(bright music) - Hello, early learners and welcome back to the art room.

It's my first day back after being gone on my travels on my bicycle.

I put a thousand miles on my bike this summer, and I was looking forward to coming back to the art room and working with you.

Well, we wanna sing a hello song this morning, and it's our old one where we say.

♪ Hello, nice to see you, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello, nice to see, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello to you ♪ ♪ Hello to you ♪ ♪ Hello to you ♪ ♪ Hello to me ♪ ♪ Hello, nice to see you everyone ♪ Well, our study this week is portraits.

Now, do you know the word portraits?

I brought five words to talk to you about before we start the art project.

I brought a portrait of my family, my brothers and me in this picture right here.

Now, we know a portrait tells a story about whatever is in the frame.

It could be a person, but do you know what I know?

Some people have portraits of their pets, listen to that, portraits of their pets.

Let's look at all of these words that I have on my blue chart.

I'll use my little stick and point to it.

This is a rhythm stick that I use for music, but I'm going to point with it.

This is the word portrait.

Here is the portrait we're studying today.

And we'll talk about it in a minute.

The next word is picture.

You know what a picture is.

Then there's a person.

You also know what a person.

A profile.

When you have a picture of a person straight on, that is a straight ahead picture.

And I'm going to show you my examples of how, when we're doing portraits, how the people capturing the portraits make them look.

They can have people looking straight ahead.

They can have people doing a quarter turn, or they can make them completely sideways, which is a profile.

This is a profile with someone's face facing completely sideways from you.

Now some of you might know the word pose.

The word pose means to pose yourself, strike a little pose.

A lot times you might see your mama put her hand on her waist when she's getting a pose to have her portrait taken.

Even a selfie might be a portrait.

But I wanted you to know about the most famous portrait of all.

And if you're a TK student, you know this artwork, because your teacher will teach you about it in Fresno Unified.

We have the most famous portrait of all on our board right here.

And I wrote a little song about it, and it goes like this.

♪ Mona, Mona Lisa ♪ ♪ The most famous portrait of all ♪ Now, when we look at her, we look at her face, and on her face are her eyes, her nose and her mouth.

We can't see her ears, because her hair is covering it.

We can see her neck and part of her body.

You don't see the whole body.

So sometimes they call this the bust or half portrait.

It's half of her body showing.

And the reason it is famous is because she's kind of a mystery.

You don't really know why she's only got a half smile.

It looks like she doesn't have any eyebrows, so you don't know if she's happy or sad, mad or glad.

We just can't really tell, 'cause is her mouth quiet, because she's just trying to stay still?

The artist took years to do her art.

It took years for her to be sitting there quietly.

And when she would get bored, Leonardo da Vinci would bring in clowns and gestures to dance around for her, so she could have something to watch, because she had to sit very, very still.

Now we want to also talk about Mona Lisa's picture and how she might be feeling, because all week long, we're going to be looking at art and figuring out how the portraits tell a story.

And I made a little list of things we'll look at when we're making our own portraits.

The portraits look at all week long are going to be portraits done by other people of other people, except on Friday.

On Friday, it is a selfie, or a self-portrait.

It's Vincent van Gogh who painted himself.

He was one of the most famous artists, and he also has more self-portraits than any artist I really know.

And we're going to look at him throughout this year, because he has so many great artworks that I want to show you.

But the things that we at when we are looking at portraits is what the face shape is.

Is it an oval or is it round?

Or is it angular?

That means is it kind of pointy on the bottom?

Or some people say they have a square shaped face.

So when you draw your portraits, you get to decide what shape you'll do your face.

But look what I brought today.

I know Ms. Laura uses a mirror to see how she's feeling during the day.

And I'm showing you my profile.

I brought this mirror, because when we're doing artwork that we're doing of ourselves, you're going to want to look in a mirror to see maybe what your facial shape is and what your eyes look like, if you have a nose that is long or short, broad or narrow, is your nose pointed or is it rounded?

You'll look in the mirror to decide, but when you're doing art of other people, you can just decide how you want them to look.

The second thing we look at are the eyes, maybe the color or their shape.

