(upbeat music) - Hello, early learners.

And welcome back to the art room.

This week, we have been doing a portrait study.

And for those of us that already know, that a portrait is a picture or a sculpture of a subject.

Most of the time it's people, but we found out that sometimes pets even have their own portraits.

I brought a portrait of my family when I was 10 years old.

It's a picture of me with my three brothers and my parents took us down to the portrait studio and they took a portrait of my family dressed up in our spring outfits.

And that has been above my mom's dresser ever since.

Now she let me have it for my hallway.

So that's that portrait.

I want to remind you that we're going to be doing portraits today and tomorrow.

And these past four days have been portraits done by artists of other people.

And then Friday remember, we're going to do the self portrait that Vincent van Gogh did of himself.

Let's talk about the words that we learned.

And they all started with the same letter.

Do you think we should sing a good morning song before we start our letters?

Maybe we should.

And we'll sing ♪ Hello nice to see you everyone ♪ ♪ Hello nice to see you everyone.

♪ ♪ Hello to you, hello to you ♪ ♪ Hello to you hello to me ♪ ♪ Hello nice to see you everyone ♪ Now back to the five words.

I found when I was putting the words together for the portrait study, that many of them started with the same letter.

And I think a lot of us know what that letter is.

It's only using two lines.

It's a big line and it's also a little curve.

And when we're talking about handwriting, we always start our letters at the top.

So let me remove this and we'll say we always start our letters at the top.

♪ Yes, we always start our letters at the top ♪ ♪ Is this the top, top, top ♪ ♪ No, that's the bottom, bottom, bottom ♪ ♪ We always start our letters at the top ♪ So let's start with our big line.

It's straight as can be, top down.

The other part of this letter is a curved line and it starts at the top as well.

So when we write this letter, we say top down from jump up and a curved line.

And what letter is it?

It's the letter P. Now let's take a look at those five words that I collected about portraits.

And see if you remember what each of them means.

You know what portrait, I just said.

It's in the art world, and it talks about a picture of a subject or a person or an animal.

And then picture, we all know what that is.

It's a picture that you can draw or take with a camera or it's, it could be done even on a computer generated by the computer.

Person is just one of people.

People is two or more.

And then profile we talked about and even drew yesterday.

It's when it's the side view of someone.

And a pose, if I was posing Humpty Dumpty to get ready for his great fall, and he'd say, no, his pose would be ah.

So Humpty Dumpty, I brought him for our last day about cubism during the portrait study, because we've done Modigliani on Monday.

We did Picasso, Picasso, and again, Picasso today.

And Picasso also starts with the letter P. Now I bring Humpty Dumpty out when we're talking about cubism.

And Picasso's one of the most famous cubist artists.

And he did his art for a great long time where everything looked like it was a Humpty Dumpty that had fallen off of the wall and put back together in a funny way.

An eye over here, or a cheek down here or something.

They, the cubists, didn't put everything back in its normal spots and the same thing with today's.

And we have been doing a thing called being the portrait detective.

Now, if something is missing, a detective will say, well, where were they?

What did they have on, what did they look like?

How tall are they?

And that's what we look at when we're looking at portraits and trying to describe them, we will say, what kind of face did it have?

Was it round or oval or did it have angles or what were the eyes like?

Were they wide open, were they kind of closed a little, were they sleepy?

What color were they?

All of those things are things that are clues to our portrait.

And it gives us an idea of maybe what the character was feeling.

And there are their special features.

Do, are they wearing glasses?

Do they have on a hat?

Are they going to be wearing a certain kind of clothing?

And because clothing, if you see someone wearing a crown, you know they must be a king or a queen or a prince or princess.

And so those kinds of things give us clues about our portrait.

And we'll think about what the nose shape is.

Long or short, or pointed or round.

We might think about what kind of hair they have.

Some people that have no hair sometimes are older.

Sometimes people shave their heads and they're not older and they have a bald head.

So we think about all those clues, but let's take a look can we, at Mona Lisa.

We've been looking at Mona Lisa because she is the most famous portrait of all.

And I'll use my pencil to point over to her.

She's right below our portraits.

And she is the most famous portrait of all.

And I will sing the song about her.

And it goes like this.

It's to the tune of "Davy Crockett", for any of you who are wondering, I know that tune, what's that from?

