Edvard Munch was a very famous Expressionist painter
from Norway who had anything but a normal childhood background.
Let me explain.
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To begin, Munch lost his mom to tuberculosis
when he was only five years old.
His dad, who happened to be a medical doctor in the army,
was left to raise five kids on his own,
which was definitely not easy.
Then, just a few short years after,
Munch lost his favorite sister Joanne
to the same dreadful disease-- terrible.
To make things worse, Munch was almost always sick as a kid.
Often during the winters, he would miss lots of school,
simply because he was too sick to attend.
His father also loved to tell Munch scary stories
right before bedtime.
Not your normal bedtime routine, right?
Seriously, why would you do that?
Taking all these things into consideration,
let's take a look at "The Scream" painting.
Actually, a better translation of the original title
would be "The Scream of Nature." [SCREAM] One day,
Munch and a couple of friends decided
to go for a walk along the water's edge.
Any idea what time of day it is?
Yep, you're right.
It's during sunset.
Have any of you ever been near water at sunset?
If so, have you ever seen the colors in the sky?
Yeah, you see these yellows, yellow-oranges, and reds.
Well, Munch saw those too, but this time his eye
saw something else.
To Munch, these colors reminded him of blood.
So if you've ever been by the water during a sunset,
where do you also see these colors from the sky?
That's right, in the water.
Well, Munch sees these too, but again he
sees something totally different this time.
He looks in the water in sees blood again.
Check out the background of this painting.
Do you see these two figures in the background?
Yes, those are Munch's friends.
Are they with him?
No, and here's why.
When Munch saw these colors both in the sky and the water,
he was so scared.
Have you ever been scared before?
Yeah, and have you ever been so scared
that you can't even move?
That's exactly what is happening here.
So Munch is standing here in the middle of the boardwalk,
frozen and scared.
But look at his hands.
Where are they?
Yep, on his ears.
The reason why is after seeing the blood
in the sky and the blood in the water, all of a sudden Munch
said he felt as if nature was screaming at him. [SCREAMS]
If you hear something so scary, what is the first thing
you're going to do?
Put your hands on your ears.
Now that you understand what Munch was seeing
and that he felt as though nature was screaming at him,
does this seem like something that could really happen?
Do you think Munch felt like he was not on this planet?
Nope, he sure didn't, which is probably
why he painted himself almost looking like an alien or even
mummy-like.
I'm guessing all those scary stories
at bedtime wasn't such a good idea, was it?
Let's take a look at what we're going
to need to make this project.
The first thing we're going to need is some paper.
Let's not use anything too big, so that way we
can try to get this finished.
The next thing we need is a pencil and a ruler,
since we need to draw some straight lines.
The next thing you're going to need,
let's print off something to look at.
I found this online, was able to find it pretty quick.
You don't have to have it in color,
but it's going to really help to be able to see it,
since we're going to be using oil pastels for this project.
Reason being, I want this to look as much like an oil
painting as possible.
And since these things are packed with so much oil,
they're going to be perfect for what we're going to do.
Let's get started.
How many of you guys know what a light bulb looks like?
Boom, all right.
Let's start with the head.
Start with what's closest to us and work from the background.
Now, you could go ahead and do the background first,
but I'm going to start off with his head
because I need to know about where it's at.
So I honestly start off with just making a simple circle.
And then I'm going to overlap it with an oval.
Literally, I think of his head as the shape of a lightbulb.
And then I'm just going to trace around those two shapes.
Ta-da!
Next thing I'm going to do is go ahead and use some simple ovals
for his arms, some ovals for his head.
And I'm just going to kind of sway down
his body in kind of a rectangle.
I've already got his mouth working here.
And his eyes are crazy.
Hands contouring just a little bit around there.
Bam.
Remember, this does not need to look just like it.
We're just kind of playing.
Next, I'm going to use a ruler for the boardwalk
because it's just going to be much easier.
I'm going to make a mark down here where
I think the big rail goes on and off the paper.
Next thing, I'm going to sketch lightly in case I mess up,
and start putting in some of these lines.
I see three rails.
So to start off, I'm going to go ahead and make all three
of these lines.
And I'll create the others to give it
that 3-D depth so it actually looks
like a piece of wood in a bit.
And one comes off the page here.
I'm telling you, having something
to look at is really, really, really helpful, especially
with a project like this.
Next thing I'm going to do-- and I'll
come back and kind of refine this-- we talked about the sky.
So I'm going to go ahead and put in that horizon line.
Real simple.
Doesn't even look just like it.
Almost looks like a wave.
Next thing I'm going to do, I see this little lake
back here where we were talking about the two little boats
back there.
So I'm going to put that in.
And it looks as though this is like this big current coming
right at them.
Again, some smooth, quick lines for that.
And just for fun, I'm going to put real simple,
these two little-- you can just see the silhouette of them--
these two little sailboats.
That should get us started.
Don't try to oversketch it, because we're
going to cover most of it up with oil pastel.
To give you a quick idea, because I
want you to really take it from here,
what I'm going to do to use these oil pastels
is really think of them like I'm painting them with some really,
really thick oil paint.
So first thing I'm going to do is lay down some orange.
And you can hear and you can see I'm
putting this stuff on thick.
I'm going to work from there into some of this red-orange.
If you notice, I'm not blending in together yet, am I?
I'm going to wait.
Next thing I'm going to do is this red.
And I waited to use the red last because--
and we'll know that as well with the darker colors
when we get into using black.
The darker the color, the stronger it is.
So if I want to come back and go over that color later,
it's not going to be that easy.
So I'm going to be pretty careful with the dark colors.
Next thing I'm going to do is bring in that yellow
wherever I see white now.
And you can already tell with these oil pastels--
it's what I love-- the difference between these
and crayons, the minute I start overlaying the color,
it's going to start blending.
You might want to find some place
or put something underneath your paper,
because we're going edge to edge with this baby.
So don't be afraid to accidentally get it
off the paper.
Next thing I'm going to do, I may come in with some white
later.
But the first thing I'm going to do, taking my finger
and I'm going to blend those colors in the direction
that I see the lines going.
Love oil pastels.
Be careful.
It's coming off on my finger, which is OK.
It's going to do that.
The thing you need to be careful about
is if you keep pushing and going, going over, all
of a sudden all the color is gone.
And we want these colors to be vivid and bright.
I think you guys have a basic idea.
Let's go ahead and start sketching this out
and let's get the oil pastels out.
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Be sure to finish the whole picture.
I'm really excited to see what you create.
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