Art Lesson w/ Ms. Jennifer: David Hockney
Let’s express ourselves by creating a bright fall landscape triptych in the Style of pop artist David Hockney.
About the Artist:
David Hockney is one of the most important painters of the 20th century. Born in Bradford, England in 1937, Hockney was one of the big artists involved in the pop art movement in the 1960s. Pop art was a style of art that was bright, full of colour. It was made by lots of young artists who felt that the art they saw in galleries was a little bit boring. He likes to paint the seasons of the English countryside in large, bright paintings. His method of connecting multiple canvases to create one huge piece of artwork was devised because he was not able to fit the large-scale painting up the stairs of his Bridlington studio. When an artist paints a scene on two or more surfaces, we call it a polyptych. A "diptych" is a two-part work of art; a "triptych" is a three-part work; a tetraptych or quadriptych has four parts; pentaptych five; hexaptych six; heptaptych seven; octaptych eight parts; enneaptych nine; and decaptych has ten parts.
David Hockney, Woldgate Woods, 2008, private collection
Installation shot courtesy Van Gogh Museum. Photo by Jan-Kees Steenman.
David Hockney, Woodgate Woods III, 20 & 21 May, 2006, The David Hockney Foundation.
Installation shot courtesy Van Gogh Museum. Photo by Jan-Kees Steenman.
Materials:
A photo of a landscape in your favorite season, or work directly outdoors!
3-6 index cards or small pieces of paper
Your favorite drawing or painting medium in bright colors
Tape
Cardboard or a clipboard to use as a drawing board
Instructions:
Line up your index cards or pieces of paper into a long rectangle. You may tape them lightly together (on the back side).
Sketch your composition of the landscape lightly in pencil if you wish.
Draw the outlines of the main elements of your landscape.
Begin to use bright colors to fill out the landscape. Use colors that tell the viewer which season you are showing in your artwork.
Finish adding color to each rectangle until they are all covered.
To display your art, you can separate them slightly and mount on a piece of larger colored paper or posterboard.
For Doodlebugs Ages 2-5:
Materials:
Index cards or small/medium rectangles of paper
Washable markers or crayons
tape
Instructions:
Lightly tape the back of a few index cards or papers together from the back side to make a larger rectangle.
Allow your Doodlebug to draw and color on the large rectangle.
When they are finished, pull the pieces apart slightly and arrange them on a larger paper. You can also allow them to use the individual pieces like pieces of a puzzle to rearrange and try to line up back into their original artwork arrangement!
Don’t forget to share your artwork with Jennfier@BlowingRockMuseum.org
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