1. Seeing Below the Surface

2. Paul Klee: Facts
He was born in 1879 in
Switzerland, a country in
Europe.

3. Paul Klee: Facts
His father was a music
teacher.
His mother was an artist.
Paul Klee was a good musician,
writer and teacher.

4. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
He learned to draw with line, shape
and color.

5. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
He realized that a painting did
not have to look like a realistic
copy of something to make good
artwork.
This type of art is known as
abstract art.

6. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
REALISTIC
Rose Garden

7. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
ABSTRACT
Rose Garden

8. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
The objects in
abstract art look
different from the
way they look in real
life.

9. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Mountain Landscape Mountain landscape

10. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Some of Klee’s paintings look
like they were done by a child.

11. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
He worked hard to learn about
drawing with lines.
Dancing Girl

12. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Klee used chalk, paste,
watercolors, and crayons in his
paintings.
He loved to use beautiful colors.

13. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Kreuze und Saulen Flowers in Stone Ebene Landschaft

14. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Magic Garden
Arrival of Marie Head of Man

15. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Klee worked slowly. Sometimes
he sat for hours before painting.
Sometimes he worked on six
paintings at once.
He taught himself to paint with
both hands.

16. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Klee created almost
9,000 paintings in his
lifetime.

17. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Cat and Bird
Red Balloon
Efflorescence

18. Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Under the Sea The Golden Fish

19. Paul Klee: Facts
Fish Magic
Around the Fish

20. Complementary Colors
 Colors that are opposite on the color wheel

21. Why Complementary Colors
 Complementary colors are powerful color schemes.
They have one warm color and one Cool Color.
 Cool Warm
 Purple Yellow
 Blue Orange
 Green Red

24. The Project
Paul Klee said:
“A line is a dot that
went for a walk.”

25. The featured painting.
Bird and Cat

26. Step #1: Draw a border around the paper.
Draw light guidelines down the center and
across the middle. Draw a large "W" type
shape for cats head.