♪ 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 ♪ (lively playful music) - Hello, early learners.

Welcome back to the art room where we're studying, "Snowman" and snowman that might've been created by a famous artist.

And today we're talking about Roy Lichtenstein.

Some of my friends said, "I don't know that artist" but I wanna show you, you're gonna think, "Oh, I've seen art like that."

Let's start out with our hello song.

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 ♪ And I have two friends to wind up this week by saying hello to Stephanie and Madeline.

So glad you've joined us for the art lessons.

And these are the teachers of the classroom and Ms. Damien's classroom and Hamilton.

All righty, we're doing our last artists today and his artwork is up here.

This is Roy Lichtenstein, and he was known for his pop art which we know means popular art.

And this is the one that we're looking at today.

It's called, "Girl with Hair Ribbon" and here she is and her hair ribbon is up here.

Now, how did he get those colors to look like that?

He usually only uses yellow, blue, red, and black.

And it's all using dots.

Kind of like George Seurat and pointillism, same idea.

They blend together, and kind of look like the color that they're using.

But, they're all tiny dots.

Now, the person I wanted to write down and tell you about, the person who designed that kind of printing is called Benjamin Henry Day.

And so they call them Ben dots and he used Ben dots to color in his cartoon-like or comic book-like art.

And that's what Roy Lichtenstein was really famous for.

He's an artist from America, who did his Ben-Day dots on his artwork and how Greg Newbold from the book, "If Picasso painted a snowman" saw him doing the art was to have a word come out of the character's mouth like in a comic book.

So let's sing the song about, "If Lichtenstein painted a snowman."

Ready?

♪ If Lichtenstein ♪ look at that name, his special letter is L but it's a great big, long name.

♪ If Lichtenstein painted a snowman ♪ ♪ How would that snowman look ♪ ♪ Would he be like his other work ♪ ♪ Let's check out the book.

♪ And Greg Newbold did this.

He made the snowman with a top hat, with a red band, he made his angry face cause he's saying, Blam!

like in a comic book might, "take that!"

the snowman said I'm doing mine to say something loving like a Valentine picture, because this is about the time that Valentine's day is happening.

And we wanna make sure we talk about lovely things.

In addition to these, like, "He's saving the world with his glam" to somebody we don't know who is snowman hand is touching to get it out of here.

And you see they're using those action lines just the way that our artist Keith Haring did.

Remember how we did sign that shows there's movement and he's moving his hand, and he'sú moving across and you just use lines like that.

So if I want to make this outline that says blam, and put in their love, maybe that's how I'll do my snowman.

Maybe you won't use a word at all.

You'll get to decide everything's going to be drawn today.

And then the Ben-Day dots are going to be put in certain places we want to make into a shadow.

So let me set this down and pick up my tabletop, move my pointer stick over here.

I also brought... here I'll show you when I put this on my lap you'll see the materials I'm using.

I brought two pieces of paper in case I made a mistake cause I tried this at my house and I wasn't very good at it but I'm going to try it again today.

I'm gonna keep this paper over here.

So I want you to see this, I brought my permanent pen to draw the outline of my snowman and then a darker pen so that I can fill in his hat.

Because if you have pens that you're using, you don't want to use your pens all up by coloring in a solid black area.

You want to remember to use a bigger pen or a pen that doesn't cost as much money as some of the others do.

So I'm going to draw him, and then behind him, I will put dots and they made the dots lighter and lighter if they want it to be light, and they put them bigger and darker, if they wanted them to show up more.

So let me turn this around to myself and I'm going to draw my snowman head and leave room for his top hat.

So let's draw our head, a nice size in order for me to do the hat, I'm going to draw across and go up and touch his head go up and touch his head standing line standing line and a curve line that crosses over.

I want to make sure I have a place for the band.

So I go across like that and I want to make sure I put his eyebrows.

Now, if you want mean eyebrows, you make the eyebrows point down like this down eyebrows.

I'm making friendly eyebrows on mine and just making them stay up.

And we know his eyes are just a dot.

That way I can.

Now, I'll show this to you cause I have it outlined and I will start out by using my red colored pencil.

It's my watercolor pencil.

And if you want to do some painting, you can use your watercolor pencils or you can use colored pencils and then you can use the water afterwards.

But I'm going to do the outline for his nose as well.

Let me turn it back to myself so I don't make it too big.

And remember how it is curve around that carrot and draw out to the edge.

I'm going to show you what I meant about doing the Ben dots.

I'm going to Ben dot, touch, pick-up touch, pick-up you just do it like you're poking and doing them side by side.

