Trash To Treasure-Featured Artist-Tyree Guyton

Tyree Guyton grew up in a poor neighborhood, messing around with junk, creating his own toys. His Grandpa Sam, who was a house painter, taught him to use paint. When he returned from serving in the army, he found his old neighborhood really rundown, so in 1986 he began what was called the Heidelberg Project, cleaning up and using paint and trash to make things beautiful again. 

You can make a house  in the sculpture studio out of cardboard. 

How will you embellish your house with paint and found and recycled objects? 

DAY 1

1.  Think about what shape you want the front of your house to be.
2. Make a detailed plan. Cut it out.
3. Raise your hand and show your art teacher your plan.
4. With permission, get 2 cardboard pieces to begin making your house. 
5. Trace house plan on cardboard pieces and cut them out. 
   
   
   DAY 2
   1. Get cardboard for sides of house.
   2. Measure out pieces, mark and cut cardboard.
   3. Get a base and begin to assemble house.4. Remember to use Tabs or  L-braces to hold up and connect the walls. Use hot glue SPARINGLY, if you are overusing it, or using it in place of tabs and braces you will have to use ELMERS GLUE. Any windows that you want cut out, mark in pencil for teacher to cut. 

Illustration (first grade)

Books Have Pictures

Illustration by Mary Engelbreit

An Illustrator is an artist who makes pictures for books magazines, and advertisements. 

Many illustrators have made drawings, paintings, and collages about Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.

Do You have a favorite Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme?

Possible Videos:

Engage: What Do You Do When You Get Stuck?

What do When you don't know what to make?

This mini lesson is written by Beth Williams, the art teacher at Meramec Elementary, in the Clayton School District. 
She was one of our Choice Art Mentors :)

Link to Mini Lesson: Your Artistic Process

Do you make art at home?
What kind of art do you make outside of school?
Where do you make it?
Do you make it for yourself or someone else?
Where do your ideas come from?
What do you do when you get stuck?

After watching the artist video we have students pair share and discuss their own ideas on what they do to get ideas for their art when they feel "stuck."


Students then share the ideas they discussed with their partner, and we make a student created list on the whiteboard. These are then copied on posterboard and put on display in our art rooms for our students to reference when they need a fresh idea!

Express-Special Object

When we EXPRESS ourselves in our art, 
we are communicating our ideas and feelings. 

Special Objects-sometimes artists communicate their ideas about objects that are special and important to them in their art. 

FRIDA KAHLO

Frida Kahlo painted herself wearing these silver hand-shaped earrings, which were a gift from artist, Pablo Picasso. This painting was painted for her doctor, who was a special person in her life. Frida  had been badly injured in a bus accident, and was often under her doctor's care. 

Frida had many pets that were special to her, she painted several self-portraits with her animals.

JOSEPH CORNELL

Artist, Joseph Cornell was a private person. His shadow boxes filled with found objects invite you to look in to his world. 

Some of his common themes in his art are birds, childhood,  and ballet.

Ballet Dancer Tamara Toumanova is the subject of many of Cornell's ballet themed pieces.

What is something that is Special to you?

Do you have an object that is special to you? 

Pair Share with a friend:

1. What is your special object?

2. Why is it important to you?

3. Does it remind you of someone, or an event in your life?

You can make art that expresses ideas and feelings about your special object. 

Extra Art-Observe

Viewing Art

Another way artists OBSERVE, is that they look at artwork made by other artists. 

Let's observe some art!
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood Art Museum

Activity:
"This is what I think is happening..." 
(teacher models using image below)

The Captive Charger by Karl Ferdinand Wimar  1854

1. Students return to their tables. 
2. Teacher passes out images. 
3. Teacher prompt--Tell the story about what you see... 
4. Students take turns telling their partner what they think is happening in their image.