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

This week, we're going to be talking about the elements of art and there are seven elements and we're going to talk about five of them.

Let's start out by singing our hello song.

It's our old one that we changed the words to say hello and it's that kind of cowboy song where you could do this to your legs.

♪ Oh, it's time to say hello to all my friends ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say hello to all my friends ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say hello ♪ ♪ Get ready, get set, go ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say hello to all my friends.

♪ And the next thing I want to tell you is the first element that we're going to talk about is line.

So I have a print, the artist, and some information about line and a book about a mom who draws a picture of her two daughters, and your part in that, and I kind of think I would use my microphone, that you will say, used in the picture that mom drew and each time I come to that line, you can just call it out to the audience in your house or in your mind.

So let's take a look at our book.

Let me pick my little table up and use it as a stand so the book will stay steady and you'll be able to look at it.

Squish this little place in here, I'll turn my legs sideways.

It's called "The Picture that Mom Drew".

Now, these are the two daughters and the mom is an artist, so let's get this open to the first page.

This is the title page, again, with the mom and the two girls.

"The Picture that Mom Drew".

Now, you can see they're out at the ocean.

This is our mom.

This is the paper used for the picture that mom drew.

Now, that's the part you will say, used for the picture that mom drew, because every page gives you a chance to help be the reader.

It's called interactive reading.

These are the colors that highlighted the paper used for the picture that mom drew.

Did you notice I put my hand down?

That means your turn.

These are some lines, sketched with the colors that brightened the paper, used for the picture that mom drew.

These are some of the shapes drawn with the lines, sketched with the colors that brightened the paper, used for the picture that mom drew.

Forms.

These are some forms molded from the shapes, drawn with the lines, sketched with the colors that brightened the paper, used for the picture that mom drew.

Shade.

These are the shades layered over the forms, molded from the shapes, drawn with the lines, and sketched with the colors that brightened the paper, used for the picture that mom drew.

Patterns.

These are some patterns, enhanced, which means made fancier or made noticed, enhanced by the shades, layered on the forms, molded from the shapes, drawn with the lines, sketched with the colors that brightened the paper, used for the picture that mom drew.

Texture.

We'll be doing texture on Friday.

These are some textures next to the patterns, enhanced by the shades, layered over the forms, molded from the shapes, drawn with the lines, sketched with the colors that brightened the paper, used for the picture that mom drew.

And...this is the picture that mom drew.

So here are the two girls in the very same outfits in the picture that mom drew and we saw it happening throughout the story.

All right, boys and girls, the other book I brought, I'm just going to make a note of it, it's called "The Noisy Paint Box" because our artist, when I show you him, his name is Kandinsky, Wassily Kandinsky, and Kandinsky was the artist that painted the picture we're going to be talking about today.

And here it is, the print.

Now, he used lines in this print and his lines, some of them were straight lines, some of them were curved lines, some of them were zigzag lines, some of them are heavier and thicker, some are thinner and on top of each other, and some of them are colored in.

Here is a very squiggling line that never crosses itself because when the line crosses itself, it makes a shape.

For instance, this line crossed this line and crossed this line and it made a triangle shape, so shape is different from line.

And here is Wassily Kandinsky and he was an artist who felt he could hear colors.

He could hear the sounds of colors and that's why that book I showed you, "The Noisy Paint Box", it tells all about the fact that he not only saw colors, he could hear them.

And he made this picture and over here are some dark colors that he used with line and here are some light and warm colors and I thought right here, the way he made this line down and in, it made it look like a nose, this one, the line continued and touched each other and made the shape of a circle, and you'll see circles all around that balance this because this is kind of heavy on this side if it was on a scale and this is lighter and the lines are thinner on this side.

And I was going to read a book called "Lines That Wiggle" and it's a monster that goes through the book and if you ask your teacher about it, it's in the library and you can use that book to do the project that we're going to do today.

Now, this is the element song and it's to the tune "Clementine" and it goes (humming).

And it says.

