Working in the Style of another Artist

Anna Esteban, Llicència d'estudis a St Helens, 2005-06

1. Working in the Style of another Artist

Sessions	Two
Focus	To make a drawing using the style of an artist. Line, shape, colour, pattern To scale and texture To encourage students to experiment with style. Art appreciation of great artists.
Material	Drawing pencils, paint, primary colours plus white and black, brushes, art paper, water pots, paper towels, viewfinders, magazines
Resources	A selection of artist works. St Thomas Students activity About the Van Gogh, Seurat and Klimt.	Book: Art 4, Step by Step Webs: Fine Art Print on Canvas
Talk about	Teacher must explain students that every person, with lots of experimentation and practice, developed their own "aesthetic stance" (point of view) and their own signature style. And Great artists are not great because they learned how to copy but of what they contribute. The different styles seen in a range of work by the artist: Van Gogh, for line, colour and texture applied through strokes. Seurat, for colour, shape and texture applied through dots. Klimt, for colour and pattern, he used shapes as circles, spirals, rectangles, triangles. What information can they get from these artists. The subject of each artist's work, landscape, portrait, still life. Use of the viewfinder to isolate different parts of an artist work	Viewfinder
Sketchbook	The children have to choose a picture from magazines. They choose a work from the artists given and write the name of the artist and the title of work plus other details about the artist ( place of birth, style of work...) They have to make a list of the colours, shapes, lines, pattern the artist used
Doing	They start identifying and describing the works of the artist, 4 from each artist. Then, they choose a picture by an artist whose style want to use. They use the viewfinder on their own picture from the magazine and decide what are they going to collect. They must not copy an original artist work. On a piece of A3 or A4 art paper they have to use a thin paint brush to mark the main shape ( They can shape slightly with a pencil) using paint. As they build up their painting they may need to look at the sketchbook. When everyone finishes display all the pictures and they should try to find the artist's work if matches each painting, and give reasons why.
Developing the idea	The whole class work in the style of the same artist. All the class paint a portrait in the style of the different artist. They can paint the same picture in the style of another artist.
Vocabulary and language	Pattern, Scale, Texture, Viewfinder,	Styles: Pointillism, Impressionism, brushstrokes, Shapes: spirals, circles, triangles, rectangles. Visual qualities: Shape, form, colour
Assessment	- Use of keywords to talk about the artists , personal information and style. - To feedback what they like from a particular picture - Do your work evoke any feelings?