♪ 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 doing a study of snowmen and artists, famous artists we've met in the past and how they might have painted a snowman if they were alive today.

Let's do our hello song.

♪ 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 ♪ Let's do a one to say hi to you.

And I'm saying hello today to Iris and Danielle but her teacher calls her Danny.

Hello and glad you've joined us and are doing art with us each day.

Today we are meeting or revisiting actually an artist we met when we were learning about scarecrows and his name is Grant Wood.

And he was born on a farm in Iowa and his father was a farmer and his mother was a teacher.

And what made him famous?

He made painting rural scenes and countryside scenes famous with a kind of art called regionalism.

That means it's in a region and he keeps doing that same kind.

Let's take a look at him.

He's just an ordinary looking man from Iowa and here he is Grant Wood.

And the painting that we studied already was this one called American Gothic.

Now American Gothic, we came to find out that this was his sister and that was his dentist.

And they used him as a model in front of this farmhouse.

Now that farmhouse has a gothic style window and that's why they call it American Gothic.

And today when we do our snow girl and snowman, we're going to make that window in the background so that we remember it came from Grant Wood.

All right.

Let's say if Grant Wood painted a snowman.

♪ If Grant would paint it a snowman ♪ ♪ How would that snowman look?

♪ ♪ Would it be like his other work ♪ ♪ Let's check out the book ♪ And inside the book, this is the example that Greg Newbold painted and he thought it looked very much like Grant Wood's American Gothic because there he is with the pitchfork.

There he is side-by-side with the woman in front of the house that has the gothic style window.

So we're going to do some cut and paste and we're going to do it on my little table.

So let me put these things aside and pick this up and you get yourself ready with your scissors and your glue stick.

And remember what I taught you on our first day together.

I already have our squares cut out.

So I'm only doing from their waist up just like in this picture.

I'm gonna keep this showing to you for right now and I'll show you.

This will be the snow girl.

This will be the snowman.

This will be their head, head and head.

And here is the gothic window in the background.

So I'm going to make sure that I have these set here.

This is called dry testing and I'm going to put these pieces of snow on top of this house top.

And if you would like to do that, all I did was get a square of this peachy colored paper and I folded it in half diagonally and cut it so it would be a roof line.

So I can put that right there.

I think I'll start with that building so that I can get the rest of mine started.

So here's my glue stick.

Oh, that one's kind of worn out.

I'm gonna get a better one.

Here's my glue stick.

And I'm going to put glue.

I kind of do it off of my paper otherwise it makes like a shiny smoochy part.

I'm gonna put that on the edge of the roof line matching it right on the corner.

And I'll put a little glue stick right here and match that with this little piece of snow and put it on the roof line.

Now it's ready to go.

Now I can turn it.

Oh, it's tried to stick to the paper already.

Turn it over.

And I can see where the color is and I go down and down and across.

And I'll put it in the middle, near the top, so that there's where that gothic style windowed house is.

Now, remember what I taught you about cutting our squares.

I could double these up but I never... My paper seems to slip sometimes and I don't want it to be a big mistake so I'm going to cut the head corners off first.

Let me get this out here so that I can make sure you can see it.

You remember I'm just cutting those off.

I'm not gluing it yet until I cut the body piece off.

I measure it and see okay, that's gonna work out good.

I'm going to cut the corner off making it as round as I can.

Remember what I told you, the snowball doesn't have to be perfect.

I'm just doing my best.

Cutting off the corners.

Now it's ready.

Now here's the part that you think, well, how is she using all the magazine papers she asked us to bring?

So here is my little folder.

I went through a magazine and I put it all in a piece of paper that we used for a scarecrows pants.

When I said to myself, Oh, this would make a good scarf.

Oh, this color would be good for her shirt.

Oh, I like the looks of this, it's like a Valentine.

Oh, I could make that on her dress maybe.

So, I'm gonna turn this back for myself to look at and I'm going to think she has an apron on and she has sleeves down the side.

So what I do is since I want her to have a fancy, excuse me boys and girls.

Had a little cough there.

Think when I had a wiggly throat.

So I'm going to put this on top so that it will be the same size as her body.

And I'm going around 'cause I liked the color of this for her dress.

And then if I make an apron over the top, it will fit over to the part I made on her dress.

