it. You might make a painting or do a drawing and add some collage work to it. Think about it!