(guitar music) - Hello early learners.

And welcome back to the art room.

We have a big week planned this week because I'm going to read a book that tells about a little rabbit and his owner Josette.

And as we read that, we're going to find that they meet many different artists.

And we're gonna talk about each of those, and she show a print each time.

So let's do our oh, it's time to say hello to all our friends.

♪ 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.

♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say hello.

♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say hello to all my friends.

♪ Hello everyone, alrighty.

So let me just tell you who we're going to meet first.

And it is Pepette.

Now Pepette you can see is a little rabbit and he looks like a little rabbit who is loved, and I'm going to get the book and read about Pepette.

And then we'll meet the artists and look at our prints and move from there.

So take a look at Pepette because when we do art about him, we'll see that he has a roundish face.

He has an egg shaped body, long skinny legs, long skinny arms and little skinny ears that are white on the inside of him.

But as we paint him, we can paint him however we like.

And you'll notice that happens with each of the artists.

All right, let's take a look at our book.

The name of our story is "Painting Pepette."

Now I just did introduced you to Pepette, and we will look at the book and see what happens.

It's written by Linda Ravid Lodding and it's illustrated by Claire Fletcher.

Take a look at the cover, many framed pictures.

And why is that so?

Maybe in your house, you have many framed pictures that are pictures of family.

And that is exactly what this book is about.

Let's get to the first page.

I want you to notice in the story there are a lot of words that end with -ette, like Peppette, where they live is an -ette ending.

The last name is -ette so you'll hear Pepette, Etette, -ette, -ette.

Take a look, here is Josette carrying Pepette and let's read the book here.

Josette Bobette and her rabbit Peppette lived at number nine Rue Lafayette, Paris.

Jossette adored Pepette and took her everywhere.

Does anyone know this building that's famous in Paris?

It's called the Eiffel tower.

But their favorite thing to do was to cuddle on the window seat in the Bobette's great room.

This great room was filled with fine art.

There was a portrait of Josette's mother, Her grand mare, her grand pere.

There were paintings of the petite Bobettes, Jeannette, Juliette and Josette.

There was even a portrait of their schnoodle, Frisette.

Do you notice there's a missing place here?

What do you think should go there?

One day Josette noticed something strange.

There was no portrait of Pepette.

"We must find an artist to paint your portraits," said Josette and it has to be special just like you.

So the two friends set off to Montmartre where the best artists in Paris painted.

Easels filled the square, amid the hustle and bustle of people rushing here, there, and everywhere.

And we can see Josette and Pepette just entering the square.

Now a square isn't really just a square.

It's the middle of town where people gather, they call it the town square.

Well, as soon as they turned the corner, a man in a sailor stripe shirt stopped him.

- "Those ears!"

he cried, "Never have I seen such majestic ears.

I must paint this rabbit's portrait."

Josette noticed that Pepette was blushing and that's when your face gets a little pink and a little warm.

Her ears had never been called majestic before.

"Magnifique," said Josette.

"We are looking for an artist."

Does anyone know who this artist is?

I'm wearing a striped shirt today.

You'll see in a little bit to look like I am in his club.

It's Pablo Picasso.

Let's turn the page and see what happens.

The painter propped opened his easel and filled his canvas with not one but two button noses and three rabbit ears.

And when he finished, he waved his paint brush in the air and declared his painting a masterpiece. "

What do you think?"

he asked.

"It's nice," said Josette.

It's just that Pepette only has one nose and two ears, and Pepette had to agree.

And we will find out what happens tomorrow when they leave Picasso and continue through the town square.

So let's meet that artist, Pablo Picasso.

I brought this book because there was one page where I thought it would be great to read a little bit about how cubism, which is what really we think of Pablo Picasso, what hit it means.

And it says about cubism in 1907, Picasso met a French artist named George Brock.

And when they met again, the following year in 1908, they realized that both of them had had the same idea.

Instead of doing paintings a regular way, they were doing paintings and then fracturing them or cutting them up and like he did with the rabbit, putting more than one item on there, like two noses in three ears.

