Portrait Artist Study - Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is an American artist.

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For our self-portrait study we looked at his work and then created our own versions, 

using zentangle blackline masters as the backgrounds.  

We chose to do monochromatic pencil sketches for our portraits (but next time would be sure to use cartridge/drawing paper rather than just plain paper, to make sure the zentangle lines under our portrait don't show through because the paper would be thicker.)

Here are some of our efforts!

2019 "Self-portraits"

Here are some of our finished portraits as inspired by Nate Williams (see original post here).

So happy with how they have turned out!

Henri Matisse - art appreciation

Henri Matisse 1948 (image source)

For art appreciation discussions this term we are looking at the cutout/collage works of Henri Matisse (1869-1954):

Biography information:
Tate Modern Gallery (For Kids) 
Ducksters.com   
KinderArt
Museum of Modern Art

Classroom lesson ideas: Crafty Classroom   









First, let's find out how this modern artist worked when producing his cutouts:

Videos from the Museum of Modern Art

http://www.biography.com/news/henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-moma (pictures in my IWB picture drive folder)

Next, we will discuss some of Matisse's cutout works - What do they make us think of or feel? What do we like about each one? What do we not like? What questions do we have about each one?

Photos below are from this MoMA website source

Composition Green Background 1947

Large Decoration with Masks 1953

Le Clown 1947

Nuit de Noel (Christmas Night) 1952

Pale Blue Window `1948-49

The Codomas 1943

The Fall of Icarus 1943

The Sheaf 1953

Two Dancers 1937-38

The Horse and Rider 1943-44

Swimming Pool 1952

For our activity, we will each choose one of Matisse's works shown above and use this as our inspiration for a cutout artwork of our own design... (watch this space for a link to the results!)

Keith Haring - modern artist

Our Term Four art theme is based on a famous artist....

The Keith Haring website lesson plans page for teachers: http://www.haringkids.com/lesson_plans/

Biography details: http://www.biography.com/people/keith-haring-246006#synopsis - there is cool animated bio video on the website

How did he become famous?



A glimpse of some of Keith Haring's work - drawings, paintings, sculpture, animations:



Video of artwork made by my Year Six pupils in 2012, inspired by Keith's work. We took photos of ourselves in different action poses, cut out the shape and used them as templates to draw with black vivid on blank paper. We then coloured the shapes or the negative space around them by using concentrated dye and small brushes. To finish we then glued our original photo onto the art work so it looked as if we were part of the picture:



Keith Haring in action - city wall community art project:



Why was he involved in this project?



An idea for creating your own picture in the style of Keith Haring: