♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Hello, early learners.

Welcome back to the art room where we are continuing our study of snowmen and how artists might have painted them if they were alive today.

Let's start out with our hello song and get right into the art.

♪ 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 ♪ All righty, my two people today, Costanza, hello and Allen.

Welcome to the art room.

Thanks for joining us and for doing your art with us.

We sure appreciate you watching.

Yesterday, we were looking at another artist but today we're talking about George Seurat.

Now, we've seen a print of his before.

He's known for pointillism where every little dot is side by side with another one, and from far away they blend together and make colors.

So if I had a yellow, yellow, yellow, and a blue, blue, blue it would blend together and make the color green.

That's right, and when he put yellow, yellow, yellow next to red, red, red, it mixes together and in your eyes from far away it looks orange.

So today with George Seurat, he was a very private person and he dressed in fancy clothing.

Let's look at the picture of him.

Here he is with his fine suit, a nice white shirt and a tie.

And they called him the notary because he would walk around town as if he were a very, very important businessman.

And in his art he was extremely private and he would show his art and the print that we really know from TK, is "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

And it was all the fancy people on one side of the river.

And they were standing there with their fine clothes and some were lying back and some were standing and looking around.

But today, we're looking at the painting he did on the other side of the river.

They were not the rich people.

They were the everyday people and we can see his print up here next to the picture of him.

And there they are instead of just standing and looking at the river, they're getting into the water and they're lying and looking comfortable and being with their friends and calling across the water to others.

Now, Seurat was known for his pointillism and that's how we're going to make our snowman today.

You can see this one that was just done with an outline.

They did a dot and moved up and just did the outline of the snowman.

If that's all you feel like doing that is fine.

I'm going to sort of fill in mine and I'll show you mine when I pick my board up to my lap.

But let's say, if Seurat painted a snowman.

♪ If Seurat painted a snowman ♪ ♪ How would that snowman look ♪ ♪ Would he be like his other work ♪ ♪ Let's just take a look ♪ So let's take a look at how we're going to create this art.

Let me set down my clipboard and my pointer stick and pick up my table that I fashioned as my art table.

Let me show you this one.

I'm going to keep it next to me as an inspiration.

And you can see they started out with just a plain piece of kind of creamy colored paper.

And I can mix in my dots of yellow and some white and blue and you can see where they mixed it so it would look like a shadow.

Here they did dark blue around the scarf and they didn't have the scarf falling off to the side and blowing in the wind.

They did it a different way.

So I'm going to turn this back around to me so I can look at it and you can follow the directions.

I have made paint in an old pie pan with a paper towel at the bottom.

There's some white here and some blue.

I made a littler one just in the lid of some kind of food container and it will make my stick arms out to the side.

I have some red I'd like to use for my scarf, and some orange for my carrot nose and the rest of it we will just use...

This was the paint we used last week that I put in an egg carton in case I need any of these colors.

I can see I probably will use the black.

And remember the lid of the egg carton I used that to mix my paints.

So let's take a look.

And I need a pencil that has not been used.

The eraser is just flat, flat, flat so I can start my printing.

I'm going to start with the blue so I can outline my snowman's body.

I'm starting at the bottom and print, print.

Press and up, press and up, press and up, press and up.

And the closer you get to the dot before, the more it looks like a solid line.

Is that what you want?

Then do it.

If you want it be more of a Polka dot off to the side, do that.

You can always go back and print in between but I wanna kind of get an idea of how big I'm going to make his bottom part of his body, the body part, not his torso.

This is kind of where his abdomen would be.

And if I have too much room over here on this side of the paper, I'm not worried about that because I could put in some background if I would like.

I'm going to fill this in again.

Do you notice I'm not turning my pencil to print.

♪ I'm setting down and picking up ♪ ♪ I'm setting down and picking up ♪ I'm going to make my next one a little bit smaller because that is going to be his middle body.

I know some friends worry when I don't get my artwork done that they won't get to see it finished.

But you notice each week I bring it back and show you the finished one.

And I hope that you finish yours.

I like for you to send me pictures of your art.

And later on, I'll remind you again because if you do and send your address to the studio, they'll send you a little activity book in the mail and before we go I'll ask them to put the address up so that if you want to write to us, you'll be able to do that.

Now, I have his abdomen, his torso and now I'm going to put his head here.

And you see I'm putting the dots kind of far away so I can fill an afterward.

