(upbeat music) - Hello, early learners.

And welcome back to the art room.

Normally I do a master's work of art as our inspiration, but all week long we're going to talk about a book called "Over in the Meadow".

Let's start out by singing "When Cows Get Up in the Morning" as our greeting song.

Now, a rooster is really nature's alarm clock, and when he gets up on the fence and starts to crow, he says R-R-R-R-R which are Rs in a row.

And here he is.

So I'm going to say, when cows get up in the morning, they always say good day.

When cows get up in the morning, they always say good day.

And then I'll say R-R-R-R-R, this is what they say.

And here is the song.

And we're going to do this song with different animals each day this week.

So you'll learn the tune or remember the tune from a long time ago.

And it goes like this.

♪ When roosters get up in the morning, ♪ ♪ they always say good day.

♪ ♪ When roosters get up in the morning, ♪ ♪ they always say good day.

♪ ♪ R-R-R-R-R ♪ ♪ This is what they say ♪ ♪ R-R-R-R-R ♪ ♪ This is what they say.

♪ Get ready, because tomorrow we will sing about the female version of that family of animals.

It will be the hen, but we'll use the rooster today.

I'll set him aside over here.

Now, about our book.

It's called "Over in the Meadow" and I have five versions of that songbook in which each author chooses which animals they will do, and they've pick 10 different animals.

And in this book, "Over in the Meadow", it's a counting song.

And the song started out being a poem written by Olive A Wadsworth.

Now Olive A Wadsworth was a woman in the 1800s, and in those days women weren't writers.

It was not usual for women to be writers.

So she picked this name to be her penname.

Her real name was Katherine Floyd Dana, and she did pick this name, and as a little joke, hid in O A W, which meant Only A Woman.

So she tricked people into thinking she was a man and wrote the poem.

And another woman in the Ozarks, which is where they were living in the mountains, she wrote the tune for it.

But the nice thing about it is we can use any tune we want to sing this song.

As a matter of fact, today I think I'll sing it to "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" maybe.

Now, let me get the book and show you "Over in the Meadow".

It looks like this.

And we also have it on the chart.

And here is our author.

Her name is Jane Cabrera, and Jane Cabrera looks like this.

She is an author of children's books.

When she was 16, she had heard there were schools for artists and she wanted to become an artist.

And she got herself into art school and she has written and illustrated over 59 books.

And she lives in a place in the UK on the edge of a beautiful meadow.

And which is a perfect place for the woman who wrote and illustrate... well, she actually illustrated this book and she put the words together.

Now, we're going to use the tune, "Twinkle Twinkle", sort of.

I stretch it out a little bit, boys and girls.

And what I want you to do is as we sing this song, look how she painted the animals in this story.

She uses a lot of short brush strokes just like Pablo Picasso and Van Gogh did.

And I am going to do this rabbit.

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to paint the rabbit with tempera paints and then do the short brush strokes for the grassy meadow, because meadows are often open areas of grass where creatures live, and we're going to sing this song and see how to count using this book.

So if we start out saying one, then we'll go to the number two, and then go on to number three.

And here is our book "Over in the Meadow".

It is written and illustrated by Jane Cabrera.

Now let's take a look at this art.

I told you she painted little short brush strokes, let it dry a little bit, and then she put little tiny brush strokes to add the detail.

If you choose the turtle to be the animal that you paint, then you might think about how she did that.

Light green, dark green, yellow, and white all mixed in.

And then she even put shadows using white rather than dark.

But here is the song.

♪ Over in the meadow in the sand in the sun ♪ ♪ lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one.

♪ ♪ "Dig" said the mother.

"I dig" said the one.

♪ ♪ So they dug all day in the sand in the sun.

♪ So not only is this a book that is used in springtime, it's always used as a Mother's Day book for my class because every single page has a mother and its baby.

And here she only has one baby.

When we turn the page, how many babies do you think will be there?

If you guessed two, you are right.

And here's our number two.

And here are the two babies.

And here is the mother fish.

And here's the song.

♪ Over in the meadow where the stream runs blue ♪ ♪ lived an old mother fish and her little fishes two.

♪ ♪ "Swim," said the mother.

"We swim," said the two.

♪ ♪ So they swam all day where the stream runs blue.

♪ Two, blue.

They both say -oo.

So not only is this a counting book, it is also a rhyme book.

What do you think will rhyme with the number three?

Three, bee, three, tree, three, sea.

Let's find out.

It's not a bee.

It's an owl.

And here is our number three and an owl lives in a tree.

I bet that's the rhyme.

Let's find out.

