1. Drawing the Eye: Saturation Warm Up: What do you think is the focal point of the painting?

2. Drawing the Eye: Saturation Warm Up: Did your opinion about the focal point of the painting change?

3. Jean Siméon Chardin Still Life with a White Mug, c. 1764 Answer the following questions: Where is your eye drawn to first? Next? Why do you think that your eye is drawn to this point in the composition first? Drawing the Eye: Saturation

4. Answer the following questions: Where are your eyes drawn to in Johnson’s painting? Why does your eye alight on these points in the composition? William H. Johnson Born: Florence, South Carolina 1901 Died: Central Islip, New York A View Down Akersgate, Oslo 1970 oil on burlap 25 1/4 x 31 1/4 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum Drawing the Eye: Saturation

5. Winslow Homer The Milk Maid, 1878 Write a paragraph identifying the ways in which Homer uses color to draw one’s eye to the central figure of the milk maid. Be sure to discuss the use of bright, saturated colors, as well as complementary colors. Drawing the Eye: Saturation

6. Exit ticket: The project that you are working on in class, the grayscale picture with a color focal point, uses the strategies that you have learned today. Explain how you are going to incorporate these strategies into your painting. Please include the following words or ideas: focal point, saturation, tint, shade, eye movement. Drawing the Eye: Saturation

8. Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903 Oil on panel, 121.3 x 82.5 cm The Art Institute of Chicago How many colors do you see? Is this painting made with warm colors or cool colors? When was this painting made? Is this a good artwork? Do you like it? Is the people/person in the picture happy or sad? What was the artist thinking when they made it? What was the artist’s purpose for making the artwork? What is the artist’s opinion of the people/person in the artwork? How many colors do you see? Is this painting made with warm colors or cool colors? When was this painting made? Is this a good artwork? Do you like it? Is the people/person in the picture happy or sad? What was the artist thinking when they made it? What was the artist’s purpose for making the artwork? What is the artist’s opinion of the people/person in the artwork? Dirck van Baburen The Procuress 1622; Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 107.6 cm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

9. Andre Derain, Houses of Parliament at Night 1906 Titian Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1547 Samuel H. Kress Collection National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. Mary Cassatt The Boating Party, 1893/1894 Chester Dale Collection National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. Running Hot and Cold

10. Work together with the members of your group to answer the following questions: Why do you think the artist placed the warm and cool colors in particular? Where are most of the warm or cool colors clustered together in the imaginary space of the painting? (i.e. are warm or cool colors all or mostly found in the foreground, middle ground, or background?) Does the placement of these warm and cool colors have an impact on whether or not objects or buildings appear closer or farther away? Andre Derain, Houses of Parliament at Night 1906 Running Hot and Cold

11. Titian Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1547 Samuel H. Kress Collection 1957.14.6 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. Work together with the members of your group to answer the following questions: What do you notice about the distribution of warm and cool colors in this painting? Do warm and cool color cluster together, or are they evenly distributed across the composition? How does Titian use color to help create a sense of depth in this image? Why do you think that Titian clothed Saint John in red? What effect does that color choice have on the viewer? Running Hot and Cold

12. Work together with the members of your group to answer the following questions: How has Cassatt distributed warm and cool colors in this painting? Do warm and cool color cluster together, or are they evenly distributed across the composition? How does she use color to help create a sense of depth in this image? Why do you think Cassatt chose to depict the boat as bright yellow? What kind of effect does that color choice have on the viewer? Mary Cassatt The Boating Party, 1893/1894 Chester Dale Collection 1963.10.94 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. Running Hot and Cold

13. Warm Up: What is this painting about? Write your answers on the ½ sheet of blank paper on your desk. Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

14. Discuss with your group how the painting changes when you see it in color. TIMEKEEPER: 3 min. RECORDER: Write on the arrow EITHER: a. one thing that was revealed by the color b. one thing that was confirmed by the color REPORTER: Bring the arrow to the board and tape it pointing to what your group focused on. Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

15. Pablo Picasso The Tragedy, 1903 Chester Dale Collection National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

16. Henri Matisse Pianist and Checker Players, 1924 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Thomas P. Anshutz, A Rose, 1907 (American, 1851–1912) Oil on canvas 58 x 43 7/8 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Kees van Dongen Saida, c. 1913 (?) Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

17. "Despite the wealth of pictorial elements, a curious, calm order of structured harmony prevails. Pianist and Checker Players is suffused with a warm glow made up of complementary tones of yellow and red." Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

18. "The woman at leisure and the likening of a beautiful woman to a flower are common themes in late-nineteenth-century American painting. They reflect the contemporary definition of a woman's proper sphere: the realm of leisure, beauty, and the aesthetic, harmonious domestic environment." Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

19. This picture is of a child. Explain some reasons why it would it would have a red face. Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

20. Thomas P. Anshutz, A Rose, 1907 (American, 1851–1912) Oil on canvas 58 x 43 7/8 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Kees van Dongen Saida, c. 1913 (?) Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

21. Same Different Name: _____________________________________________________________ A RoseSaida Focus: Tone Mood Placement of color in the picture Purpose and Use of Red ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the difference in personality between each person based on the artist’s use of color. Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

22. Vocabulary: Use these words to compare and contrast the personality of the people in the paintings color schemewarm colorscool colors mood tone

23. Warm Up: Which painting is the sunrise, and which is the sunset? How do you know? Which painting is spring, and which is fall? How do you know? A. B. The Whole Spectrum

24. A.B.C.D. E.F.G. The Whole Spectrum

25. Summary: You are going to paint a picture of the White House. You want to depict it in two ways: a.at night with fireworks going off b.during nuclear fallout Use the colored pencils in front of you to color it the way it would look in those two situations. The Whole Spectrum