And it goes like this.

♪ Mona, Mona, Lisa, the most famous portrait of all ♪ And there she is.

She's famous for a lot of reasons.

One of the big reasons is because her face is such a mystery.

They cannot figure out is she smiling?

Is she not?

Why do, if I move over here her eyes still look at me?

What if I'm over here?

Like right now, she can see me.

If I lean forward, she's still looking at me.

People say, when you see her in the museum that she follows you with her eyes.

Wouldn't that be fun to be at the museum and she's in France and she can, she's not very big.

She's just the size of the white paper behind her.

She's a very, very, very famous painting.

Now about Mona Lisa's face.

She was put back together in a way that was not a cubist picture, but let's take a look at the one that Pablo Picasso did called "The Weeping Woman".

"The Weeping Woman" is here.

Look at her face.

The ones we've looked at before, didn't have someone with their hand up to their mouth and their eyes looking scared.

And oh, her teeth showing and her hair being kind of back and her hands up.

And she is weeping because Pablo Picasso was very sad about the war that was happening in Spain at the time.

And he painted his picture of the weeping woman with a very sad face.

Now what we're going to be doing with it today is we're going to be making a cubist face in a way that you're going to cut out paper with two faces and kind of talk about what you had done yesterday with the paper bag if you were with us.

Because it's right behind me, where we did, let me turn my body instead of the stretching.

We did the forehead down, the nose out, upper lip, lip, lip under the chin.

And we're going to be doing that with our cutting.

But we'll start out by cutting out an oval and a neck, two of them, and you'll see how I'm going to do it.

I have two pieces of paper.

I have a yellow piece and a blue piece.

And these two pieces of paper, I can cut them at the same time.

If you want to do one, cut it out, trace it on the other one and make it exactly that would be fine.

I can cut them because I told people yesterday, cutting is one of my best things, but I'm going to go up about right here.

Maybe I'll do it on the yellow and you can see it better.

I'll go up the neck.

I'll make my oval.

Can you do this?

Maybe.

Is it seeming hard?

Maybe.

If that's true, just draw it first.

And then cut it out.

Do you see?

It's just a head and a neck.

But I did them both at the same time.

Now what I'm going to do now is do my forehead, nose, down, lip, lip, lip, chin, and cut it off down here so that it gets cut to be part of it.

Maybe I'll drew my drawing a bit.

It will be easier for you to see.

I'm going to get my table, put it up on my lap and we can sing the portrait song while I'm getting my table.

And it goes like this.

I'll do it with this, better just use my hands to do my instrument.

Look at this instrument.

It's a little drum.

And it was also made in Peru.

Just like the egg from yesterday.

And we, if we do.

♪ Hello everybody, yes siree ♪ ♪ Yes, siree ♪ ♪ Yes, siree ♪ ♪ Let's make portraits, yes siree ♪ ♪ Yes siree, my darlin' ♪ Another instrument to show you and how I've used it, lets me put this back here.

Now back to getting my table out.

Here we go.

Fix this.

Turn my table here.

Alrighty.

Now I have my two faces.

I have to do the drawing you know, where it's facing me 'cause it's too hard for me to draw upside down.

So I'm going to go down.

Forehead.

Do you need to see that?

I went down on my forehead.

I'm going out with my nose and in with my nose.

Do you see that?

Now I'm going to do a small line down for my upper lip.

So forehead nose, this part of your upper lip, then lip, lip, like an M. Down for the chin and down for the neck.

I'll show you this.

Now I'm going to cut it out.

So.

You just take your time.

I'm gonna leave my black line on it and it will look good.

I'm just gonna keep it kind of straight on that line.

Take your time cutting yours out.

Like I told you, cutting out is one of my best things.

So cutting out is not hard for me.

And I've been cutting for many, many years.

So if it takes you a little longer to cut out, you can just cut as, until you get to a place.

And then you say, oh, I'm gonna watch her do the rest of it and I'll finish cutting mine out later, you decide.

And sometimes if you're doing this at school, your teacher can stop the video and you can do a part.

Then they can start it up again and then do it that way.

Now look, I have this one, that was this size.

Now I have to put it on the right side.

So there it goes, it fits right there.

So now I have my face facing sideways and my, I have my face that I will do facing forward.

