Art Lesson w/ Ms. Jennifer: Frank Stella

Let’s express ourselves by creating art in the style of American color field artist Frank Stella.


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About the Artist

Frank Philip Stella was born on May 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts. At first Stella painted in an Abstract Expressionist style. After moving to New York City in the late 1950s, however, he established his reputation with a series of innovative paintings marked by great simplicity of design. In the 1960s he made a series of paintings marked by intersecting geometric and curving shapes, using vivid, harmonious colors, some of which were fluorescent. Today’s lesson will focus on these geometric shapes. Later in his career, Frank Stella explored more organic shapes and sculptures.



Materials:

  • Paper 

  • Washable or water-soluble markers

  • Protractor and ruler

  • Circles to trace

  • White or yellow crayon


Watch Ms. Jennifer create her Frank Stella inspired drawing here:

Instructions: 

  1. Using a white or yellow crayon, begin to trace geometric shapes with your protractor, ruler, and tracers. Fill the page with overlapping shapes.

  2. Begin to color with the markers. Plan so that no neighboring shapes use the same colors. Make patterns or use a random method to place colors.

  3. Color all or as many of the shapes as you like. 

Music by bensound.com


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