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        • Keukenhof
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    • Additional PLACES
  • Artists
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • Artist of the Week - 1st 9-weeks >
        • Monet
        • Artisans of the Ozark Folk Center
        • Renoir
        • Wood
        • Rembrandt
        • O'Keeffe
        • Hokusai
        • da Vinci
        • Durer
        • Bierstadt
        • Adams and National Parks
      • Artist of the Week - 2nd 9-weeks >
        • Raphael
        • Munch
        • Rivera
        • Titian
        • Rockwell
        • El Greco
        • Constable
        • David
        • Christmas art
      • Artist of the Week 3rd 9-weeks >
        • Degas
        • Vermeer
        • Cassatt
        • Turner
        • Homer
        • Whistler
        • Seurat
        • Van Gogh
        • Disney
      • Artist of the Week 4th 9-weeks >
        • Sargent
        • Chagall
        • Kandinsky
        • Picasso
        • Dali
        • Remington
        • Mondrian
        • Pollock
    • YEAR 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Chihuly
        • Moses
        • Durer and Line
        • Matisse and Shape
        • Van Eyck and Texture
        • Velazquez - Space
        • Christy - Constitution Day
        • Monet and Color
        • Rembrandt and Value
        • Art Review- 1st 9-weeks
      • 2nd Nine Weeks Art >
        • da Vinci and Drawing
        • Cassatt and Painting
        • Hokusai and printmaking
        • Picasso and Collage
        • Rivera and murals
        • Michelangelo and sculpture
        • Relief Sculpture
        • Rodin and modern sculpture
        • Schulz and cartooning
        • Van Allsburg and illustration
      • 3rd Nine Weeks Art >
        • Warhol and Pattern
        • Escher and positive negative space
        • Van Gogh and rhythm
        • O'Keeffe and scale/proportion
        • Caravaggio and Emphasis
        • Kandinsky and Variety
        • Cezanne and Balance
        • Art in ancient culture
      • 4th Nine Weeks Art >
        • Bruegel and genre
        • Illuminated manuscripts
        • Adams and photography
        • Wright and architecture
        • Seurat and art displaying
        • Toulouse-Lautrec and graphic art
        • Tiffany and decorative arts
        • Drake and crafts
        • New Media Art
    • Halloween Art
    • Veterans Day & Art
    • Thanksgiving art
    • Valentine's Day art
    • Presidents Day Art
  • Musicians
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Beethoven
        • Tribute to Aretha Franklin
        • Jimmy Driftwood
        • John Phillip Sousa
        • Claude Debussy
        • W. A. Mozart
        • John Williams
        • Idina Menzel
        • Amy Beach
        • Marching Bands
        • Carl Orff
        • William Grant Still
        • Scott Joplin
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Stephen Foster
        • Andrew Lloyd Webber
        • Johnny Cash
        • Aaron Copland
        • Musical Elements: Rhythm with Infinitus
        • Thanksgiving Music
        • Tchaikovsky
        • Handel
        • Johnny Marks
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Stephen Sondheim
        • Pentatonix
        • Sergei Prokofiev
        • Elton John
        • Louis Armstrong
        • Glen Campbell
        • Cher
        • The Gershwin Brothers
        • Henry Mancini
        • The British Invasion
        • Woody Guthrie
        • Dr. Seuss Music
        • Alan Menken
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Florence Price
        • Yo-Yo Ma
        • George M. Cohan
        • Rimsky-Korsakov
        • Rodgers & Hammerstein
        • Antonio Vivaldi
        • Albert Ketelbey
        • Bette Midler
        • Gustav Mahler
        • Robert Rodriguez
        • Stevie Wonder
        • Carrie Underwood
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      • 1st Nine Weeks >
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        • Glen Campbell
        • Dolly Parton
        • Beach Boys
        • Richard Wagner
        • John Lennon
        • Camille Saint-Saens
        • Rossini
        • Mark Alan Springer
        • Review Week
        • Bobby McFerrin
        • Randall Standridge
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Chicago
        • J. S. Bach
        • Banjamin Britten
        • Leonard Bernstein
        • Ella Fitzgerald
        • One Voice Children's Choir
        • Christmas Around the World
        • Jingle Bells
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Bedrich Smetana
        • Disney Composers
        • Garth Brooks
        • Edgar Varese
        • Joni Mitchell
        • Frederic Chopin
        • Valentine's Day
        • Koji Kondo
        • Philip Glass
        • Lin-Manuel Miranda
        • Review Week
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Marian Anderson
        • Johann Strauss, Jr. >
          • Johann Strauss, Jr.
        • John Denver
        • Moses Hogan
        • Barry Manilow
        • F. J. Haydn
        • Wynton Marsalis
        • Gloria Estefan
        • George Strait
        • Jake Shimabukuro
        • Yanni
  • CHARACTER WORDS
  • School of Innovation!
    • Laying a Foundation
    • Art Music Plan
    • It's OFFICIAL!
    • Rationale
    • Mission & Vision
    • ADE Approved Plan
    • Graphic Plan
    • Implementation Plan
  • Library
  • G./T.
  • National Blue Ribbon School Info
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Mary Cassatt
(1844-1926)  - USA
              Artwork of the Week - Young Mother Sewing
Painting