♪ Oh, a line is a dot that's a walk in space ♪ ♪ Oh, a line is a dot on a walk in a space ♪ ♪ Oh, a line can go curvy on its walk in space ♪ ♪ Oh, a line can go curvy on its walk in space ♪ How else could a line go?

Zigzag is an idea.

♪ Oh, a line can go zigzag on its walk in space ♪ ♪ Oh, a line can go zigzag on its walk in space ♪ The last one, we'll say broken.

♪ Oh, a line can be broken on its walk through space ♪ ♪ Oh, a line can be broken on its walk through space ♪ So that's like a dotted line.

We're going to be making this little monster that is a line monster, so if you have construction paper, glue, scissors, and I'm using some pastels for drawing my lines for its hair, so if you have those things ready, get them out, make yourself a workspace.

I think maybe putting some construction paper down, I'm going to do that, or use a piece of newspaper, old newspaper, so you don't get any glue on the table where you're working.

Always cover your spot and make sure you're a neat artist so that other people can use the area where you're working and it doesn't damage anything there.

Let's put my pointer stick away.

I don't think we need the microphone because I used my hand for the your turn.

Usually I'll say my turn and I'll say something, then take the microphone to you and say your turn, but I just used my hands.

Sometimes I'll say my turn, your turn.

Let's set this over.

Our painting today is called "Yellow, Red, and Blue".

Yellow, red, and blue are primary colors and we're gonna be talking about colors more on, I think it's Wednesday, we'll talk about color, but those three colors are the title Kandinsky gave to this painting and even though it's all about line, I thought, wouldn't it be interesting to include information about color?

Let me get my little table up on my lap.

I'll show you the colors that I chose for my project.

You can use any color you like, but I thought these bright colors looked really great together.

I think I'm going to use the magenta for my background color, so I'll put it down here.

I have a color that I already cut for the table because in the book, the monster sits at a table and it has some spaghetti on his tummy.

He was eating and it got all over him, but we're going to be using line.

This green paper I thought was really pretty with these colors and I thought I would use it to make a bowl.

Now, our directions are, we're going to make the monster and then we will do the directions where it says we're putting patterns on the table, we're making more patterns on the bowl.

So, here we go.

These papers are all the same size for background and monster.

Yup.

So I could either draw my shape, or what it really is, is just like a thumb shape.

If I could cut around my thumb, if I had got a giant thumb, but watch me.

I'm just going to start here and curve up to the top and come back down the other side.

And all he is is like a thumb shape.

And there, I'll put it on here and turn it to you so you can see.

So you say to yourself, oh yes, I see lines.

I see a straight line and I see a big curve that goes all the way around and this is the monster's body.

Now, on the picture book that I have about the monster, he has two horns on his head, kind of like a goat, so I like to fold my paper in half so both of the horns will be the same size.

You can make yours have a point on the end.

I'm making mine kind of rounded.

And go down and snip it off.

I will keep the scraps and I can put those on his body.

I think he's a little too tall.

I'm gonna bring him down a little bit because what I want to do is make sure that he has room for some wild and crazy lined hair.

That's gonna work out better, and put his horns behind.

There we go.

There's the beginning of him.

Let me get my glue stick and glue it on.

What have I told you about gluing on your pieces?

Do you remember?

Is it better just to put a little dot in the middle or go all the way around the outside of the shape?

That's right, all the way around the outside of the shape will almost guarantee that it will stay sticking on there.

Now, some of our paper seems bumpy for texture and I'm using the liquid glue because it gets in the crevices and has it stick on a little better.

I'm going to try and line this up with the bottom as best I can because neatness really does matter to me.

Now I'm going to put the glue stick on the back of this horn and put it on the monster's head.

I might even slip it behind so you don't see where it comes in.

I like that better than sticking it on top.

So I better pick up this side before the glue stick sticks.

Can I?

Oh, good.

Still enough time.

So I'll put the glue, turn it over because if I glued it that way, both horns would be pointing the same direction and I want them to be pointing out.

