Andy Warhol Style Pumpkins

Andy Warhol Style Pumpkins

Medium:  Oil Pastels, Water Color Paint

Reason for Lesson:  Help students understand pop art with an emphasis on contrasting warm and cool colors, and Andy Warhol's specific style.

Label:  Pop Art, Warm and Cool Colors

Preparation prior to class:  Collect supplies.

Class time: 1 hour

Materials:  White cardstock 8x11", pencils, pumpkin cutouts (1 per student), oil pastels, water colors with brushes, cups, water, paper towels.

Lesson Instructions:

1. Have students fold paper in half hot dog style, then unfold and refold again in half hamburger style.

2. Using a pencil, lightly trace pumpkins in each of the four squares.

3.   Using oil pastels, color in pumpkins with various warm colors.

4. Using water color paints, paint the squares around each pumpkin with contrasting cool colors.

Self Portraits done in Andy Warhol Style

Self Portraits done in Andy Warhol Style

Medium:  Markers

Reason for Lesson:  Give student an understanding of pop culture art, emphasizing Andy Warhol's style of art.

Label:  Pop Culture, Color

Prep Time:  Take pictures of each student…add 1 hour.  15 minutes prep time

Preparation prior to class:  Photograph was taken of each student and developed in B&W to gain highest contrast for easy copying.  Tracing paper of a 4x6 size was cut.  Copy time for each student was done in class.

Class time: 1 hour

Materials:  White cardstock, tracing paper, markers, pencil, sharpie and ruler

Instructions to Lead Lesson:

1. Trace Photograph using pencil lightly.  Be sure to instruct students to leave large gaps for color.  For example, large gap in eyebrows, lips, etc.

2. Trace over pencil using sharpie, erase any pencil markings

3.   Photocopy the 4-image.  See handout for how-to achieve this result using PV copier.

4. Use ruler to separate images

5. Use Markers, color in images.  Instructed students to use one color in one section of an image so that many colors can be used.  Encourage a white space for a more interesting effect.

Credit:  The Crafty Classroom

Andy Warhol in Review for Class Lesson

Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔrhɒl/;^[1] August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Picture from Bio.com

His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.

Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. 

As age 8, Andy Warhol became very sick from complications from Chorea, a nervous system disorder.  This left him bedridden for several months where he spent much of his time listening to the radio and collecting pictures of moviestars and growing in understanding of American culture of the period.  His mother, an artist herself, also taught Andy how to draw.  At age 9, Andy was given a camera and had a makeshift darkroom in his basement.  He later stated, it was during this time of his life is where his artistic personality developed.

After graduating high school, Andy Warhol planned to become an art teacher, but then studied commercial art and began a career in magazine illustrating and advertising.

Warhol's work both as a commercial artist and later a fine artist displays a casual approach to image making, in which chance plays a role and mistakes and unintentional marks are tolerated.

 Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482), 1984

Moonwalk, 1987

 Female Fashion Figure, 1950s

 Self-Portrait, 1986

Marilyn Monroe

Campbell Soup

Art work examples are from the Warhol.  The information about Andy Warhol was gathered from Wikipedia and from Bio.com