MONDAY - Cassatt, American painter

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Portrait of Mary Cassatt
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Photo of Mary Cassatt in older years
Mary Cassatt became a serious artist at a time period when it was believed that women should only spend their time staying home and taking care of their family.  Most people considered art to be merely a hobby for women and not a possible career.  Cassatt lived in Pennsylvania, but she moved to Paris to learn more about painting.  
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Cassatt became involved with the Impressionist painting movement.  She began painting in that style with bright colors, soft edges, and scenes of everyday people and life.  Cassatt’s painting style continued to change through the years to a simpler, straightforward approach.  
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Young Mother Sewing by Cassatt
Our painting of the week is Young Mother Sewing by Mary Cassatt.
YouTube video - Mary Cassatt Impressionist Painter USA [slides of artwork] (4:13 min.)

TUESDAY - Cassatt, Mothers and Children

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Mary Cassatt is known for her paintings of women and children.  She liked to show the special bond between a mother and her child. 
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Our painting of the week, Young Mother Sewing, shows this bond.  The mother sews with the child leaning on her knee.  Their positions show their comfort with one another and their closeness.  Cassatt liked to paint everyday moments.  She felt that they were important.

WEDNESDAY - Oil painting

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"Children Playing on the Beach", oil painting by Mary Cassatt
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"The Loge", oil painting by Mary Cassatt
Many of Cassatt's paintings were created using the most traditional type of painting, oil on canvas. Even though she did use other mediums, Cassatt worked with oil paint over her entire career.
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Oil paints are made from color pigment and an oil binder, typically linseed oil.  Turpentine is often used to thin oil paint. 
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Oil painting - Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait
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Oil painting - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona LIsa
Oil painting replaced egg tempera as the most popular painting medium by the 15th century.  Jan Van Eyck was one of the leaders in first using the medium of oil paints.  Almost all of the Renaissance artists used oil paints.  A part of these artists’ training consisted of learning how to make oil paint by grinding and mixing.  Now oil paints are available in tubes. 

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Artists squeeze out their paints onto a palette, which is typically a board or piece of plastic.  They always arrange their colors in the same order on their palette, and many artists like to use certain colors.  These typical colors used by an artist are also referred to as their “palette”.  
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Brushes are the typical tool for applying oils but palette knives and other tools are also used.  The best things about oil paints are their flexibility and their deep colors which do not change color when dry. 
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Oil painting is usually done on a canvas stretched between a wood frame, but wood panels and other backgrounds can also be used.
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Oil painting - The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Oil painting - Cypresses by Van Gogh
The oil paints can be applied as thin glazes diluted with turpentine such as the painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder or in thick globs as in a Van Gogh painting. Because oils take a long time to dry, artists have more time to work the paint and blend areas.  
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. These two oil paintings are by Mary Cassatt. Her paintings, along with her pastels and watercolors, made her one of the leaders of the Impressionist movement.

