GREEK VASE PAINTING SCHOLASTIC ART Sept/Oct 2007

NAME _________________________________ Period____________________________

DATE: ____________________________
Assignments

Materials

1. Read Scholastic Art Greek Vase Painting issue p.

1-9. You will be designing a Greek vase or
amphora. It will have decorative designs around the
top edge and around the base. The main design will
be an important personage or event from Greek
mythology or history.
2. Choose white or orange paper for your project.
Use a straight edge to lightly draw diagonal lines
across the page, from corner to corner, with pencil.

Scholastic Art Magazine;

handouts on Greek
motifs; gods and
goddesses worksheet.

4. See example of New Yorker cover for the

Olympics (August 9 & 16, 2004.) It has repetitive
borders at the top and bottom of the vase. You need
to add some borders. They can be geometric shapes,
or organic shapes (from nature plants, birds, fish,
ocean waves, flowers, vines.)
5. Have your teacher check your pencil design on
the vase before you fill it in with paint or marker.
Try not to get paint on the metal part of the brushes.
Clean brushes by swishing them in the water.
Gently dry them by placing them in a folded paper
towel and pulling the handle towards you. If you
did your vase design on white paper, you will be
using a large brush to put a terra-cotta colored wash
over your vase, then the black designs over that.

New Yorker cover,

August 9 &16, 2004.

Scholastic Art Magazine;

white or orange
cardstock or Bristol
board 9 x 12 or 11 x 17;
Look over the different shapes of Greek vases and
2B pencils; erasers;
amphorae. Use the diagonal lines on your paper to
Greek vase shapes
draw a vase that is symmetrical (the right side equals handout
the left side.)
3. Design the central image on your vase. Is it a
Greek god or goddess? Is it a scene from one of the
Greek myths? Write
a. the Greek name of your vase shape
b. what it was used for
c. and a description of your central image:

Final grade:_______ Points____

Black markers, black ink

or black tempera paint;
fine and medium
brushes; paper towels,
newspaper or plastic tarp;
water bucket.

Done

Grade or
points