Some people have long eyes, some have round eyes, some are almond, some are a different shape than that.

And special features.

If you were doing a portrait of me, you'd have to remember to put my glasses on or else people wouldn't think it was me.

Maybe you'd see if they have braces on their teeth or other features.

We have to look and see what kind of hair they have.

Is it long or short, wavy or curly, or maybe it's straight?

So when we look at all of these things, we're going to make portraits and you'll keep those clues in mind.

Because during the week, I want us to be portrait detectives.

And I'll ask you to look at certain things on the portrait, and you'll think, well, what kind of shape is that face?

What kind of nose is that nose?

And you'll be looking at those right now when we look at our artists for the day, Amedeo Modigliani.

Listen to that name.

He was an Italian-Jewish painter in the 1900s.

And he lived in France, which is one of my favorite places to tell you about, because lots of artists went there, we know.

And he hardly used a very wide palette of color.

Let's look at this picture.

It is called woman with earrings.

Now, this woman with earrings, you'll notice that she has a long face.

What else do you notice about her?

She has a long neck.

She has a long nose.

And that's what we want to know about Amedeo Modigliani.

He did people's portraits with long faces and long necks.

So when you come upon a portrait that you're not sure, ooh, I wonder who painted that?

You'll say, "Does it have a long neck?

Does it have a long face?

I bet it's Amedeo Modigliani.

And we will figure that out.

And we will see when we draw our own, how you can make that portrait look like Modigliani's.

The "Woman with Earrings."

He has dozens and dozens of the other characters.

And you'll think, how are they sitting?

Now, we just talked about, is she sitting right front facing?

Is she sitting quarter turn?

Or is she profile?

When we look at her, we see she is facing straight ahead.

Her face is straight ahead.

And that's the kind of art we're doing today.

Let me move next to this picture.

Right next to it is the directions on how we're going to do it.

If you brought paper today, you will know that you'll need a piece of paper that's kind of long and skinny.

We're going to fold it into fourths, and then in half again, just to make sure our placement is right.

And now you can also look at our artists.

This is Amedeo Modigliani, and doesn't he look like quite a fellow?

He's in his fancy jacket and his ascot tie, has his chin up, like he's someone saying, "Take a look at me."

And he did this artwork.

This portrait.

So if you brought a piece of paper, if you have brought any kind of coloring tools, today, I am using my pastels.

These are the chalk pastels.

Now we know about these pastels.

They are quite messy.

They're kind of fluffy and they get dust everywhere.

So when I've taught this before, I've taught you when you're drawing, when the pieces get all fluffy on your paper, you can tap them on newsprint or newspaper, so you can then shake that into the garbage can.

I wanted to say to you about the words that we use today, they all started with the same letter.

Let me use Ms. Laura's board to show you.

In Handwriting Without Tears, we always start our letters at the top.

♪ Yes, we always start our letters at the top.

♪ ♪ Is this the top, top, top ♪ Yes, it is.

'Cause usually when we sing the song we say, "Is this the top, top, top?"

You say, "No, that's the bottom, bottom, bottom."

So we're going to start at the top, because we need one big line starting at the top, pull down, frog jump back up, and we put on our curve line.

So portrait, p, picture, p, person, p, profile, p, pose, all started with the letter P. And if you're thinking of things that start with the letter P, if you make a little card that has the letter on there, and every time you see me say something like person, you'll say "Person," or you might say portrait, "Portrait," or you might say picture, so you can hit make a letter card with the letter P on it, and have it ready for all week long.

When I say the words, you can just touch it on your workspace.

Now, I wanted to also show you I have a frame.

I'm using this frame as my table, and I'm going to turn it upside down on my lap, so you can see everything.

Earlier I wanted to show you the Mona Lisa painting.

And I was going to show you a picture in a book, but I think we can save that book for tomorrow, because it's a really interesting book about Katie and the Mona Lisa.

lots of you have seen "Katie and the Water Lilies," or you've seen "Katie in the Bathers," or you've seen "Katie and the Starry Night," about Vincent van Gogh.

But we'll bring that out tomorrow when we talk about the Mona Lisa again, and sing the song about Mona, Mona Lisa.

