This unit is all about the cartoon-style drawings of Keith Haring, who drew simple line drawings with profound impact. He was part of the graffiti artist movement of the 1970s. His work was done on walls of subways, bridges, city walls, and even the Berlin Wall in Germany. You will learn about his artistic style and his wish to convey social reform in his art. You will practice his style in several worksheets and then create your own piece of artwork that utilizes his style with your topic and your interpretation of his style.

Supplies--You will need some blank computer paper (some printing will be very helpful for this assignment), a pencil, some thick tipped markers, especially black ones, but also some thick tipped colored markers.

Activities--The attached file is the complete teaching unit, which I was not able to pull apart because of the nature of the file. Therefore, I will make a list here of the pages of the file that you should complete. Other pages you may simply skip. I am also attaching 2 videos for you to watch.

1. Watch the documentary video about Keith Haring (the first one).
2. Using the pdf file, read through the pages, focusing only on the ones listed here. This is the full teaching file, and you do not need to do all of it.

In the Art Teaching Packet on Keith Haring
1. Enjoy the cover picture, by Keith Haring.
2. Read About the Artist (p. 2)
3. Skip the sheet called "Instructions,' which is for the teacher.
4. There are 7 pages of great practice worksheets, some with color suggestions to follow Keith Haring's style. Print out and complete at least 4 (four) of these sheets. You decide on which ones you want to do. These worksheets run from p. 5 to page 11 of the packet.
5. Skip the Social Art sheet.
6. Complete the activity on p. 13, Social Art Lesson in the Style of Haring. The packet includes two sheets for sketching, which have the outline box that Haring used for his work. Use these sheets for sketches. Before you sketch out your work, watch the video below on Haring's style, which will help you.

Next, watch the video on Haring's sketching style. Then you may draw and create your own social issue art piece in the style of Keith Haring.

Finally, Complete the Project Review sheet in the packet (at the end of it). Here, you will reflect on your experience of trying out Keith Haring's artistic style.

Items you need to turn in:
1. 4 of the practice worksheets (you choose the ones you want to do)
2. One sketch sheet as a rough draft for your final product
3. Your final Social Issue Art Project using Keith Haring's style
4. Your reflection on the project.

The directions for this are included in the earlier assignment. This is just to clarify the due date.

This week's Art lesson is super fun and very different! I am assigning 2 of the 3 assignments in this little packet.
1. Complete the Found Objects Color Wheel. Read about it and see examples on the sheet in the pdf below. You will need to do a bit of a scavenger hunt around your house to find objects of the right colors, so that you can create your own color wheel! When you are finished with it, take a picture of it to submit. It will be due on Friday.
2. Complete the Laundry Landscape sheet! You will need to prowl around your laundry (or your own clean clothes!!) to find pieces to make your own landscape. Your landscape can be any view in nature or a view that includes nature and some evidence of human society, like a building or two. You decide. Create the laundry landscape first, take a picture of it, then you draw or paint it on paper. Your drawing/painting and your photo of the laundry landscape should be turned in together. They are due on Monday.

This should be very fun and exciting and creative!

The directions are in the earlier assignment. This is just to clarify the due date.

Our artist this week is Georgia O'Keefe, an American modernist painter. She painted beautiful and unusual paintings of nature, usually flowers or mountains. We will be focusing on flowers for this lesson.

You will need blank computer paper, if you are working in marker or crayon or pastel or colored pencil. If you are working in water color, use water color paper. It all depends on what you have handy at home.

Please watch the videos below, beginning with the introductory one, A Brief History. Then you may watch the other two for ideas and techniques. While these examples use water color or pastels, you will see that you can also use crayons or colored pencils.

Regarding color--Review your color wheel. Choose colors that are analogous (next to each other) on the color wheel. For backgrounds, use complementary colors (opposite on the color wheel). I will add a file with some examples of O'Keefe's work and the color wheel, for your information.

Take you time and have fun here. Be creative. If you want to use a picture of a flower or a photograph of a flower, you may do so. You may also use a real flower in your garden. Just be sure to take a picture of it and make it a close-up. O'Keefe did super close-up work on flowers, so you will be making big flowers that overfill your page.

We will discuss this assignment tomorrow in our class meeting. Have fun! The assignment will be due on Monday.

Today's lesson is on Cubism and self-portraits. Picasso invented cubism, a method of art that uses geometric shapes, like circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, trapezoids, etc. The art will look a little different from realistic art, but you will enjoy becoming a cubist artist and making a portrait of yourself, using the cubist style!
1. Watch the videos below.
2. Get a piece of clean printer paper, a marker or dark pencil, and something to color with (crayons, markers, paint, colored pencils, or whatever you have).
3. To begin, make a line drawing of your profile (the side view of your face).

UPDATED BELOW. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.

I just wrote up this assignment (a long, step by step one, and it all disappeared with one wrong keystroke!!). I will go over this in our class meeting today at 9:00 on Google Meet.

Supplies--several sheets of clean computer paper, a pencil, any crayons, markers, or colored pencils you have, a black Sharpie or other dark marker

I will post more on this later, after we have spoken in our class meeting.

NEW MATERIAL TO READ AND COMPLETE

This assignment is meant to be all about you, reflecting on yourself (being introspective!!) and being creative.
1. Get a sheet of blank paper.
2. Think for several minutes about all the elements that make up who you are. Consider hobbies, favorite things of any kind, people, music, talents, beliefs, identities or labels that really fit you today, etc.
3. On your blank sheet, draw pictures or symbols that show these things. Use phrases or words, as well.
4. On a clean sheet of blank computer paper, trace your two hands, which you have put together with the tips of your thumb and index fingers touching. Your hands will create an upside down heart in the middle.
5. Using light pencil, outline your hands, which you have centered on the clean paper. If you need help from a family member, that is fine. Once you have the outlines drawn to your satisfaction, outline them in black Sharpie or marker or dark pencil.
6. The inside of your handprints represent you. Draw or write the things about yourself that you brainstormed above, into the outlines of your hands and fingers.
7. In the heart between your hands, draw a self-portrait OR write a saying, phrase, or quotation that shows your truest self.
8. On another brainstorming sheet, write all the things you do in the world, including in your own home, in which you make Jesus come alive for yourself and those around you. Think broadly and recognize all that you bring to the world.
9. On your hand outline, use the background to write and/or draw these things that you bring to the world and others that help them know Jesus better.
10. Color and decorate your sheet. Use whatever coloring implements you have. Decorate as you wish, but DO NOT put so much on the sheet that its key ideas get overshadowed.
11. When you are finished, take a picture of your sheet and email it to me.

For Art, we will be working on our Greek god commercial, a digital video commercial that should contain all relevant information about your product or service. Your commercial should also be catchy, entertaining, and make us want to spend our hard-earned drachmas on your business!

Today, begin writing your script and planning out your commercial. You may use brothers and sisters, pets, parents, or others at home who can play characters in your commercial. I doubt you will be ready to film today, but if you are, that is great! Just post in as a video you turn in. I will give you feedback.

For the final commercial (today and for now, this is a rough draft), you will dress a bit like your god, provide a jingle (catchy song to go with the ad), provide a slogan that is memorable. Feel free to begin working on these elements today, too.