The Tallest Ice Cream Cone!

Patterns are an element of art. Patterns repeat. They can be created with lines, shapes and colors.

Yahoo Kusama is a contemporary Japanese artist. She is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist.

Yayoi Kusama uses a lot of polka dot patterns in her artwork.

Click this link to Find out more about Yayoi Kusama

Since it is almost summer, let's practice pattern while drawing an ice cream cone.

At the bottom of your paper, draw a bowl or an upside-down triangle for a cone. Then, draw curved lines to create your ice cream scoops. Keep adding scoops to fill your paper to the top!

Think of your favorite flavors. Add color and pattern to your ice cream cone. Add any other details that you like.

Here's a link to a video with more ideas!

This week's art activity starts as a scavenger hunt to find objects that are different sized circles. Make a collection of big, medium, and small circular shaped things from around your home. 

You'll also need paper, and something to draw with. Trace around the circular objects you collected. Overlap is okay, and circles can even go off the edge of the paper. Try switching your color or drawing utensil.

You could add more color or designs!

You could work monochromatically, using just a pencil!

You could even put the circles together to make something!

What unique artwork can you make with circles?

Watch the video, and reflect on what you are experiencing and feeling during this time.

Let's create a drawing about our feelings and experiences. Draw a heart shape and divide it into different parts with lines. Use words and pictures to show the things that you feel, have been doing, and other things you want to share about learning at home. 

Here's an example, made by a friend:

Use empty toilet paper tubes to create an artwork!

After collecting some empty tubes, cut or tear the tubes into smaller pieces and arrange them to create an interesting composition. Your sculpture could be abstract or representational. You can use glue, or not. You could even include other interesting found objects.

Here’s a short video about an artist that uses toilet paper tubes in her art:

https://safeyoutube.net/w/KV65

You could add color.

If you do not have a tube, try using a cut or torn cereal box.

Line with Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist. His abstract paintings have a distinct style. What kinds of lines do you see? In what directions are the lines going? What shapes and colors do you see?

Link to video biography on Piet Mondrian

Link to video showing the evolving style of Piet Mondrian

Link to online tool for creating art like Mondrian

Look around your house for rectangular and square items that are black, white, or represent the primary colors. Place them carefully in a snug arrangement so they fit well together. A dark background will work best. Take a snapshot of your creation and send it to me, or post on Seesaw. Be sure to clean up when you finish, just like we do in class.