So let me glue stick this on.

Remember you have to think about which side.

So I'm going to turn it over to put the glue on it.

If you put it the glue where the black line is, then the black line doesn't look very good.

Or if you want to hide the pencil, do that, remember the best place to glue your things is around the edges first.

So then I put this on here and match it up with my other one.

And there we go.

Now I can do all cutting and pasting if I want or I can draw it.

But I really liked the idea of doing all of this with cut and paste.

So I brought some extra papers.

I'm going to do some things like maybe add her hat or I'm going to do three colors that I brought purples to make her hair.

So I'm going to see how long if it will fit.

Yes.

So watch what I do.

I'm gonna make it wavy.

So I can just do this.

And doing that same size.

I'll make it kind of pointy at the end.

So I start in and then go around, follow the curve and try and make it the same way.

And I can get a couple pieces out of it.

And another one, make it a pointy at the end and go around and curve in.

Make my hair a few strands that way.

And even the skinny piece, it doesn't look like it could be used, but I can cut a little piece out of there.

And if it's too hard to cut more than one piece of paper, just stop and take one at a time because this is not a race to try and beat Mrs. Read-Write as she's doing hers.

And besides, you will need all the time, you want to make your art so I can line up all those pieces over here.

Now I can get my glue.

I have a bottle of glue, but I'm using glue stick just because it's easier in the studio to do things that are not quite as messy.

So I can put this piece of hair on here and this one next to it.

You can line them up how you decide looks best and overlap them.

I'm just not putting it on where her face gets covered by her hair.

And anything that hangs off the edge, you know what I plan to do?

Just trim it off.

And I don't want any of it to get, have it pop off when I'm working.

So I'll just keep doing this and adding some more glue here and putting more hair that might go down here.

And then another piece right here.

I think that's pretty good.

Now I'll show you what I meant about trimming it See all the pieces that are hanging off the back, right there?

I can just go up to the top of her head and cut off that part that was kind of hanging off.

And now that looks a lot better, I think.

I'm not wild about this piece being right there.

I might hang it up here a little higher.

That's the nice thing about doing this work.

You can just try and glue and take it off and reposition it.

This one needs to be a little shorter I think.

So just like with this, you just decide place it and replace it and see what you like.

Now If I wanted to do my eye, I can get my trimmings from the other place and I might make my V just like we've been doing for the side eyes, because she's sideways.

I don't want to use a yellow eye because the yellow wouldn't show up on here.

That's a little too big.

I can just keep doing, oh, there's a really good one.

So I can glue it on there and use a coloring tool to make the eye look the way I want it to.

So remember, it's where the nose meets the forehead is where the eye really should be around there.

And I can get my white color and make sure that I have, that little V is white.

And then I could put my other color on there.

I can even use a pen and outline that part so it really shows up.

And I can make my eye this way and this way, go around the white part and I can make my eyelashes going down.

And I like sometimes to make them curling up.

I think I'll make that eyeball green and I'm gonna lift this up so you can see it a little better, 'cause I know when it's flat on the table and pointing to just me, it's not as easy to see, but you can see, I have her eye looking sideways and I put the dot there.

I might need to add a little more white into this part to make it cover up in there.

All right.

Now, I can make this the lips.

You know what you do.

You make them, I'll hold it up.

You make the V out.

So it makes it like a little heart.

And when that happens with my permanent pen, I just could make my line go across.

And then I can color in those lips.

And I think I will make them red so they show up.

Now I have to remember the other side of her face is where it's going to be looking forward.

So when I do this and put her lips like that, I think I'll do the lips first and show you how I make sure that those lips fit in.

So there it is.

When I do the face forward lips, I do a V out like this.

I do a V out and then I can make the smile go that way.

So it looks like her face has the full lip straight across.

And I think I will use the same color lips.

So it kind of looks like she's facing forward with her blue face.

And I'm coloring in the lips the same color, but on yellow it's one color and on blue, it's another.

And if that's what happens, that is just fine.

Now I'm going to get a pink to giver her her her rosy cheeks, 'cause you know how I think that makes them look very fancy.

And I'll put a pink color on the blue.

Look at the difference in the colors.

When I put the blue, the pink on the yellow paper, it looks one way.

When I put it on the blue, it looks another.

