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

This week we've been talking about the book Painting Pepette.

And Pepette and Josette go to France and meet several different artists for a job that Josette needs done.

Let's sing our good morning song, and then we'll jump right into the book, ready?

♪ 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 ♪ So we're going to take a look at the book, we'll read from the beginning, just in case you were not here on the first two days, and catch up with who we're meeting today, Marc Chagall.

So we met Pablo Picasso.

We've already met Salvador Dali and today is Marc Chagall, who we've studied before.

Let's take a look at the book.

Let's start reading our book, Painting Pepette by Linda Ravin Lodding, illustrated by Claire Fletcher.

And we have Pepette sitting off to the side, listening to the story about her.

Let's take a look of what happened.

We know it's about portraits and we did a whole study of portraits in the past, but we've already met Mr. Picasso.

Mr. Dali, and now today, we're going to meet Mr. Chagall.

Let's find out what happens.

And you'll notice all the ette sounds.

Painting Pepette.

Josette Bobette and her rabbit Pepette lived at nine, Rue Lafette, Paris.

Josette adored Pepette, and took her everywhere.

Even to 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.

There were paintings of grand-mere, which means grandmother and grand-pere, which is grandfather.

There were the paintings of the petite Bobette's.

Jeanette, Juliette, and Josette.

There was even a portrait of their schnoodle, Frizette.

And we thought maybe a schnoodle was a schnauzer and a poodle mix.

Well, one day Josette noted something strange.

There was no portrait of Pepette.

We must find an artist to paint your portrait said Josette.

And it has to be special just like you.

So the two friends sent off for Montmartre where the best artists in Paris painted.

And here they are, here's Josette and Pepette.

And they see all the artists with their easels set up and other people are looking around and shopping too.

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

As soon as they turn the corner, a man in a sailor striped shirt stopped them.

Those ears, he cried, never have I seen such majestic ears.

I must paint this rabbit's portrait.

(vocalizing) Josette noticed that Pepette was blushing.

Her ears had never been called majestic before.

Magnifique said Josette.

We are looking for an artist.

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

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 has only one nose and two ears and Pepette had to agree.

Mhmm.

Just then a man with a mustache as wide as bicycle handlebars strode by.

What a divine creature he said, twirling the ends of Pepette's whiskers.

Please, I must paint the very essence of her rabbitness.

The man painted a most unusual portrait.

You like, asked the painter, motioning to his canvas.

Josette stood back.

It's imaginative she said trying to find just the right words, but you painted Pepette quite well, droopy.

And Pepette had to agree.

Mhmm.

Moments later, another painter wandered by.

He stopped in his tracks when he spotted Pepette.

Oh, that nose like a faint star twinkling in a misty velvet night.

As he bowed to Josette a shock of black curls flopped over one eye.

May I paint your friend?

My easel is just across the square.

(gasps) Pepette would like that said Josette.

Well, certainly this artist would paint just the right portrait, she thought.

What do you think?

Do you think he will paint the perfect painting of Pepette?

Let's find out.

Pepette and Josette hopped through the square until they reached the painter's easel.

More and more people gathered around and looked on as he painted a rabbit, flying through the clouds.

When he finished he admired his painting.

Oh, one of my best works.

I like the clouds said Josette But Pepette doesn't like to fly.

She's scared of heights.

And Pepette had to agree.

Mhmm.

And let's find out if the painting pleases them.

As we read again tomorrow.

In the past, when we studied Chagall, we saw pictures that he would, oh, often have goats in his pictures.

He often had characters flying through the sky.

He often did pictures of his old town in Russia.

And I have a book that shows about life as just a dream.

And I wanted to show you a couple of things in here because Chagall painted dream like subjects that told about his own personal life.

He painted his world and his life, and all the things he loved, and all the things he dreamed of, and all the things that he wasn't able to say in words.

He painted pictures of his beloved Russia and the neighborhood where he grew up.

Well, in this picture that we're going to study today.

It's called Blue Circus.

And Marc Chagall loved going to the circus, especially, when he took his daughter Ida with him.

Well, they had a friend who had box seats, which means they got very close to the circus and like his pictures, this circus was colorful and it had marvelous figures.

And in this picture, when we look at it, I want you to see if you can find the chicken right away, because the chicken is beating on a drum.

And there's also a shining moon.

Then it's grown a fin.

There's a violin in there, a fish that's flying through the air.

And I chose it because of the flying characters.

Just like what we heard in the Painting Pepette.

So let's take a look at the blue chart at the picture of Chagall and his paintings.

And here is the picture of our artist, Marc Chagall.

He is looking intently into the camera and letting you see that he is very interested in his painting.

I found a picture of him with the paintbrush in his hand.

And we know about him.

I just told you a little bit about he was from Russia.

And a lot of things he painted were in a dreamy kind of state.

So let's take a look at this, the Blue Circus.

Now the interesting thing about Chagall, he could put many different subjects in his painting and it doesn't look messy, it's all in harmony.

First of all, let's look at the colors.

He often uses red, green, and yellow, and the whole thing is called the Blue Circus.

