♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (acoustic guitar music) (upbeat cheerful music) - Hello, early learners.

Welcome back to the art room.

It's me Mrs. Readwright.

This week, we're talking all about the alphabet and art.

And today is letter N. And letter N stands for night.

And we're seeing artist that we studied for a whole week a while back.

And that's Georgia O'Keeffe.

When we studied her flowers and how she went off to Hawaii and painted flowers and leaves, well, it's her, but she's doing one that she saw in the desert when she lived there.

It was in 1917.

It's called Starlight Night.

And it's a very simple piece of art, but I thought it was beautiful and kind of fun to mix the colors.

So I hope you're ready to go.

Let's take a look at our song of the ABCs of art.

♪ A B, C, D, E of art ♪ ♪ That's the way that we will start ♪ ♪ K is for kitchen ♪ ♪ Lobster starts with L ♪ ♪ M is for mother we can tell ♪ ♪ N is for night ♪ ♪ Ocean starts with O ♪ ♪ Art and the alphabet ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ So here it is.

N is for night.

O'Keeffe's paint at night was stars that are bright.

We crawl into bed and we say, goodnight, Bright, night.

Ready?

Bright, night.

They both say -ight.

Rhyming words.

They both end with -ight.

Bright, -ight, -ight.

Night, -ight, -ight.

Let's look at the painting.

This is the night sky as she saw it.

Below, it's very, very, very dark blue, almost black.

It's a color they call indigo.

Indigo.

And then this is the sky.

And these are the kind of stars you might've seen, but this is the way she saw the stars and decided to paint them.

So she put them really in rows.

It looks like an array you might see when you're in math, where everything is in a grid, straight down and straight across.

If that's how you would like to do after being inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe, you do that.

I plan to do it as much as I can because it's gonna be hard to see where the white will go on white paper, but I'll show you what I'm going to do.

And here she is, Georgia O'Keeffe.

This was when she was later in her painting life.

She painted things like flowers and landscapes.

For a while, she lived in New York and she painted buildings.

For a while, she lived in the desert and she would find old bones and paint bones.

And that's our girl, Georgia O'Keeffe.

Let me set my things aside and get started on our Starlight Night.

Put that here and get my table.

I'm using a great big white crayon.

You could use your white pastel.

And you know why I'm using those is because when I paint over it with watered down paint, my paints are so good that they really will cover over it and I don't want that to happen.

So I have to press hard with my crayon.

And this one, I've had for a long time, but I haven't used it very much.

One time I bought a box of white crayons, just white ones.

So I had a lot of white crayons, but I brought my pastels, my little broken pastels in a bag in case I decided to do that.

And you may not have white pastels or a white crayon at all.

And if you do that, then just paint around the outside or draw around the outside of where you think your stars will go.

But what I'm going to do.

Oh, I could even use my straw as my straight edge.

I can go across.

So I want my stars to be maybe.

I'm gonna put a pencil mark for mine right now.

And then the others below it, I won't.

I'm kind of trying to do it where they're kind of spaced out.

That's good.

Now, I'll get my crayon and press hard and do a star.

And they really are just like rectangles are shaped.

I'm not drawing around the outside.

Normally I would draw around the outside and fill it in.

No, I'm just coloring it.

Color a star, color a star, color a star.

Now I'm gonna put my finger here and just go below that.

A star, a star.

And they might be jiggy jaggy 'cause I'm not looking.

I can't tell where the crayon really is on here.

So that's probably what's happening to you.

She has one, two, three, four, five, six.

She has many rows.

I'm not going to go down very far because I want to make that really blackish, blue, indigo ground and then paint this different colors as I go up.

Maybe I'll put one more row.

Let me move my pastels out of the way.

One more row.

I think I better put a little newspaper on my table when it comes time to paint 'cause I'm going to want to go all the way to the edge.

Oh, and I put it way back over there.

Can I reach it?

Just one minute, boys and girls.

Let me set this down.

I'm gonna reach back there and get it.

Excuse me please for scooting across the room to get it.

You get to see me do an arabesque like a dance from Deoghar.

Put this on here.

Now I'm ready to paint.

Tap, tap, tap.

Fold this under so it doesn't make a bunch of noise while we're trying to work.

I have my little thing of water.

I brought out a little lid in case I wanted to mix any paints that I didn't have exactly.

Now to make that dark, dark, dark, blue, I am going to mix it up in this lid 'cause I'm gonna need quite a bit.