Look at the paper I chose for my art.

I am using a long piece of black paper.

If you use white paper, that's fine.

If you just have the kind of paper we almost always have around our house, just regular paper, and it looks like this, it won't give you a really skinny picture.

So if you want make the picture today, make it a long, skinny piece of paper to start out with, if this is the paper you have.

Watch what I'm going to do with my black paper.

You can see that when I hold it up vertically, that's the tall part.

When I put it horizontally, it's shorter.

I'm going to start out by folding my paper across, and I'm not pressing really hard.

I just want to have kind of an idea of how my fold is.

Now, you can see how I folded my paper, just in half.

I'll hold it up to the white paper.

So you can see, I folded in half once.

Now, watch me fold in half again.

And I'm folding it, so now let's count how many parts of my paper I have folded.

I have one fold, two, three folds, but look how many pieces I have?

One, two, three, four.

I also to fold it in half long-wise, because that's gonna tell me where my nose is going to go.

So I'm folding it.

And if it's it's easier for you, you could draw with a...

I'm using white, because I have a black piece of paper, and I'll draw a little line, so you can see it.

Here's one box, two boxes, three.

Do you see?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Now, on the directions that I was showing you, here are the eight pieces, and I want to make from my second fold down, here's fold one, second fold down is where my face will begin, and I want to make it an oval.

Let me show you this.

Here is my oval.

Next, I'm going to do...

The shoulders are going to be from the bottom box, down, and down.

All the rest is neck, neck, the long neck of Modigliani.

Look what I have now.

I have the long head, the long neck, and the shoulders.

Now, boys and girls, I have to turn my picture to myself.

And then I'll turn it back around to you.

When we looked at the checkoff sheet, it said, "What kind of eyes do you have?"

So I'm going to start out, and I'll do one facing me.

I'm going to start out with my eyes on that first line.

And I'm just doing two curve lines like this.

You can do that.

I'm going to do a curve under that to make my almond shaped eyes.

Here I've done that.

You do that.

I'm going to make my eyelids now.

So I'm just going to make a thin line underneath that first line.

Look how I've done that.

See how I made a curve line like that?

That makes for the upper eyelid.

Now I want my person to have a calm face, just like Modigliani's.

So I am going to put calm eyebrows.

That just follows the same line as the eye.

When we do eyebrows that are pointed down, it makes someone look angry.

When we make them up high and curved high, it makes them look like they're asking a question, or they're surprised.

Now, on this middle fold, I am going to draw my nose.

So I'm gonna start at my eyebrow, go down and make kind of a curve line that's like an L backwards.

You make your nose how you think it looks great.

And I like to also make a little curve over here to show that the nose keeps going.

Now, an interesting thing about a mouth, when I'm teaching children how to make a mouth, if it's gonna be a peaceful mouth, kind of like Modigliani's, I'm going to make the letter M kind of skinny like that.

It's flattened out, lowercase M without a standing line, but I just do that, a curve, curve right under the nose.

And then I draw a smiley face underneath that for the lower lip.

And then I can draw a straight line across to show that it's straight line face.

Now I'm going to make my shirt have a V neck.

So I go down like that.

Now, let me tell you about coloring the skin.

Now, we know we're going to do the hair all down here.

Could it be short on the top?

It could be like our portrait, that from Modigliani, where the hair is just a bangs on its forehead, bangs on the forehead, and hair around here.

So I'm looking in my chalk, and I want you to know, I also have a piece of paper here.

If you use these chalk pastels, you put it on top of where you're coloring, so that you don't make your hand move the chalk everywhere all over your art.

You put it on here and color and move it.

'Cause everywhere you put your hand on top of your artwork, it's gonna make a smear.

You'll take your hand and you'll smear all over and that's no fun.

So let me get a skin color, and I'm going to start making her kind of peachy.

So I'm going to go around here, and I'll start away from myself, so that I don't drag my hand through my color.

And I'm gonna go down because her chin, you can see a difference between where her chin is and her neck.

So I'm going to leave a little bit of a black line there.

You don't need to, if you don't want to, or if you're using crayons, you can go back again and outline maybe with your black crayon.

