Objectives:
Patients will gain an understanding of how much of a role
emotion plays in artmaking. The connection between line, color, texture, shape
etc. will be explored as patients create a painting which expresses a certain
emotion or feeling.
What You Need:
- a
large sheet of heavy paper (or canvas)
- acrylic
paint (for older students)
- tempera
paint - or crayons (for younger students)
- paintbrushes
- water
- containers
- mixing
trays (could be styrofoam trays or sheets of old cardboard)
- paper
towels
- newspapers
- old
shirts or painting smocks
- music
(various styles)
- scrap
newsprint
- pencils
What You Do:
- Talk
about emotion. What does the word emotion mean? What kinds of emotions do
we experience on a day-to-day basis.
- Talk
about color. How do certain colors make us feel? Why?
- Talk
about line. What kinds of lines are there? Straight, jagged, squiggly,
zig-zag, etc.
- Warm
up by having patients draw lines (using pencil on newsprint) based upon
certain feelings. IE: draw happy lines, draw angry lines, etc.
- You
can also encourage your patients to draw lines based on the music they are
hearing (IE: jazz, classical, pop etc.)
- Once
everyone is "warmed up" begin working with the paint. Make sure
each patient has a paintbrush, water and access to at least the three
primary colors (red, yellow and blue).
- Give
a quick demonstration of how paints are used properly (always clean
brushes before dipping into a new fresh color ... treat the brushes well
by not squishing them down on the paper etc. Also, review color mixing
(yellow + blue = green; red + yellow = orange; red + blue = violet)
- Everyone
can then decide on an emotion or feeling which they will express using
various paint colors, lines, textures and shapes.
- Allow
your patients to take as long as they need to create the final work,
encouraging them to stand back from time to time to have a really good
look at what they are doing. Is it moving in the direction they want it
to? Are the desired feelings starting to emerge?
- Remember
too that this is a very intuitive and subjective exercise and as such the
works should not be analyzed by the instructor, but rather by the kinderartists
themselves.
- When
the paintings are complete, hang them up and see how others interpret the
work. Does everyone see similar emotions in the same works? Yes? No? Why?
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