And you'll think, well, why did you make that snowman body if you're just going to cover it up with color?

Well, because I want it to be the same shape.

So I'm putting the glue stick around there and I will put her dress on her.

Will it all show?

No, not all.

So I'm gonna put this back in here because I'll use it maybe for something else.

Now, what color do I want to put for her apron?

Oh, this would make a good apron.

It was really someone's slipper.

But how could I do that?

I'm going to put this.

You might not have a shoe as yours.

You might just find some other kind of paper that you found that you like.

But this one will work for me and I'll put that on as her apron.

That looks good.

So I'm going to put glue on the back of it and glue it down the middle of her dress.

That will make that.

Now I can use this for her head.

Boy, all my glue sticks are wearing out.

Should get brand new ones I think boys and girls.

Look, I'm putting her head where her apron meets her outfit.

Now she, oh, but I don't want it to just stick to the paper yet.

Stick it just to her dress.

Now, I'm going to use this other slipper to do her sleeves of her dress.

Just cutting it off.

And we know that the sleeves are really two rectangles.

So I'm just going to go around there and slice those in half and put them next to her body, glue stick.

Next to her body, glue stick, next to her body like that.

Oh, it kind of is going up too much past her shoulder so I can trim it off.

We can look on this side and say trim that little shoulder off.

Well, that looks good.

All right.

I'll put this here.

You know, I won't have time to put their faces on and decorate them, but I wanted to show you how you do this and put clothes on your snowman and snow girl.

I'm going to start on the man now.

Cutting off the corners just like that.

Put it next to her.

Make sure he's about the same size.

Cut off the corners and get this cut like this.

Put that here.

I'm looking.

Oh, he had on ear warmers.

What are they called?

Ear muffs.

I don't think I'll do that, but I know he's gonna like maybe his jacket can be out of my folder.

I like this paper 'cause it looks like denim, like jean material.

I think I'll give him that for his jacket.

Putting it on top.

And if you feel like you want to trace around your snowman's body to make sure it's the same size, go ahead.

I just feel confined snipping off a little bit of the white if I have to.

And I'll put the glue stick on there and put the paper on, and he can stand next to her and get this part for him.

Put the head on.

I am going to put a scarf on him 'cause he needs to make his clothes look a little fancy too.

I found this and I even marked down and said make sure you use this for his scarf.

Look, I put a note scarf.

Take off my clip.

Just like the other times I told you how to make sure that fits, put it up to the neck, tear it.

Go around and go down.

Make it a stripey scarf.

Around and up.

I might even fringe it.

Snip, snip, snippety, snip.

And even if you go a little sideways to cut off some of the fringe that makes it even look more like fabric.

I think I better curve this to go by his head.

Going to put this on the glue stick 'cause my glue stick is getting down to where there's practically none and I have to push on it.

Put it on there.

Oh, I do like how that looks.

Okay, now the two snowman are ready to be added to my paper and I can add the pieces of colored paper to their faces.

I know I wanna get their carrot nose on there for sure so we can see what a fit.

Oh look, it's the one from the last one.

I'm gonna make them be since they're related, I'm going to put them together and cut out two carrots at the same time remembering that it could be like a little triangle.

Now, I will finish these at my house and bring them for you to see so that you know that it's always good to finish your work even if you think, Oh, do I like the way this looks?

And you say, "Well, maybe I just need to work on it a little longer to make sure that it's what I like.

Now here's my carrot nose for this guy and this one.

Oh, I really like how they're looking boys and girls.

All right.

Let me tell you about tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we're going to meet Roy Lichtenstein and he did things with dots.

So what we're going to do is I want you to bring in skinny pins, an eraser, white paper, a black pen because we're going to be polka dotting behind certain parts of it.

You'll see.

He's really like a guy who does things like a cartoon.

And you'll be surprised that you'll say, "Oh, how did you get all of those dots?"

And I'm going to put my dots side by side by tying together a few pens.

But you can just use one at a time but I'm gonna do it in a speedy way.

All right.

♪ Goodbye.

See you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Good bye.

See you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you.

♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to me ♪ ♪ Goodbye.

See you next time everyone ♪ Bye boys and girls.

See you tomorrow.

(upbeat music) ♪ 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)