So you know that there's a lot of blue in here.

We really focus on this woman who is doing a jump.

She's on a trapeze, hanging from the strings of, the ropes that come from the ceiling and she's flying through the air.

And on her leg there is that chicken.

They call it a cockerel, a chicken beating on a drum.

But you know, lots of things happen at the circus.

We don't know if maybe there really was a chicken playing on the drum.

There's a fish that's flying up above and holding a bouquet of flowers.

You see the green goat.

We saw a green man in one of our pictures before that we did the art from.

Down here there's a sunrise, but you don't even see this woman in the corner.

She has a heart on her dress and she's also doing some fancy moves.

So what we're going to do today is we're going to draw our rabbit floating through the air with some clouds and we're going to paint it blue.

So it won't be a blue circus, but we're getting our inspiration from this picture.

So let's see what the one from the book looked like.

Here is the bunny.

We see it from the profile.

So we're seeing it from the side, just like we did yesterday.

So we'll draw the face out this way, the body out with the legs behind and the arms forward as if they're floating through the air.

And then the ears will, I'm doing my ears back.

As I tell you that I'm getting my inspiration from the book.

You can draw your rabbit doing any kind of motion.

If you want it to look like this one, the trapeze artist, you can put the bunny's arms over it's head.

You can have it's legs criss-crossing in the back.

You decide how you want to do your bunny.

I just show you how I'm going to.

I'm going to be sure to put the moon there and some clouds, or that could be a cloud too, just a round cloud.

And you can put the cloud near your rabbit or not.

And we'll say if Chagall painted Pepette, what would we see?

What would we get?

Alrighty.

I want you to get out your background paper.

You're going to need your coloring tools, a white crayon, and if you have your blue watered down paint and your brushes and water.

Alrighty, let's, me get my table up here to get started.

Put this here and get my white paper.

I'm gonna start out with my pastels.

You can use crayon, anything that's waxy or oily.

It will keep the paint from sticking.

So I'm going to start on here, start my rabbit.

And I have a white crayon so that I can color some clouds in.

And then I'll paint over it with a resist.

Are you ready to get started?

Whenever I'm going to draw something that I don't usually draw very often.

I like to have it near me to see how I would like to put it's body.

I have a wooden mannequin for people, but now I have this little Pepette here.

So I think this is how I will do it.

I will draw on oval for the rabbit's face and put it's ears, I don't know if I'll have him go back.

Like it's floating through the sky.

I'm making the arms go forward and maybe the legs go back.

So I just get an idea.

The head, the oval body, the legs going back and the arms going forward.

And I'll just set it over here.

All right, I'm going to start out with a brown, maybe, this brown will be good.

So I'm going to draw it's egg shaped head looking forward.

I'm going to do it's egg shaped body connected to that.

I'll make it's arms go out forward and I'll make his legs go, her legs go around the back.

One, well that kind of made it look kind of human legs.

And two.

Now the thing about resist, we want to make sure to press hard when we start to color it in.

So I am going to use a lighter color, I think to color it in, maybe this tanny one, more like her real color, and I'm gonna press hard.

(pastel scribbling) And I don't wanna get too carried away and not leave a place for her pink nose and inside the pink ears.

I think crayon works even better for this.

So if that's what you're using, I think you're gonna be in great shape.

So I'm doing that little triangle nose and the pink inside, and the pink inside.

And I might even make her rosy cheeks because remember how she got in, flushed and embarrassed when they complimented her beautiful self.

And I'll use a little black for, oh, I think I'd like to use my permanent pen for her eye.

'Cause that way permanent, the permanent pen will also make it so that it does not bleed.

I think I might even go around her nose so you can see it.

And maybe some whiskers.

There.

I like the look of that.

I'll continue to color in my bunny.

My little Pepette.

If you leave white, wherever you paint, the blue might get in there.

If you don't mind having a little blue on your bunny or you don't have to paint over the bunny at all, you can paint right up to the edge of it and where the wax or oily color is.

The paint will try and stay away from.

And I will go in here and color it in.

And you know, I was talking to some friends in one of the classrooms I visited.

and someone accused someone of scribble scrabble.

You know what that is, when you just take your crayon and just scribble all over.

But we try and tell people, aim and point.

And go up and down, one row after another.

And once you fill in that spot, go to the next spot.

And go back and forth, back and forth, rather than going sometimes this way, sometimes that way.

I'm gonna go around the arm and go down the back of her.

Oh, I didn't put on her little tail.

And I think I really will want a tail to show when she's flying.

There, better.

I kept all my browns on top.

If that's what you like to do, if you like to keep your crayons or your coloring tools in rainbow order, it's easier to find things, but you can see my box, that's how I do it.

I put red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and then the grays, and browns and blacks at the end.

I don't have an order for those, but that way when I'm looking for a color, they're easy to locate and it makes my work more enjoyable for me if I'm organized.

So I'm going up to that.

I know you may not have outlined yours and if you didn't, you'll see how it really does help to see where one part of the body stops.

And another begins.