So I'm gonna put some water in my lid.

You could use a paper plate.

You could use your pie pan we've been using.

Since I'm making a shade, I start out with the color.

If I was making a tint, I would start out with white.

But I'm making a shade, so I start out with the hue or color.

So I'm putting my darkest blue I have.

And how can I make this even darker, boys and girls?

Are you calling out the color you think?

You are right.

I need to put some black.

And I have black in here that's all dried up in my egg carton.

So I just put it in there.

Oh yeah, that's making a good indigo.

I'm gonna get more black.

And is it gonna make it a good indigo?

Yes, it is.

I'm going to do the ground with this one and then I will do the night sky with a variety of blues.

Now I have to get this blue paint mixed up because this one doesn't have to go over the white stars.

So it can just be painted.

Now she just did this, went to the bottom and made the ground.

And hers was kind of an oval on the bottom.

I'm doing mine kind of like hers.

Sometimes I'm inspired by the artist and sometimes I just wanna copy them 'cause I like it so much.

So I go down there.

Do I want that little stripe of dark there?

Maybe not.

And you know what I could do is let this dry and go over it again and make it even darker.

So I'm looking at this one.

And now I want to make it watery.

And I might even use my I use my colored pencil to decide where I'm going to do some other water color.

I like these water colors to come up here, and I'm gonna get rid of this dark blue in case I want to paint it again.

I'll set these aside and get my more watered down paints up here by the stars.

And you know, these are the ones that I put into the lid to make my color.

And I'm going to add a little purple to that to make it a little darker, but I need a lot of water so it we're really not stick to the white crayon.

There we go.

That looks pretty good.

So I can start at the top.

And she made a white rim and purple rim around the edge, and I think I want to do that.

Do you notice?

I really did a good job of doing my crayon mark 'cause it's not sticking to it.

And then I'm going to go here.

There's my first row of stars.

Go in here and make it a little darker, maybe as it goes down.

Dabbing it in my paints.

I like to have a lot of water 'cause I want it to stay away from the stars.

There we go.

And I'll mix it with this.

Oh, yeah.

See, while it's still wet, it mixes with it, and I got a little purplely blue on there.

I like how that looks.

Stay away from the edge 'cause I want to do some magenta around the edge kind of like she did.

And on hers, it goes from darkness at the top to lightest at the bottom, but I'm not doing it exactly like hers, even though I do like it a lot.

Go here and it's staying away from my stars and maybe I'll add a little more purple to this one.

Get it in there.

I'm gonna go across.

And that looks good too.

And did she make it touch?

No, she left a little white in between the bottom of the stars and where the ground is.

And I think I'll make it a little lighter blue and add a little more water to this lid.

I leave my colors in the lid of my water color.

Some people wash theirs out.

And if your teacher likes that, then that's what you'll do.

But when I was an art teacher, I let children have their own paint box so that they could do what they wanted.

Did they wanna make on their lid?

Always have a little paint leftover.

Maybe they mixed the color that they loved and they didn't wanna lose the base of it.

So I suggest leave it there.

That's yours.

You keep it.

I really think this one needs to be a little darker.

So I think I'm gonna see what this color looks like.

I like that pretty much.

So I think I'll add a little of it.

I think that's good.

I'll mix it right on top of that blue and get it a mixture.

And I'll dip in that navy blue and get it over here.

Oh, I think I like it.

This is gonna get a little more on here and I'll put this around here 'cause I still need to add my magenta or pink around the edge or red violet or whatever you've decided to do around your edge.

'Cause she did that was like the light was coming up from the next day and mixing in on the edges and lighting up her sky.

So let me put this over here.

Find a brush that isn't so murky and get into my magenta and make some water for it.

And I'll show you.

I won't be able to finish it right now.

I don't think 'cause it looks like it's getting time to go.

I wanna say goodbye and tell you about tomorrow 'cause tomorrow we're doing the ocean.

There's a man who was a painter in the 1600s, I think.

I'll have to look at his information for tomorrow.

But he painted the great wave in Japan.

And it's such a giant wave.

If you haven't seen it, you're gonna be so surprised 'cause it's swallowing up some boats.

It's time to say goodbye, everybody.

♪ Goodbye, see you next time everyone ♪ ♪ Good bye, see you next time everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to me ♪ ♪ Goodbye, see you next time everyone ♪ I will see you tomorrow with white paper, peach paper, bring it.

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