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

Now we are doing art that has hearts in it all week long.

We're celebrating Valentine's Day all week long.

Monday started us off, Tuesday, we did heart art, and today we're doing another love wall, the "Bleeding Hearts" mural by James Goldcrown.

That's right.

And remember, we talked about him yesterday, that he was born in London and he stayed in London for a while, started taking photographs of people in their fashion, and he worked in a dark room.

And he worked for a long time doing that, and then realized that he could blend his own art in with the fashion, and start doing art on his own.

And he was known as a street artist, and street artists are ones who usually do graffiti art and spray paint and do big murals.

Or, we know that when we learned about Diego Rivera, he was a muralist.

He wasn't called a street artist, because he wasn't one of those pop artists who do the spray paint on the wall.

He used a palette and painted big, giant stories on walls.

But James Goldcrown was a young man, who was a street artist, and he was put together in a whole group of people, like Keith Herring and Andy Warhol, and considered a pop artist.

Now, we also know that after a while he went to Africa, because he had heard about a lot of people who were very sick, and he wanted to make a movie about it.

And any movie that he made and money from people seeing it, he would give to those people, to help their doctors help them get better.

So when he made that documentary film and sold it, he sold it for $10,000.

His awards came and he gave all of that money to those sick people, which was super helpful.

Shall we sing a good morning song and then get started on our art?

And we'll do the "Hello, nice to see you, everyone."

♪ 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 ♪ Do you notice I like to clap it out?

I know a lot of you got rhythm sticks in your classrooms.

The music department sent them to all TK classrooms, so that you can do the kind of rhythm.

when we sing that, if you have those, any sticks like that, or you can even bring in sticks from outside, and do your sticks together.

I know children who use their pens and do it.

Don't ever do it with pencils, 'cause it breaks the lead that's inside.

But if you do it with a pen, you can do this.

♪ Hello, nice to see you, everyone ♪ Do you hear how we keep a steady beat?

I know your teachers took the music class, and know how to keep a steady beat.

So that's kind of fun to do.

All right, so we wanted to talk about James Goldcrown's art, and his "Love Wall, "Bleeding Hearts."

Now the one we're looking at today, it's called the Greenleaf Chopshop.

And it's a place where they chop up vegetables.

It's not a place that chops up cars.

But it's in Venice, California.

And it's a great big wall.

And yesterday's was more of a smeared art, and each outline was kind of fuzzy and kind of blended together.

But this one again, it's called "Love Wall Bleeding Hearts."

And they even have the hashtag up here, so that people can take pictures of it, and go to that and put their pictures on, so he can see how many people have visited his mural.

And when we go to do our art, I have a giant blow up of it.

Now we are going to do it differently.

He has done his hearts with spray paint and tested them on his studio door to see how long it takes before they drip.

But we are not using spray paint.

We're going to cut out hearts this time, outline them with black, and overlap them how he did.

Now notice how the white does pop out on here.

He even has a black heart here and here, and dark navy blue ones.

They're all different colors.

Now I brought some bright colors to use when I'm going to be making mine.

And you can decide if you want to use bright colors.

And think about as you're cutting them out, "Oh this is a warm color," or, "Oh, this is a cool color."

And when you practice that, when you go to talk about art in your classroom, or if you go to a museum with your family, you can say, "Oh I like the way this artist used warm colors in the background.

Oh, notice how this artist used some kinds of cool colors in their sky."

And you can talk about art in a smart way, and it makes people who are with you talk about art in a smart way too.

And it's very fun to do that.

And I know when children have left my art class and I see them as grownups, they say that they go to museums and really know how to look at art now, because they can look at the line.

Or if they look at the color, they can talk about the texture of the art.

Any of that is so important to do when you're talking about art, and all of those we learned when we did the elements lessons.

And this week I wanted to talk more about balance, and about, oh, I have a poster I can show it tomorrow that tells about all the things that are the principles of art, 'cause the elements are one section, and the principles of art are another.

So today we're gonna talk about balance, and we want, just like yesterday you don't wanna put all your orange hearts together, or all of the yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, blue, blue, blue blue.

You want to have a balance of some warm colors here and some cool colors here when you do your art.

All right, so let me get my table up.

I'll set these things aside.

And I'm getting my black paper, because we're using black again.

