The document provides information about artist Margaret Morisson and her paintings featuring toys and treats on a massive scale after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. It includes the titles of some of her paintings featuring sweet treats and toys, and outlines the 10 step process for an art project incorporating non-perishable toys, trinkets, and candies arranged in a still life composition to be rendered in colored pencil using gridding and shading techniques.

1. TOYS AND TREATS Studio Art

2. ARTIST: MARGARET MORISSON
 an ar tist and professor of
ar t, currently living and working in
Athens, Georgia
 paintings incorporate figurative
elements as well as surreal
subjects and still life images
 diagnosed and treated for breast
cancer in 2008
 notable shif t and her work became
a visual celebration of life
 her dark palette was replaced with
jewel like color s, high intensity
 turned to imager y that became
physical and psychol ogi cal therapy
 Sweet treats and toys on a
massive scale predomin ate d her
paintings

3. “Sweet Nothings”

4. “Marbles
”

5. “Menace”

6. “Trojan Horse”

7. “Right Between The Eyes”

8. “Wax Lips”

9. “Candied Apples”

10. “Ring Green”

11. STEP 1 - FOR HOMEWORK:
PLEASE BRING IN ANY
CANDY, CHOCOLATES, SWEETS, TOYS, OR TRINKETS THAT YOU
WOULD CONSIDER PUTTING INTO YOUR PROJECT.
PLEASE KEEP TOYS ITEMS ON THE SMALL SIDE AND THE
TREATS NEED TO BE NON-PERISHABLE.

12. STEP 2: TECHNIQUE
Watch the demo on
colored pencil
techniques and then
complete the
colored pencil
technique art card.

13. STEP 3,4,5: EXPERIMENT, PLAY, AND
SKETCH!
 You will get a 6”
square cardboard card
 experiment with the
various arrangements
of your toys and
candy/treats to create
an interesting
composition
 5 thumbnail sketches
of possible
compositions in your
sketchbook

14. STEP 6: CONFERENCE!
 5 Thumbnail sketches in your sketchbook =
conference with your teacher to discuss which
composition is the most successful

15. STEP 7: CREATING YOUR STILL LIFE
 After your
conference, you will
glue your toys and
treats into a permanent
sculpture using a hot
glue gun
 If you do not want to
hot glue your items
make sure you trace
them onto your card so
you know where they
are supposed to be!

16. STEP 8: MAKING A VIEWFINDER
make a gridded String Tape
viewfinder by
cutting a small
square out of the
paper provided and
then crossing
thread across your
viewfinder to create
4 quadrants.
Viewfinder

17. STEP 9 & 10: GRID AND DRAW!
 Sketch out
COMPOSITION
 check for proportions
and placement of your
toys and treats. Use the
gridding to help to check
this
 add color to your
composition making use
of the colored pencil
techniques demonstrated
as well as referencing
the technique guide for
reminders.

18. TOYS AND TREATS:
EXAMPLES AND IDEA STARTERS