If you went all over the place doing your dots, it won't look as good.

But if you do that, it will be okay.

But I think it looks better if you take your time and go close to the edge and I do it in a row, and I just keep going down and if I want it to be darker, I make the dots closer together.

For instance, we like things to be shadowed so on the edge, I'm going over it again, to make it look like it's shadowy because I put the dots closer together.

And I might even put my red one and do that with it.

I tied these all together cause I wanted you to see that I could do a bunch of dots at the same time and you just go all three of them down at the same time.

But I think that you won't have these pens like that so that's really not fair of me.

So I'm not going to do that.

I'll just use it as a single and I'm mixing the red with the orange and making it go in, all ready.

Put the lid on that one, set it aside.

Now watch, when I use my watercolor paint brushes, I can just go in there and mix that and it blends it in.

I have to be careful if I put water on it before I'm ready because then that paint all gets on everything else.

Now I talked to you about using a pen that is fatter so I can fill this in.

And look how it covers over you don't see where I drew the Snowman's head up here.

I can just fill that in.

And I got next to it.

If you don't have one of these dark pens, just use your black crayon and just color as hard as you can on there.

And I go up here and color my top hat around like this and notice that I'm doing it in a row just like everything else.

If you want it to be neat, you go row by row.

If you want it to be scribble scrabble, then scribble Scrabble it.

But I think it looks better this way.

Now I'm going to use this to do my smaller dots for his mouth in a second, I'm going to turn it to you.

If you want him to have a mean look, you'd make the mouth a different direction.

All right.

Now, I'm going to do this, I'm going to use my outline pen again and put his scarf on before I do his body.

So I'm just making it go to the side and I'm going to make the fringe on it, like we've shown on other ones.

Since I'm going to be doing a Stripe, I'm going to start with my Ben dots, Ben dot, Ben dot, Ben dot, with my red.

And I'm just doing it in rows to make the stripes.

I'll skip a spot and go Ben dot, Ben dot, Ben dot.

If it feels like it's taking a long time and you think this isn't fun anymore, set it aside, come back to it later.

Cause it doesn't have to be finished in one sitting you know that boys and girls.

I talk about that all the time.

Cause sometimes you think, "Oh, this is such a long process" and your hands get tired.

Let me show you, cause my fingers are getting a little tired right now.

I'm gonna show you what I do when I'm doing my artwork and it's fine artwork.

I put the lid back on and I do this with my fingers and I rub them together and I put my hands like this, and push them open and close, open and close, and it gets them not so tired anymore.

And I'm not tired of doing it yet, my fingers felt a little tired of holding the pen for a long time.

And you know this muscle right here, I have a big muscle on my hand because I'm older, your muscles, haven't grown up like mine.

And though your hands do get tired, that's why we say, play with Play-Doh, do get some squishy balls cause it makes this muscle big.

Compare your muscle that's at the end of your thumb with your parents' muscle or your grownups muscle in your house.

And let them show you how much bigger theirs is.

And then you'll say, "Oh, no wonder you can't write for as long as I can."

It's because your muscle isn't developed yet.

So never fear your muscle would get bigger every time you do something busy with your hands.

Now I'm going to do his body, I think I will put his middle body, and I'm not gonna go through my scarf and my bottom body.

And it's gonna go just to the edge like this.

Now, the part that's going to take me a long time, is to do all the blue dots for the background like they did.

And this is when I thought this would be fun to have all these pens and be able to push them down and do all of my dots at the same time.

But I can see that I've pushed these around and they might not do it, but I'll try it.

Oh yeah, it does.

(vocalizing) Oh my Ben dots, all my Ben dots and I can put it all in the background.

Boys and girls, I hope that you enjoyed your time with us as we studied how artists might have created a snowman and you had a good time doing this.

I would really like for you to show me your art.

Would you?

Would you write to me here at the studio and send a photograph of what you've done and I can write back to you and send you a book that maybe that the studio bought for children who write to us and send your home address.

Next week, I'm going to be talking about rain.

And we're gonna do all kinds of paintings and artwork using rain as our topic.

And I'm going to show you some artists that you've met before, and maybe some artists that we haven't met.

Let's sing goodbye to each other.

Ready?

♪ Goodbye see you next time, everyone.

♪ ♪ Goodbye see you next time, everyone.

♪ ♪ Goodbye to you.

♪ ♪ Goodbye to you.

♪ ♪ Goodbye to me.

♪ See you next time, boys and girls.

(bright guitar 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 ♪ (bright guitar music)