Masterpiece: Mountain Road Artist: Paul Gauguin (Pol Go-gehn) Concept: Surprising Colors Mixing Secondary Colors Lesson: Tempera Landscape Objectives: Students will learn to mix primary and secondary colors Students will create a landscape with a variety of surprising colors Vocabulary: Line, Shape, Primary and Secondary Color, Tint, Primitive or Tropical Landscape Materials: 8 x 10 white drawing paper paper plates for mixing color red, yellow, blue and white tempera paint small color wheels to use as a guide in mixing colors (optional) large brushes Newspaper paper towels Water dishes or water containers to share to clean brushes. Colored construction paper for mounting ** Helpful Hints ** Make sure the students do not focus on details in the landscape but rather a simple scene with mountain, sky, trees and water for example. Process: 1. Hand out 8 x 10 white construction paper one per student. 2. Have the students write their name on the back before they get started. 3. Have them sketch a simple scene from nature with their pencil. 4. Hand out large brushes and a paper plate with blue, yellow, red, and white tempura paint. (Use about a tablespoon of each color.) 5. Optional: hand out small color wheels as a guide to mix their colors.
6. Go over the basic rules for mixing secondary colors from primary colors, for example ask them what they will get if they mix blue and yellow, and so on. 7. Tell the students they are to paint a landscape with surprising colors. The sky should not be blue, but any other color will do. The grass could be purple; the water could be pink, and so on. 8. Make sure that they fill their entire page with color in their scene. 9. Make sure they understand they are mixing colors and using the white, if desired, to lighten or tint the primary and secondary colors they have mixed. 10. When their artwork is completed have them put in a safe place to dry. 11. Once the artwork is dry, volunteers can mount their work to 9 x 12 construction paper and hang outside classroom.
3rd GRADE--PROJECT #3 Artist: Paul Gaugin Masterpiece: Mountain Road Lesson: Landscape/Tempura, Surprising Colors Mixing Secondary Colors Project Samples:
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Paul Gauguin (1805 1903) Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. One of his grandmothers was a native of Peru. At the age of seventeen, Paul enlisted in the navy and, for six years, traveled around the world. Then he worked as a bank employee, got married, and became the father of three children. He earned a good living and became interested in Impressionist painting, which he started collecting. Eventually, for his own pleasure, he too started painting. He was twenty-five. He took some art classes and kept company with artists. Everything seemed to be going his way. But, in 1883, an economic crisis caused him to lose his job. So he decided to make a living with his painting and his real adventure began! But try as he might to be a painter, he could not sell his paintings. Because he had no money to support his family, his wife and children went to live with her parents. Alone, Gauguin stayed in Brittany, where many other painters lived and worked. Gauguin later tried to live with Vincent van Gogh, who had settled in Provence, but it did not work out: their temperaments were too different. So Gauguin decided to move even further away. He sailed for Tahiti in 1891. His painter and writer friends paid for his trip. Once there, he began painting, but the mosquitoes and the humidity soon made him sick. There were neither vaccines nor antibiotics as there are today and so he came down with illnesses. Also, he felt rather lonely. By 1893 he went back to Paris. More and more young artists were beginning to respect him. But, just as before, his paintings did not sell. So he left again for the Pacific and settled on a lost island of the Marquesas Archipelago, living among the natives. Shortly thereafter, he died in 1903 at the age of fifty-five. Gauguin wanted to combine both old and new art techniques to create beautiful paintings. He said: I am leaving to be left alone, to be freed from the influence of civilization, and I only want to do simple art, very simple. He wanted to paint images of untouched nature and people who live off of the land in a way no one had before. As a result, his paintings are simplified. The flatness of the images makes viewers focus on the shapes and strong colors in the paintings. Gauguin s use of simple shapes, peaceful scenes, and contrasting colors brought a whole new style of art to the painting world influencing artists for years to come.