Hi, everyone…I made a daily schedule of when I will be posting art assignments. I know you have a lot on your plate so I thought this might help! The students have a whole week to do their assignment, it is due by the next time I post for the grade- which means 7 days. Please let me know what they did or send a photo through dojo or my email (include the teacher name so I know which class):

zecharj@dearbornschools.org

Mondays: ASD/Young 5 AND Kindergarten

Tuesdays: First and Second Grades

Wednesdays: Third Grade

Thursdays: Fourth Grade

Fridays: Fifth Grade

Let’s learn a bit about an artist love and he draws and paints things we ALL love!

Wayne Thiebaud:

1. Born November 15, 1920, Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
2. He is American painter and printmaker who is well-known for his colorful paintings depicting commonplace “production line” objects and items on display: pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs. He also painted landscapes and figures.
3. Thiebaud uses thick paint and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.
   1. “You take a lemon meringue pie. It’s quite a beautiful thing…It’s more than just a subject, it’s also a kind of relationship to the paint itself. You really feel like you’re sort of making the meringue and…working with the pie.” Wayne Thiebaud.
4. One summer during his high school years he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios drawing “in-betweens” of Goofy, Pinocchio, and Jiminy Cricket at a rate of $14 a week.
5. Thiebaud studied Commercial Art in school.
6. He tried cartooning and commercial art, but eventually his passion for painting and art history led him back to school to study art education and studio art. In 1951, Thiebaud began a dual career as an art teacher and an artist in Sacramento, California.
7. Wayne Thiebaud is often incorrectly associated with American Pop Art because of his many images of “everyday” and mass culture objects. However, his artwork executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly pre-dates the works of the classic pop artists, suggesting that Thiebaud may have had an influence on the movement because of his images and use of color.

Use a plastic cup to draw the lollipops. Draw the front first by tracing the cup completely. Then slide the cup slightly to the right and draw the “side” of the lollipop.

Lay a popsicle stick or ruler under the lollipop to draw the stick (draw a curved line at the bottom of the stick.

Add a half circle shape as a holder for them and make it look three dimensional, like the lollipops, by adding a back edge.

Now add interesting patterns to each sucker and color! Make them colorful, interesting and tasty looking. Don’t forget to add a surface, like a table, for them so sit on and color that and the background.

I think this will be fun and I look forward to the images you send. Add color with whatever you have at home- marker, crayon, colored pencil, paint, oil crayon…… Please send me a picture of what you make so I can give you credit! When you send it through my email please add your teacher name so I know which class to grade you in.

zecharj@dearbornschools.org

As always, make sure you are doing all of your schoolwork, get outside for fresh air- they are predicting a beautiful weekend, be helpful at home and Be Kind!