And the reason is because James Goldcrown did his artwork with a dark background so that these colors really pop.

Now look how big the hearts are, and notice that these don't make like just a little letter C. It's like a big elbow, and a big elbow with a deep V in the middle.

So when we do this if you want yours to look like his and be inspired by this, that is what I'm doing.

So you decide how you want to do it.

And I wanted also to show you two different ways you might be doing it.

So let me put my black paper here.

I got a little bit of the paper that I wipe my fingers off on the water got on there, but that's okay.

And look at the variety of color I brought.

I put it kind of in rainbow order with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and these couple purple and magenta.

And I thought wouldn't this be nice.

Look, warm, warm, warm, warm, cool, cool, cool, cool.

So I think I'm going to start out with a red one.

Now when you do a heart, you can make it by folding your paper.

And on the fold, if you put your thumb there, and you could use a pencil, I'll show you how I do it.

I open my hand.

Now remember this part of the fold of your hand goes on the fold of the paper.

So I put that there, and I start at the corner with my pencil and I go up around my thumb in a deep V. Let's see how this looks, if it turns out to be a good heart, or whether I need to think of a different way.

So I start on the point, remember my fold.

I'm keeping my finger on the fold.

Do not cut the fold off.

Oh, and it doesn't really, it's not a big deal if you do, 'cause you can always glue it back together when you glue it on your paper.

Is this gonna have a deep V?

It looks to me like it is.

Let me hold it up against my apron.

Now, see what happens when I open it up.

Will it have a deep V like?

Oh, look Look how deep the V is.

Now I can do this.

I can cut out all my hearts, or I can start out this way.

Now, remember if you're using a black permanent pen, put something under it, because the black permanent pen when it says permanent, that means it stays.

So I'm going to go around it now, and put my black permanent pen around it.

Now you know that our guy, James Goldcrown, oh, boys and girls, look how I bumped.

There's something under my cardboard.

I think I don't like that.

That makes a big mess.

So watch what I'm going to do.

I'm going to make one, just like it.

I have to be more careful, because this is a bumpity piece of cardboard.

I could probably just do it on my clipboard and not have that happen again.

I'm just gonna go around it.

Now, I don't suggest this to you, because this is a hard thing to do.

But since I am a grownup, who's been cutting a long time, I didn't draw around it.

So I'm going to put this and open it up again.

Mm-hmm.

It still has that deep V. So I'm gonna put my clipboard here, to make sure that it doesn't bump over.

So I'm gonna go around.

Now, here was the part I said, you might wanna do this step before cutting it out, because trying to trace around the edge of it is hard.

And it does not have to be perfect, but already I can tell it might be a hard thing for you to do.

So what I suggest then is this.

Look how that turned out.

It looks good now.

Now, I'm gonna show you what I'm talking about if you draw it first.

So if I put my thumb here, and I can trace around.

Maybe I'll still do it with my pencil before doing it with a black pen.

But I'll go around my thumb and down to the bottom, and then I go around one just like it over here.

I think that will work.

But watch what happens now.

Rather than trying to trace it after I cut it, I'll go around this pencil line like this, and see how that looks.

That was a little easier, don't you think?

We can try a couple of strategies.

You decide which works better for you.

And then I'll get close to the black line without cutting it all the way off.

And any little mark that looks like it kind of jutted out, I can cut it off.

(scissors cutting) And this would be something you could work on for a while and then set aside and come back to you, because do you see how long it's taking me just to cut out two hearts?

Kind of a long time.

Now some of you probably get worried if your things will get lost, and you might wanna glue 'em right on.

I like to make them, and stack them, and keep them over here.

I just noticed something else, boys and girls.

If I cut all of the black off, then you see the black paper, but I'll show you what I'm going to do this time.

Let me get a piece of this bright orange.

Oh, this is so rich.

When a color is really deep and lovely, it's called rich.

Rich color.

So I'm gonna put my thumb down, and I'm going to go around my thumb with a deep V and I hit right in the middle of my hand.

I can't flip my hand over very easily, but I guess I could, or someone could help you, and you could trace around your thumb and go down with a deep V. I'll show you again.

Excuse me.

When I go around the heart, I think it would be good to leave a little rim of that color.

See how we're testing things out as we work.

