♪ 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 ♪ (cheerful music) - Hello, early learners.

Welcome to the art room for our last day of our study of rain.

Let's do our hello song and then talk a little bit about what we're going to do today.

♪ 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 ♪ Boys and girls, I would like to say hello to a few people in Mrs. Tapujian's class at Muir Elementary.

I have Zaheer, Gabriel and Salwa.

And I also want to shout out to someone who sent me a letter named Mr. Donald.

We thank you for your letters and for your attention to art and enjoying art everyone.

And thank you, Mrs. Tapujian, for doing art with your children each day and for inviting me to your class to see the art and be able to talk to each of the children as they held their art up to their screen.

It was so much fun.

Alrighty, so we've been doing the ABCs of rain, and the ABCs of rain, we did the boots, we did umbrella, we did the puddle, we did... What was our other one?

Thunder.

And today we're going to do rain on the plain.

Now some people think plain, because they hear the word plain, it's an airplane, but another meaning for plain and a different spelling is like pastures and fields, and it's usually pretty flat.

And I put this up here to remind us the plain is out in the country, and then we'll put some raindrops raining on the plain and you can do your rhyme of rain on the plain.

Today's art, what we're looking at, no one I showed this to of all of my friends recognized which artist did this work because it's a Japanese painting, and it's from our Vincent van Gogh.

He and his brother Theo loved Japanese art, and so he got one of the artworks and he wanted it to look like that.

So not only are we inspired by great artists, great artists are inspired by other artists.

So he painted this bridge in the rain and there's someone paddling out on the water.

There are people crossing the bridge and the bridge is up on stilts, so the people can get across without getting wet.

In the background the water's bluer, in the foreground the water is greener, in the way up front the shadow of the bridge makes it look dark and murky.

But the thing that brightened up this painting I think is how he made a frame.

You'll see, I do that on our art.

I put a little black frame around each one because it kind of defines where the artwork goes and it makes it like a little frame even though this is called matting my work, so I can mat or mount, and this, he put a little frame of dark red orange around it, and then he did the standing up colors.

Because in the Japanese writing, they write top to bottom.

We write ours side to side and theirs is top to bottom.

And he imitated characters that were Japanese letters.

I don't know if he wrote them the proper way or if it says anything, but it's here and it's beautiful.

And I thought it would be great to do these curving lines similar to what he's done.

And then how we made the rain, if you saw this up close, it's lots of little tiny skinny lines that are coming down.

It was raining so hard here.

But we're going to do something like this.

We'll do the plain, and then we will add the raindrops by gluing them on using tissue paper.

Let me set my things aside.

I can get my paper.

I wanted to tell you some of the letters I chose when I was thinking, well, could it be rain on a...

Here's what we have, rain on a plain.

But what if we had "tr" in front of "ain"?

Train?

Rain on a train.

What if I put "ch" on it?

Remember when you put the C in front of your mouth, that's how you can remember that it says "ch", like achoo.

Chain, rain on a chain.

We could have drawn a chain on the ground and have the rain hit that.

What about "dr"?

Drain?

Well, you could have water going down the drain.

And what about "br"?

Brain?

Rain on the brain, you could have someone with their head open and the rain falling in on their brain.

But I chose plain, nd the artwork we're going to do is using my pastels and doing it in a fashion that I'm going to have to look at it, boys and girls.

I'm going to do a green and yellow stripe of some farmland and crops growing, and they do it in rows so that they can get in between, the farmers can pick in between.

So I'm going to do a green and yellow stripe and a brown and blackish brown stripe, and then I'm going to put my rain drops on after that.

I am going to show you... Let me first look at it this way, boys and girls.

I'm going to start with my grid line green and I'm going to start in this corner and make it go across.

Now, if you're doing this with me go ahead and make yours wherever you want on here.

Maybe you're going to want more sky.

Maybe you are going to want more grass, you decide.

And I'm going to make it all go over to this corner.

So this one, I'm going to make it a little bit skinnier up at the top and wider down at the bottom.