So we're going to take a look at our artist and see if he looks in fact like the artist that we saw in the book, Pablo Picasso.

Let's take a look over at the blue chart.

So let's take a look at Pablo Picasso.

We have met and worked with him many times and he's wearing his signature striped shirt.

And he was the artist that just met Josette and Pepette and painted him, painter her.

I thought Pepette was a boy rabbit, but it's a girl rabbit because they said her.

Let's take a look at this weeping woman that Picasso painted.

Now, remember when we talked about how he does things in a fractured or broken way?

This is a weeping woman that he painted when there was a war in Spain and the people were sad that it was happening.

And you can see that he has really two faces.

If I held up this and covered up part of the face, you will see this side of the face is looking forward and it has kind of the same sad teeth and face.

But then look at this one, there's a second one looking that same direction.

There are two eyes, but they're not balanced on the face.

There's this nose and this nose.

And we want to take a look at that because Picasso did it as if he had dropped it like a Humpty Dumpty.

And when he put it back together, it was put back together in a strange way.

Now let's look down here at this part where it was Josette's mother and grandmother and grandfather and the three sisters and then their dog and there is no Peppette here.

So when they went to see Picasso, this is what he painted.

Here is Pepette with a big eye and a little eye and three noses and oh, actually two noses and three ears.

So when we draw ours today, this is one that a child did already because I wanted to see how it would work out.

If we did the directions where there's a round head and an egg shaped body, and two arms, two legs, two ears is all this child drew.

And but they put their teeth over here and a nose over here and the cheeks are there.

So as we do our drawing today, we'll see how you have created yours.

I also wanted to tell you about Pablo Picasso's line drawing.

Let me hold this up.

This was Picasso's line drawings, helped us appreciate his talent.

They were quick and as a matter of fact, he used one single line to draw these.

And he did it.

He made birds and dogs and cats.

But since we're talking about rabbits, I brought the rabbit ones, so look, he goes are around around the ear, never picking up his pencil down and around the tail, down and around the leg, up for the front leg and the leg out.

This one's also a single line up and around the ear, around the ear, around the back tail and under.

This rabbit too.

So Picasso is not only known for as paintings.

He's also known for his line drawings, but we usually study things like this because people seem to think these are too simple, but I wanted to point those out to you, especially since they are rabbits.

I have a little chant I was going to chant to you today and it's kind of, I sing it to my hat has three corners it goes.

♪ If Picasso painted Pepette ♪ ♪ What would we see?

♪ ♪ What would we get?

♪ So we're going to draw a picture with Picasso as our inspiration.

So go ahead and get your white paper, a black permanent pen, and some coloring tools for us to get started.

All right, let's begin our project.

Let me pick up my table and put it on my lap.

Get my paper.

Here's my white paper.

And I have a bunch of different black permanent pens.

Cause I mean, I put my paper standing up so that we can draw Pepette's head, round head, egg shaped body, arms and legs.

Alrighty, so get your paper ready.

Here we go.

All right, let's get started.

What I thought we could do is just draw the outline of the bunny and then crack up the face and make the strange pieces afterward.

Now, if I'm using a piece of paper this large, I would start with my head here because I have to think about the body and the legs and the arms and the ears.

So make sure you have at least a hands distance at the top to put the ears on.

So here we go.

So I'm gonna use my fist as a measurement and put it there.

And first do the round head.

And I'm using a black pen.

You may want to use a pencil and go over it with black, but I like just starting out the same way I'm going to draw.

Now, I'm going to draw Pepette's body like an egg shape.

And I'll turn and show you what I've done so far.

Okay.

Now you don't have to put your ears in the same place, I'm do going to do mine, but I'm just gonna do a curve line up and another curve line to meet that.

Did you see how I did that?

I'll try and do it with my hand up with a curve line up.

I try and make them both about the same size and a curve line that meets that.

I'm going to put Pepette's arms coming out.

And it kind of has a bigger place for the hand or the paw because a rabbit doesn't really have what's called a hand and then I'll make Pepette's legs go out, and it has a little foot.

And Peppette's other leg and a little foot.