I tried this at home, but I didn't think of the possibilities of having a variety.

And I'm going to leave a little orange paper, get close to the black, but not cut it off.

And I think when I put it on the black paper it will look even better, and you can help me decide which way looks best.

I'm going to get up here, staying close to that black line, but not cutting it off.

Still getting close.

I just make sure the point of my scissors are going where I want them to go, 'cause wherever the points are going that's where the cut will happen.

Okay, let's take a look.

Here is one heart with a little rim of the color left.

Here's the heart with the black completely.

See you don't really see the outline.

You decide what's best for you.

Let's do a few more.

I think I did red and orange.

I'll do a yellow one now.

If you have a hard time making the hearts, and you think, "Well, I want a couple of them the same size.

Maybe I'll just trace around this one."

And you try and do it without make, oh, maybe I'll flip it over.

Flip it over and you can trace around it.

I think this red one had a really great shape, and it really looked like James's big deep V. The big deep V is showing up.

So that way I can just go around.

And I really like the look of the one that has a little rim of the color showing once I get near the black, but not cutting the black completely off.

I wonder if you think the same thing.

And I will put this one, and what am I doing?

Getting close to the black, but not cutting it off.

Getting close to the black.

Oh, and I'm doing something I told you is much easier, if you go around it first.

For young cutters, it's easier to cut that around, because then it's just so much easier to move your hand around.

Are you remembering that you put your thumb in the top hole and fingers in the bottom, and you keep your thumb on top.

It's like he's king of the roost.

Have you ever done a thumb war, when they say, "1, 2, 3, 4, let's have a thumb war."

Well, the king is the strong, strong thumb.

So that's how I remember to keep my thumb on top when I'm cutting things out.

Oh, that one looks pretty good too, boys and girls.

Look.

And it's not exactly the same one, because that one fits in it.

You can still see.

I kind of like that.

Look how that's doing there.

I think I don't want this one to be lost on the paper, so I think I'll trace around it and do it, and then just put this with something else.

I'll use the paper, 'cause I don't like to waste.

But I'll go around it with my deep V. And go around this big heart.

Get the deep V on this side.

Mm-hmm.

Bye, mister, won't be seeing you again.

Up and around.

Oh, this pen is, I'm not pressing too hard, but it's got a soft tip, and it's kind of bending.

I brought a whole bunch of black permanent pens though, so if that one doesn't work out, I can always use another one.

Close to the black without cutting it off.

Now, if you want to keep the black on, like I did with the one that I just set aside, I'll show you.

If I didn't have black paper as my background, you wouldn't need to leave this little rim on.

You can decide what your background paper is.

I just did black, because I like to be inspired by the artist and kind of do things the way that he did, and then letting you choose for yourself.

But let's look what it would look like if I were to put it on a piece of white paper.

Look how it shows up here.

That looks great with just leaving the black on there.

You can decide which one looks the best.

Still need to do more.

And I wanted to look at my inspiration paper, and see if it fills up the space.

Look how much it does fill up the space.

I also wanted to point out, you can see little black drips.

Look at this orange one.

He spray painted orange first, and then took his black paint and went around, and that one dripped a little.

And that's why he calls it "Bleeding Heart," 'cause the paint bleeds down onto the next one.

A little tiny bleed here.

I imagine when he goes around and starts back here, when he sprays on top of a wet place, the paint builds up and it drips down.

Have you ever been painting at an easel at school and you put your brush down if you didn't wipe it off well, and it bleeds down?

And I always say, "Catch that runaway paint."

You can either make that into, if it's a house, you can make it into grass, or you can add a car in front or a tree.

So never worry that your artwork is ruined, because we always can save our art.

All right, so let's go back to this.

I wanted you to see this really deep V. I'm going to make one like that, because I like the looks of it.

And I think I will use, what color haven't I used yet?

I have, oh, maybe that really blueish purple.

That will be pretty.

Now I'm gonna fold it and do my thumb up closer to the fold.

I'm gonna make it standing up higher so that it has a really deep V, but the heart is up high.

See what we think about that one.

Now what happens if I cut out a heart that I don't really love the look of it?

Well, I'll just set it asides, and use that paper for something else.

But this one, I think, is going to look like a good, deep V. It is, and it's a little deeper than any of the ones I have.