Skinnier at the top, wider at the bottom, skinnier at the top, wider at the bottom, skinnier at the top, wider at the bottom.

And I'm going to do it in a pattern.

So I'm going to do light green, and they did yellow, but I think I like the idea of dark green.

So I'm going to do light green, dark green in a pattern.

Let's say that pattern.

Light green, dark green.

Light green, dark green.

Do you need to do these two colors that I'm doing?

No.

And you can make it any color you want.

Maybe you're a person who likes, I don't know, red and pink.

I'm going to skip this every other one.

Light green, dark green, light green, dark green, light green, and fill it in.

And as you're coloring, it's kind of nice to have a peaceful time where no one's talking.

I have a friend who I went to a class and he said, he thought that teachers talk too much while children were working, so I'm going to let you just have some peaceful thinking time while you color.

I can hear my pastels against the wooden board, though.

And do you notice I'm not going scribble scrabble, this way that way?

I am following the pattern and doing it in a curved line and going that way.

Look, I just went down and follow the pattern, and I like to keep it in a line like this because that way it looks neat and there's hardly any white that shows.

And you remember how to use pastels?

I could use my paper towel and blend these together.

If you like that, look, if you like the little polka dots of white in between, then just leave it that way.

Now my next hill, I'm going to have it go the opposite direction like they did.

So I'm going to do one over here and I want it to be fat near this edge and skinny on that edge, fatter on this edge and skinny on that, fat on this edge and skinny on that, fat on this edge and skinny.

And the same thing.

I will do my pattern of one color then the next color, one color and the next color.

And I thought it was easier if I colored, skip one, color, because I'm keeping my one pastel in my hand and I don't have to set it down, pick it up, set it down and pick it up.

I hope I have time to do a lot more coloring here.

Let's make sure I'm getting all these colors.

I think maybe I'll put the black on here and see where it is.

Is there black in here?

Yes.

I'm going to do this and then I'll put some brown on top so that I can see what color that rich soil is.

There.

Now, see what I mean?

Now it looks kind of too black for me.

So I'll put the brown on top of it and then I can mix it together and make it more like a brownish black, like a burnt sienna or an umber.

It's kind of fun, I love to read the crayons and see what color they call the colors.

Or when you go to the paint store and look at the paint splotches and you go, what color is that?

And they say, oh, winter sunset, or oh, wheat grass on a sunny day.

I like the names of the colors they give.

Now, this is just right for me.

And if it's a rainy day, I think that I'm going to make it have a little bit of dark clouds, and the sky, I'm using the side of my peeled pastel and making my sky this way, because now it's time for me to use my tissue paper.

I brought three colors of tissue paper, light blue, medium blue, and dark blue.

And in order to make my raindrops, I'm going to fold my paper and do some raindrops like this.

And you know what raindrops really look like?

They are just like a teardrop.

It looks like you have a circle that you stretched it up.

So I have this little jar that I mixed some white glue.

Let me get this balanced so I can hold it here.

I mixed white glue with water.

So then I can put a little of it here and set one of the rain drops on here and it will stay, and then I can paint on top.

Then I can put more raindrops here and paint it and paint on top.

And see how good it looks?

Even though it lands on the plain, you can still see it.

And especially if I use one of my darker colors of tissue paper.

Boys and girls, if you don't get a chance to finish this right now, I don't think I will because I want to take a little bit of time.

But I want you to know that it's been a terrific week with you, and I would like you to know who we're going to study next time.

We're going to study Faith Ringgold.

She is an artist who does some painting, but mostly she does things with quilts.

So you come back next week and we will be studying Faith Ringgold and all of her wonderful art.

She is still living.

She's an artist that is still living.

Boys and girls, let's sing goodbye to one another as I keep painting my raindrops on here.

♪ 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 ♪ All right, let me put a little more of these on here and we'll continue working and chatting until the time is... Oh, am I doing it upside down?

I think I am.

Boys and girls, thank you for joining me.

I will see you next week.

Have a great weekend.

Goodbye now.

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