Oh, and if you choose the owl, you'll paint the background maybe orange and then put the feathers on with yellow, white, and dark orange.

Or the babies are all different colors, but they have the big round eyes with like flower petals all around.

Is that the one you will choose to paint?

I'm painting the rabbit, but maybe you'll choose something else.

And here's our song.

♪ Over in the meadow in a hole in a tree ♪ ♪ lived an old mother owl and her little owls three.

♪ ♪ "Tu-Whoo," said the mother.

"Tu-whoo," said the three.

♪ ♪ So they tu-whooed all day in a hole in a tree.

♪ Three, tree.

They both say -ee.

The next number is number four.

What rhymes with four?

Door, shore, core?

What will it be?

It's a rat.

Here's the old mother rat.

She's the same color as the rabbit on the cover.

She has pink ears.

Is that what you'll do?

And the babies are down here.

One, two, three, four, sure enough.

♪ Over in the meadow by the old barn door ♪ ♪ lived an old mother rat and her little ratties four.

♪ ♪ "Gnaw," said the mother.

"We gnaw," said the four.

♪ ♪ So they gnawed all day by the old barn door.

♪ The word gnaw means to chew on.

So they're chewing on something.

Four, door.

They both say -or.

Here's number five.

Where do bees live?

In a hive.

Here's the mother.

One, two, three, four, five.

♪ Over in the meadow in a snug bee hive ♪ ♪ lived an old mother bee and her little bees five.

♪ ♪ "Buzz," said the mother.

"We buzz," said the five.

♪ ♪ So they buzzed all day in a snug bee hive.

♪ Now, if you make the be and want to paint its head, thorax, and abdomen, you'll put on the antenna and the bee's wings.

Maybe you'll make this shape and paint it.

It's because it is the honeycomb, the place in the hive where they deposit their honey.

Now the number six.

Six, what rhymes with six?

Could be sticks, could be fix, could be bricks.

What would be in the meadow?

Let's find out.

Oh, it's a mother duck.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Yep.

♪ Over in the meadow in a nest made of sticks ♪ ♪ lived an old mother duck and her little ducks six.

♪ ♪ "Quack," said the mother.

"We quack," said the six.

♪ ♪ So they quacked all day in an nest made of sticks.

♪ Six, sticks.

They both say -ix.

Seven.

Oh, I was trying to think of what rhymes with seven.

Heaven.

Mm, that's the only rhyme I can think of, or 11, seven 11.

Let's find out.

♪ Over in the meadow in a green grass heaven ♪ ♪ lived an old mother frog and her little frogs seven.

♪ ♪ "Jump," said the mother.

"We jump," said the seven.

♪ ♪ So they jumped all day in a green grass heaven.

♪ So they must call it heaven cause it's a great place for the frogs to be.

Now number eight.

Eight late, eight gate, eight skate, hm.

It is a gate.

You can see it's made right here.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

♪ Over in the meadow by the old mossy gate ♪ ♪ lived an old mother lizard and her little lizards eight.

♪ ♪ "Bask," said the mother.

"We bask," said the eight.

♪ ♪ So they basked all day by the old mossy gate.

♪ Eight, gate.

They both say -ate.

Now, boys and girls, bask means to just lie out in the sun and let the sun shine on you.

And it's kind of just to get yourself toasty because the lizards turn to the same temperature that is around them.

Nine, spine, line, dine.

Let's find out.

Oh, it's mother worms.

And what kind of tree?

It's called a pine and here's a pine cone.

And here's our number nine, top down, and down.

♪ Over in the meadow by the old Scotch pine ♪ ♪ lived an old mother worm and her little worms nine.

♪ ♪ "Wiggle," said the mother.

"We wiggle," said the nine.

♪ ♪ So they wiggled all day by the old Scotch pine.

♪ Last one.

10, men, hen, wren.

Where does a fox or a rabbit live?

In a den?

Let's see.

Here's the one I want to paint today.

♪ Over in the meadow in a cozy, wee den ♪ ♪ lived an old mother rabbit and her little rabbits 10.

♪ ♪ "Twitch," said the mother.

"We twitch," said the 10.

♪ ♪ So they twitched all day in a cozy, wee den.

♪ And twitch is, you can see little lines around their noses and they're making their nose wiggle.

We do remember those lines from our friend, Keith Haring, when we made art and made a movement, we put these little lines around the movement to show their noses are twitching and wiggling.

All right, boys and girls, let's close up the book and get ready for art.

If you have paints, that's what I'm using today.

But if you only have crayons, crayons will be fine.

But we're going to choose one of the animals.

It can be in the book or just in your own memory of what you want to paint.

Let me set this down and get up the table.

