♪ 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.

♪ (guitar music) (upbeat music) - Hello, early learners.

It's Mrs. Readwright.

I wanna welcome you back to the art room, where we are doing the ABCs of art.

And we've gone through all the alphabet, yesterday we did P and after P comes Q and Q is for queen.

What artist would be painting a queen, you ask?

Well, let's do our hello song.

Yesterday we sang what a cow says in the morning, and today it's the turkey.

♪ When turkeys get up in the morning ♪ ♪ They always say good day ♪ ♪ When turkeys get up in the morning ♪ ♪ They always say good day, ♪ (gobble noises) ♪ This is what they say.

♪ (gobble noises) ♪ This is what they say.

♪ Alrighty.

And today we'll sing the alphabet song, and you'll hear, that I say, Q is for queen, ready?

♪ The A, B, C, D, E of art.

♪ ♪ That's the way that we will start ♪ ♪ P is for puppet ♪ ♪ Q is for queen ♪ ♪ R is for roses that we have seen ♪ ♪ S for sunflower ♪ ♪ Trees start with T ♪ ♪ Art and the alphabet A, B, C. ♪ Now our artist is one we have already met.

He did the Four Nutcrackers.

He also did Four Snowmen, when we were doing those two studies.

And today we're looking at this queen that Andy Warhol painted.

It was a time he was doing these paintings in 1985.

He was doing painting series called The Reigning Queens.

Now some Queens are famous, because they were married to famous Kings, but the four women that he painted were all women that were Queens on their own.

They didn't have to marry a King to become a queen, they were queens on their own.

And queen Elizabeth II who is still the queen of England, she is the person he painted.

And he did her in all kinds of colors, but this one, he used the Royal purple.

Now purple was a color that wasn't used very much in the way back days, because it was so hard to make.

The blue, the purple those colors were very hard to get, so very few people used them.

But look how we made the teal, this color of gold, her crown isn't gold here, but when I make her, I'm going to put a golden crown on.

And after he did her face and didn't paint it in, he left it peachy, but he colored these shades, so that shadows make it look like her neck isn't just connected to her head in a way.

Oh, look, it's Andy Warhol puppet.

I was at my house on Saturday and I heard (bell ringing noise) and my Alexa said, "Someone is at the door," and you know who was there?

Andy Warhol.

It's a little puppet that I bought and it came in the mail, and I was so happy to get it, because it kind of looks like the picture that we have of him.

But he was known for wearing those big glasses too, and he's got on a shiny red jacket.

All right.

So Andy Warhol did the picture of the queen and he wanted her to be pleased with his work.

And she saw it of course, because she was alive when he was painting it.

And we're going to talk about how we can make this.

Now you can make your queen any kind of looking woman you want, it doesn't have to look like queen Elizabeth.

As a matter of fact, when I draw my oval face and put the neck on, I'm gonna make a pretty fancy necklace, and I'll put her dress in a color that I like, and I'm doing all of this, either coloring or painting.

So let me set my clipboard and pointer stick aside, and pick up my table and get started here.

Whoa, come on table.

Get up here you.

And I have my paper already ready.

You know, I told you, I like to do the outline, because it seems as if it finishes it off better.

So if you like to draw a line around your paper, just use a ruler, a straight edge really works well.

And I'm going to decide how big I want her face.

Now, if I put her face up like this, where will her crown go?

There's not room.

So I'm going to move her head down, so I can still have room for her fancy shoulders, 'cause I want to put that necklace on there, you know?

So I'm going to put my face pretty much in the middle, and do it as much as my fingers to the crease in my thumb, but that's the kind of paper I'm using.

And I have a pencil here, so I'm going to just make myself a little sketch of how big I want it to be, now remembering that the crown is there.

So, you know how I like to put a little dot and I think how big should her face be?

Maybe to right there.

There's another dot and I'm going to put her neck.

So here we go, here goes my oval.

It's just a curve that goes down and it curves around about the same size.

And on Andy Warhol's we can see her ears and her necklace and her earrings on there.

So, I'm going to put two ears flat near her head, flat near her head, 'cause you don't want it to be so big, because it ends up making them look kind of like a monkey, which we don't want the queen to look like a monkey.

Let me bring over some of my paints that I might use.

What colors?

These are really bright and I think I like that.

So, maybe, so she doesn't get to painty on her, I'll move her up a little bit.

Now I want to use my golden paper that I brought.

And you might remember this from when we did the Nutcracker, and I taught you how I measure.

I put it across her head and I make a little mark where I think the crown will go.

So here's where it is.

And I can either use my pencil, or I can just do a little tear.

And I'm gonna make how tall I want it to be, and I'm curving it.