I also wanted to point out to you, when you're doing drawings like this.

If you just look at the shape of the thing that you're working on and follow that shape, you never have to tell someone, oh, I don't know how to draw.

You just look and say, wait, what is the body of that?

Oh, that cat has triangle ears.

Oh, that dog has ears that are shaped like the letter "u".

Oh, that chicken has a triangle beak.

If you look at things in terms of it being a shape, you'll never have to tell someone you're not able to draw something.

'Cause you can look for the shapes in it and just imitate those shapes.

If you do handwriting without tears, they tell you things are big curves and little curves, big lines and little lines.

And you can look at that on this too.

For instance, I thought, oh, Pepette's leg is really a big line with a little line foot, kind of like mat man.

And that makes it easier to do.

If it's something that you've already learned about, you think, oh, I know how to make mat man.

I can make a mat man bunny.

I can see some little crumbs are on here.

So I'm going shake 'em off on the table.

So I don't get it on the furniture.

(paper wobbling) Let me bring it back down here.

I guess I could just press it in with my finger because we do some moving things around with our fingers when we're working with pastels.

I just have to make sure I get it off of my finger when I'm ready to start painting.

I don't want anything to get on my little, new Pepette.

Alrighty, I will move Pepette up here.

And I think I will color in the tail with a white in case I get near it with my blue paint.

Now you're gonna be surprised at what I'm using for my paint.

Some you might want to just use your water colors and water down some of the blue in your water colors.

I got some food coloring and the kind I got is cake food coloring for people who do fancy cakes and make the frosting different colors.

I'll show you what it looks like.

I got it at the craft store.

And I think it was a dollar twenty.

Uh oh.

Rolling, my rolling pastels.

Maybe if I put them back away instead of trying to move this over without putting them back in their proper place.

Thought I could save a little time, but I can see it was gonna make a mess over here.

So let me put this over here.

I'm going to show you what the water colors look like.

It comes in a little tub like this and they have all different colors and you can see, I bought the one that says sky blue.

Perfect for a floating rabbit, but you don't use it straight out of here.

It looks like jello inside there.

So I just dip a little bit of my paintbrush and I put it in an old olive jar.

Oh no, it's in my capers jar.

I'm using a big easel brush like this and I'm going to begin painting.

Oh, but first boys and girls, I need to put my clouds.

Because I'll start painting that.

So I'll make some puffy clouds.

Puffy clouds, I can't see it very well.

And I'm not doing an outline for it.

So I don't know if it's gonna be painted close enough and I'll do one back here behind Pepette.

Just going around and around in circles.

I'll try and keep the paint off of that.

Maybe a big one down here.

(pastel scribbling) Oh, it's flattening my brand new white crayon, maybe a little puffy cloud off the edge.

Do you see how hard I'm pressing?

I'm trying not to break my crayon 'cause that's what happens for me.

I start pressing pretty hard and it ends up breaking my crayon.

Now you'll see what happens when I start my watercolor now.

Okay, this is really bright.

So I'm going to get in there.

Wipe my brush, go near the, Look what happens, it's like magic.

I go over my cloud and now you can see the cloud.

I'm going near my rabbit without going over it.

If a little bit gets near my rabbit, it's okay.

You can see the wax and the crayon is making it not stick.

Except for the places I just did not see that I painted.

Getting near that.

Touch the edge.

Ooh, I'll make my brush stand up straight to get in between there.

I'm getting there, and go to the edge, all the way off.

So wherever you're painting, make sure you have newspaper.

Or I have this old easel paper, oh, I forgot, I put a cloud there.

Looks pretty good.

This sky blue color is really looking pretty to me.

Get near the body and pull out.

Put it near the body, oh, I have to stay away from her tail.

Near her tail and pull out.

Near her face.

Near her face.

Little bit here.

And go out.

Oh, there's another cloud there.

How funny, I just did it and I almost forgot where I put all the clouds.

Near there.

I'm gonna tell you about tomorrow and what you need to bring.

Tomorrow, the artist we're going to meet is Matisse.

And if you remember learning about Matisse.

Matisse did all kinds of painted pictures, but then he moved when he started getting sick.

And when his legs didn't work, and he had to stay in bed, he started doing cutouts.

So, tomorrow, we're going to look at a painting of his wife, that he did of his wife.

And the funny thing is, he painted her unusual colors.

I'm almost finished with this and then we'll be able to say goodbye to one another.

Maybe there's even time to sing our goodbye song, but you can see my clouds wherever I colored with the white crayon, it's getting near there.

Let me get between her legs and around her foot.

Almost finished.

I'll put her on the, there's a, behind me on the blue chart.

I have all the art from the other days.

All right, boys and girls.

I'm finished here and let's say goodbye.

All right, let's take a look at my finished product.

Here is Pepette flying through the sky.

Alright, tomorrow you'll need a piece of background paper.

I'm using blue, a pink paper, some paper scraps, your scissors, a glue stick and any coloring tools you might want to add to it because it's going to be a colorful picture.

So let's sing goodbye to one another and get ready to see you tomorrow.

♪ 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.

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