And I'm using a piece of white paper because I want to paint the background.

Remember how she painted that background and had all those small strokes around it.

So you can't really see my paper because I'm putting it on white.

But remember how I like to have my palette.

I have all my paints.

I put 12 paints in here and I put them in rainbow order.

Red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, magenta.

I have brown, white, peach, and black.

You can use any kind of coloring tool that you want.

When I tell you that we're going to do some kind of art.

You don't have to use the materials I use.

You just decide what you think is good.

Now, in my bucket you'll notice I do not have any gray and I want to make my rabbit gray.

So I'm going to stand my paper up, and before I begin painting, I'm going to kind of trace out what my rabbit's going to look like.

Now for me, I know the rabbit in this book had an egg-shaped head and I want to put two ears on it, just like in real life.

Not like in Picasso life, where he tries to put things with many different numbers of things.

I'm going to put the front paw of the rabbit.

It looks kind of like a human hand, but that's okay.

I'm going to go under my egg-shaped neck and put a hand up like he has in his book.

So I'm going to put that down and then just put this down here.

All right, and in her art, she outlines everything in black at the end.

So I'm going to start out by mixing.

Now, whenever you're making a tint, which is a lighter shade of a color, you put the white first.

When you want to make a tint, you start with the white first and then you add the color that you want to make.

Like, if I wanted to make pink, I would dip in and get a little red and make it pink.

But I'm going to dip in to make gray.

I'm gonna put a little bit of black in there and I'm mixing it around and I'm getting a pretty dark gray.

Pretty nice.

And I can go in later and put in the shades of the color by mixing more color on top.

So I'm gonna start out with the ears.

And notice what I'm doing.

I can paint it upside down because I have already pencil drawn it a little bit.

So I'm gonna turn this this way so you can see a little bit better and I'm going to get in here.

And I can mix right on the paper.

It doesn't have to be in my palette.

So I'm going around the outside and all my paint isn't mixed perfectly.

I'm letting it have some of the variations of gray by adding a little more black and a little more white.

I'm going to dip in and put a little more white up here, dip in and put a little black over here in case I wanted it a little different.

So, mostly wherever it meets another body part, I make it a little darker.

And notice how I'm putting in just little short strokes, short stroke.

I'm going to end up putting a pink nose on there.

Look how I'm doing my short strokes.

Just short stroke, leaving the dark up at the top and making it light here.

In a minute.

I will put some blue sky behind this mother rabbit, and then I might put some green grass just like in the meadow.

Do you notice I'm not painting over, over, over.

Let me show you how it looks so far.

You can see my painting where the rabbit's ears are that way.

And it's body is here coming in next.

But I have its head with little short strokes.

Now I'm going to go down on the body part, and I'm putting wherever the head met the other body part, I made it a little darker right here with my little short strokes.

And I can put some lighter colors.

I'm gonna go on to the paw.

I've never counted a rabbit's toes.

So I'm just gonna put however many I want.

Is someone making an owl at home?

Or at school?

I know a lot of you watch the videos while you're at school because your teachers send me their artwork and I love getting that.

If you ever want to send artwork, you can either send it to the studio or you can try and find my Facebook page.

A lot of your teachers joined my Facebook page and they send me the art there.

So just let me know what you want to do, because I would love to have your art each time you make something, cause it pleases me that you've joined us.

And the people at the studio like to see your work too.

So if you send it here, they can look at it too.

Now I have his body coming, or I should say her body, cause it is a girl rabbit cause it's the mother.

Let me keep painting.

Remember I'm telling you over and over again I'm not painting solidly, like making everything fit together in one smooth color.

Because partly because it's the same way that Jane Cabrera did hers.

But the other thing is, is what is covering the rabbit's body?

Is it a skin or is it a fur?

Yeah, rabbits have fur.

So you want it to look kind of furry.

So you do little brush strokes like this.

Now I'm gonna get inside where the other arm or leg.

I guess they call a rabbit's... every single one of them is a leg.

They don't say the rabbit's arm.

They say the rabbit's legs even if it's a front leg or a back leg.

Now I have to remember where that pencil mark is so I can make sure to get in there.

I'm gonna go around it a little bit so I remember where it is with a little darker color.

Now I'm gonna do the bottom part of the body with the short brush strokes.

You know, in a second I'm going to outline it with black, with a skinny brush.

So if you have a skinny brush and want to go get it, remember you can always pause your video and come back to where we were.

And if not, you can start it over again.

It's always there, either on the PBS website or you can go to YouTube and find it there.

And your teacher, I send them an email every Monday that I'm on television and tell them, be sure to watch it on here, this is the time.