Now here's the part where we want it to make it look kind of like a Picasso picture.

And what I'm going to do is split the face.

And this one's a little skinnier pen.

So starting at the top of my head, I'm going to go down and make a little nose and cut the face in half.

And here's how I did that.

Now we know a rabbit's nose is really like a triangle.

So I'm going to draw a triangle on that.

And when we do a face of a rabbit, usually the mouth goes down and op and a little U to make it a little rabbit face.

Now I'm going to put one eye kind of crazy over here.

And one eye may be up here.

You decide where you think you want to make your rabbit look a little Cubist.

I'm going to put the round eyeball in there and the round eyeball in there.

I think it is more interesting if I put an eyelid because when I go to color it, it will look even more interesting.

You decide.

Maybe I will put another ear on here and make it crazy.

Like the artist in the book did.

Do you have to?

No, but I think I might even put a nose looking sideways like that, a triangle nose.

So that side of the face can look out.

Maybe I'll put some eyelashes on that one too.

You can make yours however you would like.

And I think I might even put a couple of teeth here on a smile 'cause you know how they have rabbits, when they eat their carrots, it makes them seem like they're have some big teeth to cut them up.

I'm going to put a little furry part on the rabbit's tummy.

You can do that if you'd like.

I like to make my rabbits have little finger paws 'cause a rabbit's foot is supposed to be known as a lucky rabbit's foot.

And I don't know why that is, but when I was the girl, that's what people told me.

Oh, a lucky rabbit's foot.

They would talk about it at our carnival because you could get the rabbit's foot at the carnival, the school carnival.

I know lots of schools have carnivals that they have prizes that you can win.

I'm making some furry lines inside my ears so that when I go to color this, I can color it in with some colors that make it look interesting.

I think this one ear is not dark enough.

I'm gonna use that fatter pen and go over it again to make it look like the other ears.

All right, boys and girls.

Now you may use any coloring tool that you would like.

I have brought almost all my coloring tools and I think I'm going to start out with my watercolor pencils because I like the look of the softness that the colored pencils bring to my artwork.

If you don't have colored pencils and or if you want to use your water colors, you can use crayons.

You can use whatever you'd like, I'm going to start out so that I can make my rabbit's nose pink.

So I'm gonna use my pink colored pencil and color both of my noses.

So I remember that they are kind of different.

So I'm coloring in my nose.

You can color yours however you'd like, they don't have to be realistic colors because you know, Picasso's got a lot of different colors besides doing funny shaped things and more than one thing.

So then, you know, with my colored pencils, I can watercolor it and fill it in.

And now I've got a little pink on my brush, I could put the inside of my ear kind of pinky, which is what I like to do.

But that's not very crazy.

Like you think of Cubist paintings when they do things kind of wacky.

So I'm gonna bring in some other colors in a minute, but I'm going to do this one and you notice, I'm just doing one color at a time 'cause it's easier when you're painting.

You don't have to change your brush as often and clean it.

You can clean your brush or change it.

I think I'll put a little pink on the fingers.

I think I will put some rosy cheeks on my bunny.

And I'll make those fill in with my water.

Regular colored pencils remember do not do this.

They don't melt when you touch the crayons to it.

Even though I do want to do some different colors.

I'm gonna put some brown on his ears and his body, 'cause I know that all week long, we're going to be doing rabbits with different colors.

And I think that I will do this half of his face brown don't color the teeth in Mrs Readwright.

And color this side with brown and maybe the other side, I'll do with green.

Make him, oh, maybe this foresty green and I'll paint this side a different color.

So you can see a little bit different colors in my composition.

So it will look a little bit more Cubist.

Now get my paint brush and I can wipe it off on my paint and fill it in.

Once I touch the paint brush to the paint, the colored pencil melts kind of and makes it into a watercolor.

That's why they call it watercolor pencils.

Filling this in and going around here.

I think I'll make the eye lid a really funny color.

What color will I do?

Maybe a purple eye or put purple eye lid.

Oh yeah, that's kind of magenta looking.

That will look good.

Can color that one in, fill that.

I'll do a blue one on the other side.