Just so I can see how big I want his head to be.

I'm not rushing because I think I have enough time to fill in quite a bit of this but you know how I feel about hurrying my art.

It ends up being kind of messy if I do that.

So I'm just going to take my time and do this.

And if I don't finish right now, I will finish later.

If you don't have a pencil that has a brand new eraser, I've seen people do this with a Q-Tip but they hold too much paint for me, and I don't think I have very much fun with it that way.

I'm gonna mix the same with a little of the white.

I'm mixing up my blue paint with the white and I'm going to go inside that a little bit.

So it'll be some of it will be pure white.

Some of it will be lighter white with a little blue mixed in.

Do you have to do this way?

No, If you decide that you want to make your snowman all white, do that.

I just thought this might be interesting.

Now what's the problem is, is when I want to do this with a different color.

I'll have to use a paper towel or some kind of tissue to wipe it off because I am going to show you how I'm going to put my red scarf and on the one that I'm looking at they use different kinds of red and I can see that if I go too much on my blue right now when it's still wet, it's going to make it mix too much.

So I'm just going to do the outline for mine.

And I'm going to go down because the scarf is going to hang down, and I'll fill it in when things are dryer.

But I just wanna do the outline of my scarf.

I get this one up here.

Maybe a little bit next to his neck up here.

There, that's a pretty good start.

I'm gonna put some more in here.

And if I want to make it a little bit different color, I'll just go over here and pick up some blue and make it into like a purply magenta.

And I can do that next to this because your colors can definitely be mixed if you'd like.

Remember what I'm telling you.

I'm saying this over and over to you to let you know we are being inspired by these artists.

We're not having to do it just like theirs.

We want to say, "Oh., they did some dot painting.

That pointillism I'm gonna give it a try."

Does it have to be the same color?

No, boys and girls, remember that.

Unless your teacher tells you you have to make it a certain color, then you just make it how you would like.

There, I think I liked that pretty much.

I'm going to give him his carrot nose.

So what do I need to do?

Wipe off that pencil.

I guess if some people had a lot of brand new pencils, they could use a different pencil for every color but that's not what I have.

I have one pencil and I'm just going to try and use it.

Now I'm going to put my carrot nose in here.

And since this pencil eraser is kind of thick, I have to go close.

I might overlap a little because as I go down to make it a triangle I want to make sure that I've got that.

Now, I want to make the black eyes.

So I'm going to wipe off some of this.

I have to be careful too boys and girls because I'm sitting in a chair that is upholstered, that means there's fabric on it.

And I don't want to get any paint on this chair because lots of my friends who teach here use the same chair.

And if they sat on here and I left paint, they wouldn't like it very much that I got their clothing painted and I want to remain friends with all my people I work with.

So there are my two black eyes and I'm going to do tiny ones.

Tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny as I can.

I'm not pressing down the whole way on that, but I like it.

I like it very much.

I think I'll put some buttons down the front of him too.

A button for you and a button for you.

I like it.

All right, I'm gonna put some of his arms lines on that I'll need to fill in afterwards.

I'm wiping my tissue and getting that paint off the end of that.

And here's my container of brown.

Touch, get it off the big glob of paint and go over here to drip it off a little.

I'm gonna have him wave like I did that Keith Herring.

Remember how we did that with Keith Herring?

We had him wave and did the action lines off to the side.

I kind of liked that.

I'm gonna put another one for another branch and put his other hand out here and I'll get this in here with the one out to this side.

Boys and girls I'm gonna look at my list of things for you to bring tomorrow so that I can finish painting while I'm still working on this and liking it.

Tomorrow, we're going to be working with Grant Wood.

He was the one who had the farmer with the Pitchfork and we're going to do some cut and paste pretty much the same that we did with our Matisse where we cut and paste things.

So bring your glue sticks and scissors and colored paper and a big bright background paper for you to do some cut and paste with me.

You might think it looks a lot like the one we've already done, but it'll be a good idea for us to try something different.

All right, boys and girls, let's say goodbye to one another.

♪ 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 ♪ Now, when we do the cut and paste, remember you need scissors, glue stick, and I'm bringing things from a magazine to put clothes on my snowman using different colored papers from my magazines.

I will see you tomorrow.

Boys and girls thanks for joining me today and I will be glad to see you tomorrow, bye-bye.

(soft guitar playing) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (soft guitar playing)