LESSON PRESENTATION INSTRUCTIONS
TEXTURE
TEXTURE OWLS
Lesson Objectives: To show how different textures can be used in art to add interest and detail.
Time Required: 1 hour
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh, The Road Menders
Source: http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2010/09/owl-projects-take-2.html
Materials:
- White 9×12 Watercolor paper taped to a board
- Watercolors: blue, purple, and black
- Watercolor brushes
- Cups for water
- Paper towels
- Tempera paint: white, yellow, and black
- Sponges: small and owl shaped (in the EA supply room)
- Round discs the size of a quarter
- Tissue
- Newspaper, brown paper bags, brown tissue paper cut into strips
- Elmer’s glue
- Q-tips
- Paper plates or paint palettes
Presentation:
Discuss how texture is used in art. Discuss what mixed media is: using multiple medias on one art project.
Procedure:
- BEFORE PRESENTATION: Pass out watercolor on boards. Write names on blue tape.
- With a pencil, draw a curved horizon line in the bottom 1/3 of the page.
- Using a wet paintbrush, get the watercolor paper wet from the top down to the horizon line.
- Demonstrate how to create a “puddle” in the watercolor, getting it juicy so it will flow onto the already wet paper (wet-on-wet technique).
- Use a mixture of blue and purple to create a sky.
- While the paper is still wet, wrap a round disc in tissue, gather the tissue around it so it’s in the shape of a circle, press it onto the paper and lift out a moon. (The tissue paper will absorb the color in the shape of a circle).
- With the black watercolor, paint beneath the horizon line.
- GIVE PRESENTATION while the paper dries.
- AFTER PRESENTATION: Glue on strips of paper with Emler’s glue and Q-tips to create a tree trunk along the edge of the paper being careful not to go onto the blue tape! Make 1-2 branches.
- With watery black watercolor, lightly paint on some black to the trunk and branches to add shadows.
- With white tempera paint and a sponge, dab some paint lightly along the ground as if it had lightly snowed.
- With black tempera paint and the owl shaped sponges, print several owls sitting on branches.
- Using the wooden end of a paintbrush, add a dab of yellow paint for the eyes and a very small dab of black paint for the pupils (might want to use toothpicks).