You can make your horns however you want, if you even decide to put horns on.

Now, the next part I want to do is to make his table.

So I'm going to put the table here, but the idea is learning about lines, so I'm gonna put that there and use a bunch of scraps that I have on this table next to me.

You don't need to see that part that I'm dragging it over.

I have this nice pack of paper.

This green will be good on here.

And we talked about a broken line.

So I'm going to glue the table on.

Glue stick up just a tiny bit.

Remember, if you make your glue stick go up too far, when you use it, sometimes it will break off and it's hard to get it to go back in the case.

So here's his table.

He's standing at the table to eat his spaghetti.

Now, I'm going to put glue all the way across this.

Rather than making the glue go across, I'm gonna hold it here and pull the paper through the glue stick so that it gets it on there.

That way, when I go to cut the pieces, it's just so much easier.

It's sticky and gets all over my hands, but it's kind of fun to do this and then you can place it wherever you think it looks good.

And I'm going to make a pattern of horizontal line, vertical line, horizontal line.

Now, do you know the words horizontal and vertical?

Horizontal is laying down like this and vertical is standing up.

Horizontal, vertical, horizontal.

What comes next if I'm doing a pattern?

That's right, vertical.

So I'll put my vertical one.

What comes next if I'm doing a pattern?

That's right, horizontal.

You'll notice I'm not getting fussy about how long my pieces are.

I could make them all the same size by measuring, and if that's important to you, just get your ruler out and you can just make little spaces and make a dot where you want to cut, but it's not important to me to have that happen.

Horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical.

What comes next?

You are right, horizontal.

And do another one vertical.

I can add more things to this.

See how it's looking?

Now, you know when I make my eyes, I really like to use a white paper, I'll just cut it off of here, I like to make the white of the character's eyes because it kind of makes them look like they're a little on the spooked out side.

So here's my paper, and you know what?

If I'm making more than one, I fold it in half, and if you're not good at cutting out a circle, an oval is okay, and if it's bumpy, that's all right, too.

But I usually just say cut off the corners and you've made yourself a good eye.

So I'm going to put two glue sticks dots there in there and put them on.

Now, look how much he's looking like a great monster so far.

I'm going to see how big of a bowl I want to make.

Now that his table is decorated, I'm going to say, I want his bowl not to be this big, I want his bowl to be about that big, so I make a little fold so I know where to cut.

How deep will the bowl be now?

Well, if he's gonna sit on the table, I'll make a mark there.

There we go.

Now, we talked about symmetry awhile back, and that means when one side has a shape or a design or something, the other side, you might want the same.

So I'm not going to fold it crisp on the edge.

I'm just going to hold the edges here.

Now, to make bowl, I like to do a little tiny cut here and then curve line up to the corner, and I can make a curve line to the middle.

Let's see if this looks like a good bowl.

Well, I think it looks great.

Now, if you think that this was a little more hard to do, draw it first and then you can add your pieces to it because art should be fun.

We shouldn't be worried about if it looks exactly like a bowl that you own.

It's the monster's bowl, so it can be any kind of design or shape that you think you'd like.

Now, I'm going to make up some shapes to put on here to make the bowl kind of fancy 'cause this is about line and we also, we're including shape in there.

So this one, I made a bunch of triangles using this dark blue paper and I think I would like to use a little bit of orange 'cause I love blue and orange together.

So I'm going to use this and make a squiggly line 'cause a line can be curvy.

We sang about it, didn't we?

I'm gonna put this on the bowl and see how far across I need to go and I look on the back so that I can see how far to cut and I'll put it right to there.

And then I can go right next to this line, let me move this so you can see, and I will cut next to that curve and kind of make it the same curve as the one I cut before.

And there it is.

How does it look on the bowl?

Oh, I like how it looks.

Now, it's going to go off the edge a little bit, so what I'll do is trim it.

Remember, I told you, if you put your glue stick on your piece and pull it through, it kind of is easier to work with that way.

So I'll put this down the middle of my bowl and I turn it over to see how much is hanging off the edge and I cut it off like that.

