Art with Ü: May 2020

Sunday 31 May 2020

Fractals

A fractal is a geometrical object with a basic structure repeated at different scales. This week you are going to make a 3D fractal pop-up card. Watch the following video to learn how to make it.

Friday 29 May 2020

Zeltportret Met Strohoed

Saúl becomes Van Gogh in Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887), hung at the Detroit Institute of Art, in Detroit.

Thursday 28 May 2020

Gelber Narrenhut

Here is Adrián's version of Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor Rudolph Hausner's Yellow Paper Hat (1955).

by Adrián Silva Castelo

Zeltportret met Pijp en Strohoed

Aleixo's choice for the famous painting is Van Gogh's Self Portrait with Pipe and Straw Hat (1887), which is hung at the Vang Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam.

by Aleixo Romarís García

Monday 25 May 2020

Sol Lewitt

This week’s Arts challenge involves mid-20th Century minimalist artist Sol Lewitt. He was born in Connecticut, The United States.

One of his best known projects is WALL DRAWING, paintings on walls. It is very curious the way Lewitt did them giving some closed instructions on how the work has to be done, in particular, he offered indications on the height and width, colours to use, type and number of lines, geometric figures, etc. Taking into account these indications, it was the art gallery itself that was in charge of hiring local artists to interpret those indications and create art.

For this activity you are going to be local artists and following these indications you must create a work of art:

Free material: you can use any material you want (waxes, markers, paint ...) and use cardboard, paper… as support.

Size: A4.

Colours: green, yellow blue, pink, purple and black.

Shapes: 4 squares, 3 circles.

Lines: vertical straight lines, diagonal wavy lines.

Sunday 24 May 2020

Paddington Bear

Hey guys!
Let's make a Paddington Bear craft out of a toilet paper roll. The following video will help you!

R2D2

Hey 3rd Graders!

Are you ready to draw your R2D2. Watch Cassie Stephens video and make your own R2D2 Collagraph Print!

David Hockney

This week, we are going to work on landscapes with David Hockney. David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artist in the 20th Century. He is a painter , a photographer, a draftsman, a printmaker and a stage designer who has contributed to the Pop Art movement in the 60's.

In his works, he has experimented with many different techniques; from the most traditional ones, such as watercolor or oil, to more revolutionary ones such as photocollage, computer and i-pad drawing.
One of the subject matters of interest of the artist are the landscapes, and that is what you are going to do in your next art project. Draw and paint a landscape following Hockney's techniques; you can use paint or colours, whatever you prefer.
Watch the video to can learn more about his works.

Thursday 21 May 2020

Hearst's International Cover

Adriana gives us this version of Wladyslaw Theodor Benda's, a Polish-American painter, illustrator and designer, January's Cover of Hearst's International Magazine (1924).

by Adriana Lorenzo Rodríguez

Sunday 17 May 2020

Visual Poetry

As today we celebrate "Día das Letras Galegas", we are going to work on calligrams. A calligram is a poem, phrase or word arranged as an image related to the text written.

The first calligram was created by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic, who was also the first that used the word Surrealism. Most of his concrete poetry was collected by Mercure de France in Calligrammes (1913-1916) after his death.