Going up here, I'll leave a little bit of a black line, so you can see where her face ends and her chin begins.

Go up here.

I'm not gonna color where her eyebrow is, but I do wanna get in her nose, and I'm gonna leave a little black line, so you can see where the outline is, and go near my drawing of my eyes, but stay away from it a little bit, so when I color it in, it won't smear.

With this light color, it's not as bad if it smears, 'cause you can color over again.

But if you're using black and you make a big smear, it's kind of hard to recover from that.

So I'm still coloring in.

I like to make my people have a rosy cheek, 'cause I think it makes them look a little healthier, or maybe they've been playing outside in this hot, hot day, and it makes them look a little colorful.

Okay, it looks like this is coming together pretty good.

And you can see, and even if the black comes through a little bit, boys and girls, it still looks good.

I'm going to do my cheeks now.

Just rubbing this on here.

I haven't drug my arm across any of the places, which makes it great.

I'm going to use my white, and color around the whole eye, and make sure that it has a place that I can do then the color of her eyes, 'cause that makes her look kind of spooky, doesn't it?

Ooh.

Yeah, kind of scary looking.

I think I'll make her the color of eyes I have, a dark brown, so I'll make a parentheses or two commas kind of around there, and get that on there.

Two curved lines, 'cause it's really not a complete round circle, because the eyelid kind of covers up part of it.

And then in the middle, what color do you think it is?

It's called the pupil.

The pupil is black on our eyes, and it's what lets the light in.

Here we go.

Now, I can decide what kind of hair I want.

I think I'm going to make her have kind of orange hair, so it will show up on the black.

Just like I have curly hair, I'm gonna make her have some curly hair that comes down kind of below her chin.

And I'm just doing it in circles.

But do you need to make your hair orange?

No.

Does it have to be a color of your hair?

No.

This is your art.

Remember how I feel about that?

That artists get to choose their colors.

And if someone tells you, "Well, an apple isn't purple," and you say, "Well, I'm doing expressionism.

Unless the directions are make it look real, because some teachers say let's make a real looking picture, and then you follow the directions.

But if you're just doing your art at home by yourself, you can decide.

Now, the other thing that I think makes a picture look interesting is to do some mixture.

None of our hair really is just one single color.

If the sun hits it, it's kind of one color.

And if it's not, it isn't, and I could put some red on here.

I can make her have a whole different kind of color and palette.

And I think I'm gonna give her a red dress, because I do love the color red.

So then I'll do this.

I might make a different place around her.

So I might make her have a stripe dress.

The clothes are another thing to think about.

Is it your favorite color?

Do you like it because it's bright?

Are you going to put decorations on it?

Will we have some buttons?

Look, I'm making some round circles on mine, so that it makes it kind of a fancy outfit.

And I might even do some dots of color here.

Boys and girls, while I'm finishing this up, I wanna tell you what we're going to bring tomorrow for our project.

This portrait that we're going to be doing tomorrow, we're going to need our coloring tool.

So depending on what you have, do you have oil pastels?

Do you have these chalk pastels?

Do you have crayons or paints?

Coloring tools, we'll bring everyday, 'cause I'll say to you, "You need coloring tools," and you'll think, well, I'm just gonna keep them in my art kit, so that I'm ready to go.

Keep everything in a nice place.

We're gonna do a cubism face.

So you need some colored paper, glue and scissors.

So if you have those things ready tomorrow, you will know that we're going... Oh, I'm so happy about this.

I think I better give her some lips.

You'll be ready to do the project tomorrow.

So make sure that you're ready and come back tomorrow to do another portrait.

And we'll be talking about the letter P, and all of the things there.

So I want you to sing goodbye.

see you next time, everyone.

♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Good bye to you ♪ ♪ Good bye to you ♪ ♪ Good bye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to me ♪ ♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ Boys and girls, we're gonna be doing portraits all week long.

I hope that I'll see you tomorrow when we are going to do a Picasso, a Picasso cubist picture, and it's kind of like Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall and we gotta put him back together.

Thank you for joining me today.

This was a great first day back together.

Bye, boys and girls.

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