Now I need to make the eye that looks forward.

And if we remember the directions are curved line, let me move these papers off so that if I happen to put my board up a little bit, it won't knock everything off onto the floor.

So we'll take a little break for this and move that up and move this up.

That way when I make my table go down a little bit you can see.

There we go.

All right.

So now I can do my curved line up here.

It's kind of close to that eye but with cubism, it doesn't have to be.

And a curved line under.

It's a big curve up and a kind of a slimmer curve under.

I'll put its eyelid, a curved line this way, a curved line that way.

And I'll put the dot so I remember not to do it completely colored in, and I think that I will use my lime green for the eye.

'Cause it shows up really good on this paper, since it is so light.

Ooh, it looks more like white.

So I don't want that.

I'll use this one.

Well, that one looks good.

Even mixed up with that.

If you're using crayons, you just have to kinda press hard on your colored paper so that it really shows up.

I'm gonna use my white for the whites of the eyes next to it.

And look how it really shows up on a dark piece of paper.

I think I'll make something fancy in the upper lid so it will stick out here, show, and you know, I think she really does need some eyelashes to make it look like a, I kind of do a fancier face.

I kind of do the upper lashes curly and the lower lashes straight.

I kind of also like when things are outlined on cubist work, so I'm gonna go around her cheeks and really make it show up a little more.

I think that makes it look pretty good.

That looks great.

Okay.

Now what else do I want to add?

Maybe some hair on the other side, maybe some bangs.

I have to decide, when I'm looking at my art.

I think what makes it look even better?

I think, well, maybe even out the hair or maybe give her an outfit.

I'm not gonna use any blue over there because she, her face is blue and it will, blue hair well will not show up there.

So I'm gonna do little pieces to add to the bangs.

So I'll put that right there and I'll put some bangs that go down, a little more bangs over here and you know, boys and girls, I'm putting things on mine and you know how I feel about when you do your art, do you have to do bangs?

No.

You decide what you think looks great.

And I'm going to do another strand of hair for long hair on that side.

So I'm just following the old curve I got from before.

And then I like to go down to the end and make it kind of pointy like hair might be.

There.

I might put that behind her face and maybe I'll even put a blue ear over here.

I'll start that back here, the hair.

So it'll stick out a little bit behind there.

You've seen people who put their hair behind their ears and they like the way that looks.

I think my girl does too.

So put that behind, see how it looks.

And if I don't like it, I can just move it.

Oh yeah.

I like that pretty much.

I think I'll put a blue ear on though.

Maybe I'll make a funny ear.

Now an ear, look, I had to cut it off because big pieces of paper are harder to cut, but a little one I can put the ear, it kind of looks like, I don't know.

It's a kind of a circle with a little bowl beneath.

That's a little too big for an ear, 'cause then it makes her look kind of like a monkey.

I don't her to have the stick out ears, like a monkey.

There, that's good.

And I'll put glue stick on the edge of it.

Stick it there, beneath that.

And it's across from there.

Kind of just a little bit below her eye, like that.

Now girls, boys, and girls, while I finish up the clothing on here, I think that's what I want to do.

I want to tell you what to bring tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

We're going to be doing Vincent van Gogh.

Now Vincent van Gogh is going to be a painting project.

If you have paints, super.

If you don't, do not worry because coloring tools can do the same thing, just not with the same materials.

But you'll make a portrait of him and do swirly art, just like I'm going to do, but maybe you won't be doing it with paints and, which will be fine.

Now I'm going to put this shirt on and sing Goodbye, See You Next Time Everyone, because I can see that it's almost time to go.

♪ So goodbye see you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Good bye, see you next time everyone ♪ ♪ Good bye to you, good bye to you ♪ ♪ Good bye to you, good bye to me ♪ ♪ Good bye, see you next time everyone ♪ Now let's take a look.

I put the shirt on the bottom and it's just barely, the neck comes out through the shirt.

Maybe it's a bow tie or whatever it is.

Isn't it fun making portraits?

Boys and girls, I thank you for joining me today.

And tomorrow when we do Vincent van Gogh and we talk about portraits, I want you to think of all the letter P that we use and until then, have a great rest of your day.

Thank you for joining me and making portraits together.

See you next time, boys and girls.

Bye-bye.

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