So I did it again where I cut it, and I'm gonna have to draw inside.

That was a little harder.

I probably should have gone around the pencil mark, but it's okay.

I'll go more slowly this time, and leave a little rim.

I can start out by making the V, and then make the C, 'cause we've learned how to really look at our heart shape and how we see different things in it, a V and a C, forward and backward.

All right.

That was a good color.

I think I'll put this back over here, my inspiration.

I like the look of the white one.

When we talk about the principles of art, we talk about emphasis as one of them.

And emphasis means, what's the first thing your eye lands on?

So if you're looking at my hearts like this, and you know what, if you like to you could just throw them down and glue them like that, however they land.

But if you want to place them intentionally, that's fine too.

I'd like to try a white heart.

And I think I will use one of the deep V ones, and see how that looks.

And I'm gonna keep, remember when I tell you to save your paper by going as far are down at the bottom, or to the corner that you can, and draw around it.

Now, if you need someone to hold it, you can do that.

Like, if someone holds it down like this, and then you use your pencil and go around, that's a fun way to do it.

Or I often see on my sewing show, they put rocks on top of their pattern, and the rock holds it down on their paper so that they can trace around it themselves without any help.

Oh, boys and girls, look what I was doing again.

How dare I. I was tracing before, and then I made it there, so that I could do this around it before cutting it off, and then I forgot to do it.

I'm so busy chatting to you about my sewing show.

I think I got excited about my sewing show.

On my sewing show, they create fashion.

And you know, we talked about James Goldcrown and how he was interested in fashion.

Well, on the sewing show, they make different outfits and they have people see how nicely they made it, and they try and figure out who's is the best.

That's the hard part, 'cause then they send people home who didn't win.

Winning a prize in art is hard to do.

I think when you do your art, you wanna just enjoy it, and not worry if someone is gonna give you a prize for it.

But, I don't know, some people like that too.

Let's see, I'm gonna go through my rainbow colored paper, and I want you to say "check" to yourself if you see it.

Do I have a red one?

Check.

Do I have an orange one?

Check.

Do I have a yellow one?

Check.

Do I have a purple one?

Check.

Do I have a magenta one?

Check.

Do I have a green one?

No.

Let's get the green out.

Now, which heart haven't I done a lot of?

Maybe this one.

I'm gonna trace around it, just 'cause it's easier to do by tracing.

I just have to remember, make sure it has a deep V, and I might even make it a little different.

Now remember, I'm gonna see if one of these pens is getting a little better than that one, because that one's starting to wear out.

I'll go along, get on my clipboard, so it's nice and stiff.

Oh, there we go.

I'm going around it, and around with the deep V. And around the deep V. And I'm going to go to the cut.

Close, but not all the way off.

Close to the black line.

Oh, I got so close to the edge of the paper, I almost didn't leave myself room.

I have to remember to keep that in mind.

Boys and girls, we're not going to talk about James Goldcrown tomorrow.

Tomorrow, it's going to be Romero Britto.

Now I did not know about Romero Britto, but when I was trying to find things that had heart art, his name came up, and people were saying to me, "You've never heard of him.

He's famous."

And I said, "Well, I'm gonna find out about him."

But if you wanna do the art with me tomorrow, I'm bringing white paper and colored markers.

I'm going to bring either watercolors or oil pastels, but I'm also bringing a black permanent marker 'cause that's part of it too.

I think what I need to do is glue these down and start off with it.

And while I'm doing this, we can sing goodbye to one another, because it's coming to the end of the day.

So we'll say, ♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to me ♪ ♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ You notice how I'm getting these glued together.

I'm doing some of them sideways, some of them kind of perpendicular to the other ones.

Getting these glued on, I have to make sure I go around the outside.

Boys and girls, it sure has been fun doing the heart art with you and James Goldcrown.

And I hope that you'll join me tomorrow, because we are going to be doing some happy art.

That's what Romero Britto is famous for, is happy art.

Can you imagine what it's about?

He does a whole thing about happy days and happy art, and I'm going to be reading a book called, "Happy."

So I hope to see you tomorrow.

Maybe you'll send me a picture of your artwork.

That would be great.

All right, boys and girls, I will see you tomorrow.

Have a happy day.

Bye, bye.

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