Art at Home for the Week of May 11

Hi Center School Cardinals, this week's theme is FOOD and the American artist Wayne Thiebaud. Scroll down to your grade's lesson to learn about Wayne Thiebaud and complete your art lesson. Have fun!!

- Ms. Goldman :)

Cupcake Art
for Grades K and 1
First let's watch this video to learn about the American artist Wayne Thiebaud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p65qog__Y

Now follow these steps to draw 4 yummy cupcakes:

Materials:
Paper
Pencil or something to draw with
Crayons, oil pastels, construction paper crayons, or markers.

1. Hold your paper the long way, so you can fit all 4 cupcakes. Then draw 4 horizontal lines, these will be the bottoms of your cupcakes.

Just a reminder, horizontal lines go side to side like a street,  and vertical lines go up and down like a telephone
pole

2.  Now draw two diagonal lines for the sides of your cupcakes.  They start off touching the bottom line and go outward as they go up!  These will be the sides of each cupcake.

3.  Draw a curved line that looks like a smile on the bottom of your cupcakes.  (Right over the straight line is fine).  This will be the rounded bottoms.



4. Next draw a line that looks like a smile on the top of each cupcake.





5. All you have left to draw is your frosting on top of your cupcake. Add lots of tall bumps for a lot of frosting. Add a shorter bump for a smaller amount of frosting. Add sprinkles! Or a cherry on top!

6.  Add lots of bright colors to each cupcake.  Can you use different colors for each of your four cupcakes?  





Delicious Donuts Inspired by Wayne Thiebaud
For Grade 2 and 3

Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter known for his colorful paintings of desserts: pies, ice cream cones, pastries, candies, cakes and donuts! Below are some examples of his paintings. Notice the colors, patterns and shadows.

.

Have you ever seen all the different kinds of donuts in Dunkin’ Donuts? Below is a photograph of donuts. They are not only colorful, but each one casts a shadow.

Materials:

Paper

Pencil

Round objects to trace, one large, one small (glasses, lids and caps work well)

Markers and crayons

Steps:
Watch this short video all about the artwork of American artist, Wayne Thiebaud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p65qog__Y

Using a pencil, trace the larger object to make circles to fill the paper. These are the donuts. They can be lined up in rows, or placed randomly. Leave space between each one.

Trace the smaller object in the middle of the large circles. These are the donut holes. If you want one of your donuts to be jelly, leave out the small circle!

Create shadows by coloring a thin curved section around the outside edge of each donut. The shadows should be on the same side of each donut. Use a neutral color such as gray, black or tan.

Finish the donuts with a variety of colors and details like icing and sprinkles!

.

Wayne Thiebaud Inspired

Ice Cream Cones with Value

For Grades 4 and 5

Materials:

Paper

Pencil

Crayons or colored pencils

Steps:

Click on the link to watch a video and learn about the artwork of Wayne Thiebaud. 
You MAY remember learning about him a long time ago in kindergarten!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p65qog__Y

Before you go further, watch Ms. Goldman’s video that shows you what to do!

Ms. Goldman's Video

Use your pencil to draw three ice cream cones.  Start with the cones, draw them
low down, so you can fit lots of scoops of ice cream.

Starting from the bottom scoop, draw 4 scoops of ice cream on top of each cone.  
Add a cherry on top or anything else that sounds good.

Now you’re going to add VALUE.  Value means “darks and lights of a color” 
Each ice cream cone will have its own color.  Choose your first color, and start from
he bottom scoop again.  

The bottom scoop will be the LIGHTEST so press gently with your crayon or
colored pencil.  The next scoop up will be a little darker, so press a little bit harder

(but not too much!) The next scoop up will be a little darker than that, so press even harder.

The final scoop, the top one, will be the darkest.  Press hard with your crayon or
colored pencil, and go back over it a number of times to make the color as dark as you can.  

Now do the same with a different color, on the other two ice cream cones.

Color in the cones, and add criss-crossing lines.  Color in everything else in your drawing.

Have fun!