3rd Grade: Klimt Trees
Seems amazing I have not taught Klimt until this year, my 3rd year teaching here at Davis. However, I was inspired by What's Happening in the Art Room blog:
and loved the gold trees against the black background.
3rd graders studied some of Klimt's work. They learned that Klimt had meanings behind his art. And many times his art was displayed in large mural like settings. Klimt was an Austrian artist. Many students tried to spot Austria by pointing to the continent of Austrailia. However, I displayed the world map and explained Austria is a small country in the continent of Europe. We talked about his use of pearls, precious stones, gold leaf and ceramic in his work. He used a bit of collage to bring it all together. His work was quite "royal" to say the least.
Students began this art with drawing a Klimt like tree on 12 x 18 black Riverside paper. I did a step by step of this and emphasized curvilinear lines. Students drew the tree with yellow oil pastel. Students then painted the entire tree with gold tempera paint. Next art class, students stamped circles on the tree using white tempera. Students were given various size stampers-liquid watercolor lids, glue bottle lids and gluestick lids worked great. Students also did cu-tip stamping with copper, turquise and silver tempera paints. On the 3rd art day, students used construction paper crayons (crayola brand) to add details to the background (we talked about representing weather with raindrops, snowflakes, etc). Or students could draw a pattern with the crayons. Lastly (on this same day), students rotated through stations to add "royal elements" to their art. Stations included: sparkle paper pieces, rhinestones/gemstones, sequins, glitter, glass globs, and glossy ribbon pieces. The glitter was the most challenging and of course the most fun. I set strict rules for glitter! It was important to emphasize some glitter, not "glitter everywhere". I posted some of these elsewhere in the blog. Haven't figured yet how to upload all the pics and put them in the same post...anyway these did come out magnificent!
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