objective: students will be able to...

  • Identify sides of 2D shapes: Triangle, Square, Rectangle and Sphere
  • Use lines to divide 2D shapes into sections
  • Combine 2D geometric shapes to add-on and build larger structures
  • Use color to distinguish space, and portions of shapes

ARTIST FEATURE: paul klee

Make your own colorful klee castle

materials and supplies needed

Paper, (if the paper is white paper, make sure you fill the white spaces in with color!)
Crayon
Colorful Oil Pastels (Crayons, Colored Pencils, Watercolor or other Paints will work, too!)
1. Make towers out of rectangles and squares, just like building blocks. Save room for a drawbridge.
2. Use lines to make circles and triangles inside of some of your blocks. Use straight vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines to split up some of your boxes into pieces.
3. Pick your first color and color in some of the spaces you created in your castle. Try not to put the same color next door to itself.
4. Add your second color. If you used a cool color for your first color, use a warm, complimentary color for your second color.
5,6,7...Keep adding color to the spaces in your castle until every space is colored in.
8. Add a big round circle for your sun.
9. If you drew your castle on a white piece of paper, color in all of the white sky with a bright color.
Admire your colorful artwork!!

explore more:

PictureFish Magic by Paul Klee
ABSTRACT ART is art is about the elements of art: line, shape, space, form, color, texture, & value. Abstract art doesn't have realistic details and objects in abstract art don't look like realistic objects. 

Is Paul Klee's artwork about the fish realistic or abstract?

creating abstract art from Realistic objects: 

 Look at the pictures. Try to draw the same picture on a plain piece of paper, but only draw the SHAPES that you see...leave out all of the details. Fill in the shapes with bright colors. Fill in around the shapes with color to cover any white space. TAH DAH!! Abstract Art!

compare & contrast:
​look at the 2 artworks in the pictures...

Picture
Red Balloon, Paul Klee

vs
Count how many things are the same in the two artworks.
​Count how many things are different about them?
HINT: Paul Klee's painting uses 2-DIMENSIONAL (Flat) shapes, Suvero's sculpture is 3-DIMENSIONAL (it has FORM that you can walk around)

Walk around a real SUVERO sculpture in google street view

  1. Create a 3D Sculpture like Suvero's out of paper HERE