So, you might like it better to draw it on the back, 'cause the paper is white on this wrapping paper, but I'm going to go up and curve it over like this.

Put my paper back down here on my suitcase.

That suitcase comes in handy when I want to have some place to put my things.

I'm going to kind of fold it, but not fold it hard, and I'm going to make it all scoopy.

So, if I make some of it pointed and you know how she could have jewels on there, but I'm going to put little marks, so that it makes it look like she has a big crown.

I didn't even mention that I was wearing a crown, I'm trying to pretend I might be the queen of the art room.

Now, I'm going to use my glue, and I got it all started, so it's already coming out a little, and I'm putting it across her forehead so that when I go to paint her, I won't paint over her crown.

I'm going to draw a part where her neck is, 'cause I want to be sure to put her necklace on there.

And then from her neck, I'll go out a little bit for her shoulders and go down to my paper for her clothes.

If you don't put the shoulders where the neck is, you end up having her look as if she has her head just riding on her shoulders.

Oh, this would make a neck... Oh, look how I can use her leftover scraps from her crown for her necklace.

I'm going to do it.

What a good find, Mrs. Readwright.

You know how I like to use my scraps, because it just seems like they're too good to throw away.

And I am going to put my glue stick on there to glue it around her neck.

So here it is, and then I can come back and do any kind of coloring on her I would like.

And you know, I'm not even having to remind you, what if I don't finish right now, will you get to ever see it again?

Yes you will, because I'll bring it back after I finish it.

Oh, her necklace is going to look so good.

That worked out perfectly.

Lemme wipe that glue stick on there.

Now her hair in his picture is kind of turquoise, so I'm going to do that.

I'm gonna make her have some turquoise hair and it's kind of fancy off to the side.

I'm not getting it on her ear.

She has a little bit that comes out from underneath her crown and a little blue hair over here.

I'm gonna move these out of the way, so you might be able to see it a little better.

Does your hair have to be blue?

No, it does not.

Because maybe you want yours to be looking like a realistic person.

I'm gonna put this kind of Navy blue and purple together.

I really should be mixing it in my lid, so that it does not get mixed up.

I'm going to make her have a purple dress.

I'm going to go down.

Even though he used the teal, I like having purple.

I'm gonna make her dress have a V, so you can really see her necklace.

Oh, I like that.

I like how I'm taking my time, getting next to the necklace and not too much.

Different pink, get that magenta in there and some of the dark blue and mix it up, 'cause magenta and dark blue will make this purple dress.

Boys and girls are you painting yours now?

Are you being careful not to get on your furniture?

See how I'm doing this very close and careful here.

And you can add other things to your picture, that maybe I'm not adding.

Maybe you think, Oh, I want her to have a pet in here, 'cause she does have dogs and she rides a horse, and she has all these great things about her, that you could learn more about her, and decide what else you might want in the picture, or you might want to just do color blocks.

And I think blue looks good with orange, so I'm going to put some orange next to her.

So, the color blocks mean it's a block of color.

And I'll put the orange next to her hair, get up close to her skin, but don't paint over it.

Put that there.

I can keep painting this in.

This isn't a just fast, fast project, I'm taking my time and thinking, what will I do next?

The whole time I'm painting I'm thinking, what do I want to add next?

What would look good now?

And you know, I'm doing these careful strokes of painting, so that it does not look like I was a baby and painting it when I was a baby.

'Cause babies just take a paint brush and they go back and forth, back and forth, every which way, because they haven't learned about painting yet, but you are older and you will paint your picture in a controlled way, that means you have control of it and you're in charge of it and fixing it up.

And if you would take a picture of it and send it to me here at the studio, you know what we offer you for mail.

If you send your home address, and we can send you one of the little books that are full of activities that you would like, you could do that.

I'm still gonna do this.

Now I wanna tell you, while I continue painting, about tomorrow.

It's going to be the letter R and we're going to paint.

So, if you bring some paints and some construction paper, and your brush and your water, then you'll be able to paint some roses with me.

And if you don't have those things, do not worry, because you could use your crayons to do the same thing.

It's going to be roses in a vase.

So let's see this here.

I'm going to continue painting this.

Let me set it aside so I can clap my legs, when we sing our goodbye song to you.

Oh, Oh, the pencil's trying to roll across my queen Elizabeth.

I still have to put her face on there.

Alrighty Boys and girls, you know how to put two eyes, a nose and a mouth on yours, so don't worry about finishing her right this minute, you can always work on it later.

All right.

♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye ♪ ♪ Give a smile and wink your eye ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends ♪ Boys and girls, thank you for joining me today, doing the letter Q and I will see you tomorrow.

Bye, bye now.

(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 ♪ (guitar music)