Now I'm gonna get a different brush, boys and girls, cause I'm going to paint a little pink inside the ear.

And remember, to make a tint you start with white.

If you're making a shade, you start with the color and add black.

But to make this I'm just gonna put the tiniest bit so that it makes a really, really pale pink, cause I think the little nose is kind of cute as a pink nose.

I'm gonna put a little pink there and a little pink in the ear.

There we go.

It mixed in with a little bit of the gray, but that's fine with me.

Now I'm gonna put this brush in the water and get one of my skinny brushes and a piece of paper towel.

I think I tell you all oftentimes about using your paint brush and having to make sure you wipe it off on a paper towel if it's been in the water.

If you use your brush straight outta the water, it will be so watery that it will make the paint be see through.

I'm dipping into the black and I'm going to go around the outside just like Jane Carrera did.

Carrera?

No, it's Cabrera with a B in there.

Going around the ears a little bit.

I have to be careful, boys and girls, because I'm sitting in one of the studio's chairs that have fabric on it.

So remember if you are painting, you need to find out from your family where it is okay for you to paint.

Like some people say, make sure you paint in the kitchen, or they say, do the drawing now and you can paint on the patio later or they'll put newspaper under your place.

So just make sure you're checking with your family where you can do your work.

I'm putting my rabbit's black little eye there and I'm going to make its nose and its mouth go here, go around that little pink nose.

Let me show you what it looks like so far.

Can you see where it's kind of furry where I did the short strokes?

I hope you did too.

Cause I think you'll like it better if it's, if not, you can come back and try it again.

I'm gonna go around this paw so that you can see where I put it's second arm, or leg we decided, didn't we.

And rabbits do have whiskers, but I'm so afraid to put black paint on its face right now cause the paint is not dry enough to do that.

Now, as I go around here, it kind of cleans up my furry edges.

If you like it furry, great.

If you like it smooth, terrific.

You know how to fix it.

You can just do, go back in and add some more furry places if you don't like it outlined like our artist and author did.

I'm almost all the way around, aren't I, the front part.

I'm trying to be careful but still go fast enough so you can see how I'm finishing it.

Going now, it's going to just to be a straight line.

I don't have to be so careful.

Are you enjoying yours?

I wonder which animal you chose.

As we were reading the book I tried to remind you to look for which one appealed or made you happiest and you think, oh, that's the one I wanna do.

A bee is probably easiest, but we're gonna do two bees this week later.

Tomorrow we're gonna do a firefly.

See if you can talk with your family about what you know about fireflies.

Now I'm gonna start on my background.

Oh, I really like this rabbit.

It kind of reminds me of Papette from our last time we met together.

All right, I'm going to put some blue sky, and you know how I feel about colors that are straight from the bucket.

I like to mix it up and I'm going to do what she did, which was short strokes.

So I'm going to paint, paint, paint, short strokes all up here near the top where the rabbit has its head.

And then what color do you think will I put for the meadow?

Yeah, green for green grass.

You could add flowers if you'd like.

If you think that this would look great with some flower petals you could do that.

Just decide what you think looks the best for yours.

And you know how I tell you when we're doing coloring things to go only one way?

Not on this project.

You can go this way and that way and that way and this way, because this art is a little different.

Now, some people think that when you do the sky, you just do it up in the very tippy top.

But you know, the sky goes all the way down to the ground.

So I'm doing my short strokes all the way down to where the ground is.

I'm trying not to get too close to my little pink nose.

I may have to come in later after this is dried and add a little bit more because I don't wanna get too close to my black paint and I don't wanna get too close to the nose and face.

I notice the time is kind of coming to the end, boys and girls, and I wanna remind you what we're going to use tomorrow in our art.

Tomorrow, oh, the artist that we're going to be looking at tomorrow is Ezra Jack Keats.

Now Ezra Jack Keats is an author and artist.

So he not only did the artwork, but he's written the story.

And what I want you to bring if you'd like to join me, I'm going to be doing the firefly, so if you'll bring your paints again and I'm using...

Remember when we were doing Klimt and we did gold paint, I'm bringing my gold paint to make the firefly's tail.

And the firefly's tail will be all golden and shiny because the fireflies attract friends and sweethearts that way.

Boys and girls, I'm glad you joined me today for "Over in the Meadow" where we painted with tempera paint and made a rabbit in the meadow.

I just think this looks so good.

I'm gonna put a little bit of green down here.

And join me tomorrow when we meet Ezra Jack Keats and we'll do a resist.

I'm going to use some black paint too.

So I'll see you tomorrow.

Thanks for joining me.

Bye bye, boys and girls.

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