There's a nice curve line, but I also wanted to add those triangles, so I'm going to put a strip of glue across there.

A little too much glue stick, Mrs. Readwright.

Be careful there.

You don't wanna make a mess of it, or make it have a big glob and have it stick to everything.

Upside down and right side up, upside down and right side up.

There we go.

Now I'm gonna glue this onto the table so he can get ready to have his spaghetti.

Now the spaghetti, I decided instead of cutting out a line, I thought I would make it with a piece of yarn.

If you have yarn, that's great.

Otherwise, just cut a little skinny piece of paper.

And I'm going to have the spaghetti on his place.

Now, will the glue come out?

You know, sometimes the glue makes a little bit of an effort to be stuck and sometimes people stick a paperclip in the hole.

Oh, look, it's coming out.

I'm gonna maybe do this to it and then have it all in his bowl and around up on his tummy like he's getting ready to eat it.

So I still need to make his mouth, don't I?

I can stick this to the glue.

Hopefully it won't stick to my fingers more than it sticks to the paper.

I did bring a little bottle of my liquid glue.

It's just glue mixed in with water.

I mixed it up about a year ago when we were doing a different project and it's just stayed great 'cause I leave the lid on and it then can be used for different projects.

This does try and stick to me.

I'm gonna cut it off a little bit smaller, but you can notice this is a nice example of a line that goes walking through space.

There we go.

Now, will it stay or is it trying to stick to my fingers instead?

Sometimes I use something like my scissors or something else to make it stay.

Now, I'm going to give him some purple eyes.

Oh, it's a purple-y blue.

We've got it going here.

And I think I will use my white to make his zigzag mouth.

Broke that.

Remember what I talked about with the pastels, how they will sometimes break?

And here he is, a really good example of him.

And I'm going to give him some hair because in the book, the monster's hair is all standing up.

Now, when we made something with lines, I told you I wanted to put lines on his table.

Check.

I said I wanted to put patterns on the bowl.

Check.

And I also wanted to make some lines for his hair, which is another check.

So here we go.

Would it be good if I did a couple more colors of hair?

Maybe.

He could be a multi-colored hair guy.

Now, boys and girls, I'm looking at our line art and thinking it looks pretty good.

Maybe I should color his teeth in so it looks like he's more of a biter instead of just a zigzag mouth, but you know, it makes it look like a shape rather than a line this way.

And if we want to remember, a line is open, it doesn't close up because once it closes up, it makes it into a shape.

So here is my monster, my line monster.

Can you look at yours?

Does yours have a curve line?

Can you look at yours?

Does it have a zigzag line?

Does yours have some straight lines, some thinner lines?

Well, we'll hang this up so that during the week, we can look at the line project that we did.

Now, tomorrow, we're going to be making magic carpets.

You know the story that is on magic carpets, you sit on it and it takes you all out into space, but we know that's just a make believe story, but I thought it would be fun to use a magic carpet project to practice our patterns and our shapes, which you got an idea of doing right here.

I made some patterns and some shapes.

The pattern was something that repeated itself.

So tomorrow, to make the magic carpets, so if you'll bring, again, colored paper, glue, scissors, I'm bringing a hole punch 'cause I thought a bunch of polka dots would be kind of fun, and I thought yarn to make the fringes on the edge of the magic carpets, which ends up being kind of like the same materials we used today, so keep those in a safe space.

Let's do our goodbye song and we'll do it kind of like the hello song.

Let me set this down 'cause I really do like to do the pattern on my legs, and what it is is it's a clap, hit-hit, clap, hit-hit.

♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye ♪ ♪ Give a smile and wink your eye ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends ♪ Get ready for the week because the seven elements, the ones we're learning are line, shape, color, texture, and form, and there will be a project for each time and I'll try and bring a book so that your teachers might introduce it using a book.

Until tomorrow, boys and girls, have a great day and I will see you when we make our magic carpets.

(upbeat acoustic guitar music)