Maybe turquoise over here.

Wonder what color eye would look good with those two eyelids.

There we go.

Maybe I'll make it a navy blue eye.

Yes, I'll make it a Navy blue eye on this side.

And maybe a Navy blue eye on that side too.

Are you coloring yours?

Does it look like you're doing something different from mine?

I know some of you are doing this during your school time 'cause I've been going into classes all week long and seeing last week's episode of heart art and people were doing all of the heart art and I got to see people working on their projects and I was so happy to see that no one's really looked like their neighbors.

You can get an idea or we always call it our inspiration.

You can get an idea from a friend, but it's better to get your own ideas.

And when we talk about Salvador Dali tomorrow, you're going to find out that he just wanted to be himself.

Every time in the book when I'm going to give you a chance to tell part of the story with me and you'll say he was just trying to be himself.

He didn't wanna be like other artists.

And he was, he had some funny things.

He put a shoe on his head, wait till you see the things that he does.

Shall I tell you now what you're going to bring tomorrow?

Just so that you'll have an idea and think, wait, do I have one of those?

And what could I use instead?

I'm going to keep this part of my eyes still white, 'cause I think you can see the eyes better.

Now I think I still want to do a brown body.

I think I'll go around that soft middle part with my brown colored pencil.

I'm using it on the side of it 'cause it seems to shade it in better.

And then when I go to paint it, it has more colored pencil to move around with the water.

I also have my regular water colors and I also have my regular colored pencils.

Let's see how this looks when I paint it in.

I'm getting a bigger brush.

I just am reaching over and getting more water.

Oh I like how that looks.

Yep, kind of a reddish brown.

I love to look at the crayons and see what colors they named the crayons.

Because then when you describe things to people, you can say, oh it is kind of like a burnt sienna or oh, that looks more like raw umber.

That color crayons have really interesting names.

And you can see also they made the same idea when they get paint swatches and you go to the paint store and you say, oh I'd like some of that crystal and blue or gee, I'd like that moss green for my wall.

How do you think it's coming along boys and girls?

Can you see the fur in the middle is kind of yellowish brown.

All right.

I think I'm going to make his arm a dark brown and maybe I'll make it be striped like Picasso shirt and I'll go up his arm with a stripe.

I can fill it in with another color if I want the stripes on his bunny rabbit arms to be varied colors.

I think I need a smaller brush that one's starting to make the stripe too thick.

All right.

Oops, should have washed my brush off a little bit.

That was lot of water.

Have to remember boys and girls, that's why I keep a paper towel on my table.

Just so that if I need to dry my brush off, 'cause if you use a brush, that's so loaded with water, it'll make your watercolor so dull because it gets em too watery.

Okay, now I think that looks good, but I think I will make some golden brown between it.

Oh, there's a little water from me not rinsing my brush off, wiping my brush off and I don't even have to paint over those that already did it with the pencil.

I was going to tell you about these pencils.

You know, I told you I got them when I was in Yosemite at the Ansel Adams gift shop, but they have them at the art stores in town and I'm sure they probably have them.

I know you can get them online too.

But this set, I think costs a about $15.

That's a lot of money for art supplies.

But if you save your birthday money, if people send you money, maybe you can save them up.

I think I'll make some polka dots on her legs down here.

Kind of like Yayoi.

All right.

Let me tell you about tomorrow because I can see that we're getting close to the end of the session.

Tomorrow, we're going to be meeting Salvador Dali.

Now Salvador Dali is known for one of his paintings where things are kind of melty in the persistence of memory.

So you're gonna bring white paper and brown paint if you have it.

A sponge because as I'm gonna print with my sponge and print on my paper like this, if you have a pie pan or paper towels, I'm bringing in some fishing line to make some whiskers for my rabbit.

So that is for tomorrow.

For now, I'm gonna finish this up.

We'll sing goodbye to one another and I will see you tomorrow.

Alrighty.

So I'm just going to finish painting up these polka dots and tell you goodbye.

♪ 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.

♪ Thanks for coming in and meeting Pepette and Josette.

See you tomorrow.

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