School Lunch Hero Day is a chance to showcase the difference school nutrition professionals make for every child who comes through the cafeteria. School Lunch Hero Day provides you with the perfect opportunity to recognize the hardworking professionals in your school cafeterias. Between preparing healthy meals for America’s students, adhering to strict nutrition standards, navigating student food allergies, and offering service with a smile, school nutrition professionals are true heroes. | |
Nearly 100,000 schools/institutions serve school lunches to 29.8 million students each day, including 20.2 million free lunches and 1.8 million reduced price (student pays $0.40). That's over 4.9 billion lunches served annually!! Now, perhaps more than ever before, school lunch heroes are pulling together on a daily basis to not only prepare, but package and deliver lunches to students across the country. |
| Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
Art Inspired by FOOD!!!
Wayne Thiebaud American artist Wayne Thiebaud is best known for his colorful and often humorous depictions of commonplace objects, such as pies, cakes, hot dogs, paint cans, and even lipsticks. He uses bright colors, thick rapid brush strokes, and simplified shapes to paint common, everyday food. At times he repeats the desserts over and over again, giving the impression that there is no end to these sweet things. | |
| Claes Oldenburg Most known for his large scale public sculptures, Oldenburg creates gigantic versions of common every day items. This art movement is known as Pop Art. Amongst other things, food is a common subject of his sculptures. He uses many different materials when creating his sculptures. Try to guess what each one is made from. |
Tjalf Sparnaay His hamburgers practically ooze off the canvas. The fried eggs appear the size of continents. And iced donuts could double-up as life rafts. Dutch painter Tjalf Sparnaay describes his work is “megarealism”—at a very large scale. This extremely talented painter focuses on incorporating extreme levels of detail into these large scale paintings of his favorite foods (YES...these are really paintings!) . | |
Let's Get Started...
STEP 1: Draw your BUN I am choosing to use a traditional hamburger bun for my sandwich. You may choose something much more interesting like a cinnamon roll, a waffle, even a cup cake cut in half! With your paper facing the "DOOR" way...or the "TALL" way. draw the bottom at the bottom and the top at the top. Don't FORGET to add some TEXTURE to your bun Let's Review TEXTURE REMEMBER TEXTURE in art is how something "FEELS" or "LOOKS" like it "FEELS". Artists can create two different types of texture, ACTUAL and IMPLIED. |
ACTUAL or REAL TEXTURE means and artist uses materials that actually feel like something when you touch it. Today we will be creating ACTUAL TEXTURE in our collages. | IMPLIED TEXTURE Is when an artist uses special techniques when drawing or painting to make their artwork LOOK like it feels a certain way, but actually is just flat. |
Now that we have reviewed TEXTURE I want you to start to fill your sandwich with all sorts of things. They can be realistic, goofy, edible, or not. It is up to you!
If you look at my sandwich, I must have been hungry when I started because I added more realistic things that you would typically find on a burger....tomatoes, cheese, bacon etc. After that I started to get silly with ice cream and hot fudge, spaghetti and meatballs, even a fish!!!
First start to work through each layer of your sandwich, tracing your lines with colored crayons. Again, you can go with a realistic approach or you can stick with silly!
An important rule to remember is to try to use AT LEAST two colors for every layer. You will notice with my sandwich, I used yellow, orange and brown for the bun.