THURSDAY - Watercolor painting

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Watercolor by Cassatt
Watercolors are paint pigments that require being mixed with water.  They are available from tubes or a tray and are typically used on paper.   ​
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Misty Morning by Joye Schwartz
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Misty Waters by Shanti Marie
Using watercolors wet-on-wet can produce some exciting results.  This means you use a wet brush that has paint on wet paper.  
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Classic Car by Thomas Needham
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Three MacIntosh Apples by Barbara Fox
Wet-on-dry is painting on paper that is dry with a wet brush.  Using dry paper gives the painter more control, especially for details.  
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Watercolor painting using splattering
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Watercolor sprinkled with salt
Special effects can be obtained when using watercolor paint by spattering, sprinkling salt, scratching, using a sponge, or many other ways.  ​
YouTube video - Watercolor Effects (5:47 min.)
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Top row - Opaque colors; Bottom row - Transparent colors
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Some watercolor paints are transparent in nature and some are more opaque.  Transparent means light is allowed through and opaque means light is blocked.    When transparent colors are layered, each color shows through and affects the look of the others. Opaque colors completely cover up any other color. Transparent colors almost glow on the paper, and opaque colors appear more chalky.   
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Watercolor by David Massey (transparent watercolor style)
The best way to produce pure, bright colors is through layering transparent paints. ​
Brain Pop explanation of opaque, translucent, transparent ​
YouTube video - Difference between transparent & opaque acrylics [although these are acrylics, it's a good demonstration of the meaning of the words] (2:42 min.)
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Watercolor by Cathy Hillegas
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Instead of using white paint, watercolorists create white by letting the white paper show.  They leave it unpainted or sometimes “mask” the area they want to leave white with tape or a masking fluid.  ​​

FRIDAY - Tempera and acrylic painting

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Tempera, also sometimes called egg tempera, is made up of colored pigments and a binder such as egg.  

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Tempera and gold painting from 1284
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1420 tempera painted illuminated manuscript
Tempera has been a common painting medium since ancient days.  Illuminated manuscripts were painted with tempera.  
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Tempera was typically applied in thin layers, as it can’t be used as thickly as oil paint.Tempera paints are long lasting, but they tend to dry lighter in value than when wet. Tempera mixes with water for thinning the paint and cleaning it up.
YouTube video - Tempera paint demo (3:56 min.)
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Acrylic paints
Acrylic paint was developed in the late 1940’s and is one of the more modern mediums used by artists.  It is popular because of the bright colors and because it is versatile (meaning you can do a lot with it). Acrylic paint consists of color pigment mixed with an acrylic polymer binder.  It is mixed and diluted with water, yet the paint is water resistant after it dries.  Acrylic paint dries much faster than oils.  Dried acrylic paint is flexible and doesn’t crack.  

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Acrylic paint swirled
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Acrylic paint masked to create a hard edge
Many different effects can be achieved with acrylics. 
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Acrylic paint used like watercolors
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Acrylic paint used like oils
The paint can be thinned with water and used as a wash like watercolor paint or applied more thickly for an appearance similar to oils. ​​ ​
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Andy Warhol painted his famous Campbell's Soup cans with acrylic paint.
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A Big Splash acrylic painting by David Hockney
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White Center acrylic painting by Mark Rothko
A Bigger Splash by David Hockney was painted with acrylics.  Mark Rothko's White Center is an acrylic painting.
YouTube video - How to paint with oils [or...Why we don't use oil paints in elementary] (2:59 min.)

Some art sites and activities involving painting:

https://www.pinterest.com/marisolfarda/elementary-art-painting/​

Watercolor basics - 
Art is Fun! site
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Watercolor techniques - activity

 

Painting cartoonish birds  (could be done with Rich Davis’s doodle bugs)

This activity could be simplified with Elmer’s glue and watercolor.

A simple painting activity that could be used with letters or numbers

Tempera painting activity using tints and shades

Tempera painting activity that uses geometric shapes and tints and shades

Fall leaves art activity with watercolor and glue (can also be found in Zuni Learning under Watercolor Leaves

Sources:​

Alexander, heather, A Child’s Introduction to Art: the world’s greatest paintings and sculptures.  New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2014.

Art is Fun,. 'How To Watercolor - Painting With Watercolors Is Fun!'. N. p., 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.

Visual-arts-cork.com,. 'Oil Painting: History, Famous Paintings In Oils'. N. p., 2015. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.

Visual-arts-cork.com,. 'Tempera Painting'. N. p., 2015. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.


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