In sixth grade we examine the Artwork Historic Time Line. We all the time do a “fake” stained glass window venture utilizing liquid watercolors and sharpies. We get inspiration from wanting at paintings created by Louis Tiffany and different examples of home windows present in church buildings.
This 12 months I believed I might herald Gothic stained glass home windows and the gorgeous home windows discovered within the giant cathedrals. I discovered the gorgeous La Sagrada Familia Cathedral designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, Spain.
Background Info
Antoni Gaudí was born on 25 June 1852 in Reus, within the Baix Camp, which was then the second metropolis in Catalonia. He attended the Escoles Pies faculty, the place he excelled in Geometry and Arithmetic, and acquired a conventional, spiritual and humanist training. Son of a coppersmith, he began studying about crafts in his father’s workshop in 1860.
In 1868 he moved to Barcelona and ready for entry to the College of Structure, which he joined in 1873. He mixed his research with working as an assistant in an architectural observe, in addition to within the workshops of a carpenter, a glassmaker and a locksmith the place he realized these crafts.
He was inconsistent in his Structure research, however stood out within the topics of design, drawing and mathematical calculation. In 1878, after qualifying in Structure, he acquired his first official fee. As his skilled fame grew he undertook bigger initiatives commissioned by the bourgeoisie similar to, amongst others, the Casa Calvet, the Casa Batlló and the Casa Milà. In 1883 he took over the design of the SagradaFamilia, whereas additionally engaged on different initiatives.
Gaudi stated that color was the expression of life, which is why he determined to make its presence felt within the stained glass home windows of the Sagrada Familia.
Here’s what you want:
6″ x 18″ white sulphite paper
Oil pastels
Pencil
Scissors
Sharpie – black
Circle tracers
Oil – child oil or vegetable oil
Q-tips
Fold paper vertically in half . Draw a curve line from the highest of the fold to the sting of the paper. Lower on the pencil line. Additionally reduce about 2 inches off the underside of the paper.
Use circle templates to create 7-9 circles of various sizes. Additionally add some straight strains throughout the paper.
Use a black sharpie or everlasting marker to hint over the pencil strains.
With 2-3 analogous oil pastels (colours subsequent to one another on the colour wheel), together with the shade and tints of these colours, calmly coloration within the shapes ensuring to not use the identical colours subsequent to one another. This creates a extra pleasing piece of artwork.
Use a q-tip and dip as soon as right into a small container of child oil or canola oil and gently mix the oil pastels in every form. Be sure that to begin with all of the lighter colours first then flip the q-tip and use the opposite finish for the darker shades. This retains the colours clear and vibrant and from mixing into one another.
Show in a coloration wheel format for added curiosity.
Carry on Creating!!!
Laura