Josey’s Art School
Presents
This Lesson: Joan Miro “Portrait II”
Discussion
· Joan Miró started painting when he was fourteen he attended an art school. He then started to develop his own style to draw scenes of trees and landscapes.
· Miro was the son of a watchmaking father and a goldsmith mother, he was exposed to the arts from a very young age.
· After overcoming a serious bout of typhoid fever in 1911, Miro decided to devote his life entirely to painting by attending the art school.
SOURCE: https://kids.kiddle.co/Joan_Mir%C3%B3
Materials needed
Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)
8.5x11 or 9x12 white cardstock/precut poster board/140lb watercolor paper – something with a bit more stability to it than copy paper in order to withstand the amount of paint and glue your students will be using. You will need enough for each participant to use as the base for his/her artwork
Paintbrushes and water bowls
YOUR CHOICE: Tempura/Acrylic/Watercolor paints
Rulers (optional)
Baby wipes
Aprons
Length of Time/Duration of project:
30 minutes
Prep work:
- Gather the materials
- Draw dotted lines breaking the page into 4 quadrants depending on the age of your students
This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes
Instructions
You have a few options for how you want to proceed with developing the main thrust of the project. I work with 3-5 year olds in a Montessori setting. This means that you are met with a gamut of skill levels. Some children will have no problem handling more of the details of this project which means less time needed to prep and more of the experience for the way the artistic process works is offered to the child. I have attempted to give you two ends of the spectrum but please feel free to modify as needed.
1.Take your piece of white paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.
2.(Older children) With your ruler, break the page up using dotted lines into 4 quadrants. Create a wobbly oval in the top 2 quadrants.
3.Create a mountain shape evenly divided within the bottom 2 quadrants.
4.Draw an arrow that starts in the middle of the mountain and reaches into the oval about 2/3 of the way up. Create a half circle on the right-hand side of the arrow.
5.Draw a parallel line on the top of the arrowhead.
6.Close the ends of the arrowheads with circles.
7.Add a curved line on the left-hand side of the oval; add a jagged line inside.
8.Extend the arrow into the bottom two quadrants.
9.Add a circle to the left-hand side of the mountain shape.
10.Add a border to the left and right side of the painting.
11.Color in the painting using whatever you have on hand. You may choose to have the students copy the same color palette or work with the color wheel or invite them to design the piece anyway they would like.
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