I TRY You can make your very own prints at home! Here are some ideas from our partners at the Prairie Arts Center. For more, visit the Center Creative Classroom at artscenter.okstate.edu. SUN PATTERNS, DARK CANYON THE PAINTINGS AND AQUATINTS OF DOEL REED FAMILY GUIDE

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LEAF PRINTS FOAM STAMPS CELERY HEART ROSES DOEL REED Use paint to coat the veiny Use craft foam or Styrofoam to Cut away the celery heart and WHO inspired him? backside of a leaf. Flip it onto create your own stamps. Glue pat dry with a towel. Dip in • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot paper and rub the topside to your foam to a wood block, paint. Press your celery heart • Francisco Goya press into an ink pad and print! onto your paper. make an impression. • Paul Cézanne • Impressionists KITCHEN LITHOGRAPHY • Regionalists Use cola, aluminum foil, ink or oil paint, and vegetable oil to create your own lithography prints. For full instructions, check out our Teacher Package at WHEN did he live? https://museum.okstate.edu/learn/educators.html TIPS FOR LOOKING TOGETHER • May 21, 1894 - Sept. 20, 1985 Start with broad questions such as: WHERE did he live, work, & study? What do you see? What do you notice? • Born in Logansport, Indiana AUGUST 14 MIXED MEDIA CITYSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES Look for stories and ask: • Studied in Cincinnati, Ohio SECOND What is happening? What is going on? • Served in France during WW1 • Taught at Oklahoma A&M, SATURDAYS SEPTEMBER 11 Look for details and ask: Stillwater, Oklahoma PRINTMAKING What colors, lines, and shapes are used? What • Retired in Taos, New Mexico FALL 2021 materials do you think are used? WHAT is he most known for? OCTOBER 9 Let the art inspire a story! SPOOKY THEATER • Landscape artist Artists, like Doel Reed, are storytellers. They • Printmaker communicate their ideas, feelings, and experiences • Master of Aquatint NOVEMBER 13 through their art. When artists share their work with 11 AM - 2 PM the world, they invite others to participate in their VETERANS APPRECIATION MONTH WHY do we love Doel Reed? FREE stories. The meaning, or narrative, of their work COME & GO changes depending on who is looking at it. • Proud member of the National Academy of Design DECEMBER 11 Does the artwork spark a memory? Does it give you CURATOR FOR A DAY a feeling? Use your memory or imagination to tell a • His New Mexico home and story inspired by the art. studio now serve as an educational site for academic

Doel Reed, Canyon Farms, 1978, oil on canvas, 30 x 45 inches. and leisure learners museum.okstate.edu Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK, Gift • Wrote the book on aquatint of Richard Sias, DRC 2014.003.001. WHAT IS VALUE? WHAT IS A PRINT? Value is how light or dark I SPY Have you ever used a stamp? Then you’ve made a print! A print is a work of art on paper that usually something is. A value scale has Search Doel Reed’s art for the items below. blocks from white to black with exists in multiple copies. It is created not by drawing directly on paper, but through a transfer process. shades of gray in between. A range The artist begins by creating a composition on another surface, such as metal or wood. The transfer of values can help give an image happens when that surface is inked and placed in contact with paper. There are many different printing a believable shape, an interesting techniques and processes. atmosphere, or a desired mood.

Practice your art skills. Use the space below to create a value scale of your own. INTAGLIO RELIEF Ink is pushed below the surface of the printing Ink is applied to a carved surface. Relief techniques A picnic lunch. Some pictographs. plate. Intaglio techniques include etching, include woodcut, linocut, and stamps. What would you bring What do you think they mezzotint, and aquatint. on a picnic? could mean? OTHER PLANOGRAPH Screen printing uses ink The printing plate is not or paint pressed through a carved or scratched but prepared screen. Collagraphy chemically prepared or uses textured materials stuck inked. Techniques include to a the printing surface. When lithography, monotyping inked and pressed, textures and gelli prints. transfer to the image.

Check out museum.okstate.edu for a video demonstration of artist Mark Sisson creating a print! A white house on a hill. Colorful fields of crops. Who do you think lives in What do you think they the house? might be growing? I DRAW Draw your own landscape.

Some mailboxes by a road. Some puffy clouds. What do you think is inside What is the weather like in the mailbox? your town today?

TALK ABOUT IT! Choose one of Doel Reed’s artworks. How many different values can you find? Which values does he use most? Least? What is the effect?

How might Doel’s art be different if he used different values or different colors?