Folk Art Sticks Inspired Painting Objective: Students will study contemporary folk art and be able to recognize

the artistic style of the Des Moines based Sticks. Introduction: What is folk art? Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic. Folk Art is characterized by a naive style, in which traditional rules of proportion and perspective are not employed. Closely related terms are Outsider Art, Self-Taught Art Folk art expresses cultural identity by conveying shared community values and aesthetics. It encompasses a range of utilitarian and decorative media, including cloth, wood, paper, clay, metal and more. If traditional materials are inaccessible, new materials are often substituted, resulting in contemporary expressions of traditional folk art forms. Folk art reflects traditional art forms of diverse community groups ethnic, tribal, religious, occupational, geographical, age- or gender-based who identify with each other and society at large. Folk artists traditionally learn skills and techniques through apprenticeships in informal community settings, though they may also be formally educated. Antique folk art Antique folk art is distinguished from traditional art in that, while collected today based mostly on its artistic merit, it was never intended to be 'art for arts sake' at the time of its creation. Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible "whimsical" antiques. Contemporary Folk Art Many folk art traditions like quilting, ornamental picture framing, and decoy carving continue to thrive, while new forms constantly emerge. Examples: Des Moines based business, Sticks. Check out www.sticks.com to view their work. Observe fonts, colors, imagery, layout, subject matter and materials. Procedure -Check out the class webpage. www.wg-artdept.weebly.com -View examples of works done by Sticks. -Develop a concept/theme for your wood board. -What are your interests? -Do you participate in activities? -Possible Goals? -To illustrate a story. -Incorporate text and images that relate to the concept. -Begin to develop a composition with the style of Sticks in mind. -Consider layout/composition

-How do you incorporate images and text. Make it flow together. Dont just have random images and text. -Get approval on final design and begin to draw out (in pencil) your design. -Once all drawn out, get approval before beginning to wood burn. -When everything has been burned out, spray paint wooden board black -Begin to full in-between the lines with paint using the style of Sticks. Examples of Sticks work.