I created a laminated page of Klee art for the kids to reference during and after class. We talked about how Paul Klee paints in a simple, child-like way with Bright Colors, Geometric Shapes, Faces, Animals and sometimes funny aspects to his work. Turbo looked at the art and told me what he saw, what he liked and what he found funny. He liked the faces, especially the cat face. He saw lots of colors and animals. He thought it was funny the cat face had a bird in it and that the bird picture had one upside-down. I loved that he really looked at the art and evaluated it. I also noticed he paid little attention to the art work without faces, animals and such.
Project 1 - Crayon Relief - Color with brightly colored crayons then wash over the drawing with black watercolors.
Project 2 - Stencil Shapes - I printed a page with various shapes, laminated it and cut them out with an exact-o knife. We had both Positive Image and Negative Image stencils. This was Turbo's first time with stencils of any kind. Using a scrap paper, I used a square stencil to demonstrate the technique for Turbo. Then I placed the square on his paper for him to try. That was the extent of my 'help'. After doing the square, he noticed the triangle and immediately thought of houses and decided to make this art! He did the entire project on his own - 3 houses with chimneys and smoke and 1 sun. I will be framing this for sure!
Project 3 - Texture - Paul Klee painted with various mediums and would often add texture aspects to his work. We mixed 2 parts basic shaving cream to 1 part white glue and added some paint for color. Turbo gooped it onto his paper, spread it around, mixed the colors and used forks, sticks and other items to add texture to his art. It dries puffy, so the final piece has some texture also. Very cool!
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