Lesson 4 A Space for a Family

Today's lesson is also in google presentation format.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13OIxcH5FaOFqyWZpp-DMyLAhc1ZTpsiwA_RMkMRAJaQ/edit?usp=sharing

For today's lesson, choose which of the people in your life will be part of your family picture.  It can be just you and one other person you know, or all the people you live with, or all the people you live with plus all your relatives, or it can be people from school or daycare or your neighborhood.

For sketch time, draw yourself and those people.

by Carlos225 (artsonia.com)

by Jenaya3 (artsonia.com)

What do those people like to do?


Here is an artist who made a painting of a family doing the things they like to do.  His name is David P. Bradley and he is from Minnesota.  He is a member of the Blue Earth band of the Chippewa people.


Click the painting to go to a bigger image from http://plainsart.org/learn/files/2009/12/bradleychip.pdf.

Artist Bio

To be an artist from the Indian world carries with it certain responsibilities.. We have an opportunity to promote Indian truths and at the same time help dispel the myths and stereotypes that are projected upon us.. I consider myself an at-large representative and advocate of the Chippewa people and American Indians in general. It is a responsibility which I do not take lightly.

-David P. Bradley

On your new paper, draw your family doing the things they like to do.
 Can you all do the things you like in one place?
 Use markers.  Leave some parts of the paper white.

If there is time, we will use water and brushes to blend the marker color like paint.




Next time, we will look at buildings that are for really large groups of people.  Here is a preview:

Here is a video of the top 10 tallest buildings in the world as of 2013:


Top 11 Tallest Buildings

Burj Khalifa, Dubai (829.8 m)

Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎, "Khalifa tower"), known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 

Taipei 101 (509 m)

Taipei 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010. In July 2011, the building was awarded LEED Platinum certification, the highest award in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and became the tallest and largest green building in the world.