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

Portfolio for the 2014-2015 Year in Art

Portfolio for the 2014-2015 Year in Art

1.  Fold one of the poster papers in the office hamburger style leaving about a sharpie length at the top. 

2. Staple the sides (about 5 staples each side)

3.  Glue their name (cut the letters out in the office- or have them trace a couple)

4.  decorate the portfolio with all their favorite things.  Color with markers or color pencils. Color front and back. 

  

Andy Warhol by Little Hands

Andy Warhol by Little Hands

Medium: Crayons and Tempera Paint

Reason for Lesson:   Create an Andy Warhol inspired art piece, while enforce the warm/cool color concept

Preparation: 10 minutes to cut background paper

Class time:  30 Minutes

Materials:  1 9x12 white piece of paper for each student. Black paint. Cut out triangles 8 for each student 4 warm colors 4 cool colors. Glue sticks 

Instructions to Lead Lesson:

Review the Andy Warhol Style of Art: Introduce Andy Warhol- August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga 

Some of his work:

Discuss warm and cool colors. Warm colors are colors in a fire-Orange, red, pink and yellow. Cool colors are in a lake-blue, purple, green and teal. 

Directions for Lesson: 

1.  Have each student fold paper in half Hamburger way and hotdog creating two lines on their paper. 

2. Take one section of the paper and have the kids coat it with the glue stick.

3.  Take one piece of warm color paper and one cool piece of paper. Match them up and stick them to the glue. 

4.  Repeat with the rest of the paper.

5.  Next with have adult paint hand in black and put one hand print in each section.

6.  Repeat

 Credit:  Kristin Wallace of Art-A-Baloo Crew Team

PV Hawk Art, Channeling Our Andy Warhol

PV Hawk Art, Channeling Our Andy Warhol

Medium: Tempera Paint and Markers

Reason for Lesson:   Create an Andy Warhol inspired art piece, while enforce the warm/cool color concept

Preparation: 20 minutes to cut hawks and prep paint trays

Class time:  1 hour

Materials:  1 9x12 sheet of white paper per student. Paint in warm and cool colors. Markers in warm and cool colors. Hawk cut outs. Cups for water, paper towels, paper plates, paint brushes.  

Instructions to Lead Lesson:

Review the Andy Warhol Style of Art: Introduce Andy Warhol- August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga 

Some of his work:

The project:  

1. Directions; fold paper in half hotdog style and again in hamburger style. Creating 2 lines on your paper. 

2. Trace the hawk cutout in each box

3. Color in each hawk with two of the hawks being warm colors and two being cool colors. 

Remind the kids what warm and cool colors are. Use sharpies. 

4.  Paint each background of the hawk with a opposite color. If the student did a cool color hawk, the background will be warm and vice versa. 

Take your time and go slow. Use small amounts of paint so it will dry faster. 

5.  If time at end retrace the Hawks with a black sharpie if all paint is dry. 

Credit:  Kristin Wallace of the Art-A-Baloo Crew Team

Origami Bird at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge

Origami Bird at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge

Medium:  Watercolors and Origami Paper

Reason for Less:  To teach the blending and use of watercolor and teach the folding of paper "Origami" into shapes

Label: Origami and WaterColor

Prep Time:  10 minutes

Preparation prior to class:  Limits to only gathering supplies

Class TIme:  1 hour

Materials:  

• 6x12 Watercolor Paper 
• watercolors
• sharpie
• Brush and water bowl
• Origami 5x5 Paper

Lessons for Instruction:

After a recent field trip to Spokane's Turnbull Wildlife Refuge, the 4th graders were able to record the scenery of their trip while learning a new artistic craft of Origami Birds.  Origami (Japanese for Paper Folding) is a great way to end our year in art.  For those students who are inspired by this project, they may paper craft their former studies into great little shapes all summer long. :)  I found this truly simple Origami Bird at FreeKidsCrafts, where there are not only simple birds, but frogs, fish and much more.  Before students begin their assignment, they should reflect on the Habitats they studied during their field trip:

• The Aspens
• The Wetlands
• Ponderosa Pine Woodlands

• Biscuit and Swale Prairies

  
  
  
  

  Begin with the simple Origami Bird:

Then the watercolor Habitat:

Wintery Trees…Watercolor Fun

Wintery Trees…Watercolor Fun

Medium:  Watercolors and oil pastel

Reason for Less:  To teach the blending and use of watercolor and the relationship/effect between oil pastel and watercolor

Label: Line Drawing

Prep Time:  10 minutes

Preparation prior to class:  Limits to only gathering supplies

Class TIme:  1 hour

Materials:  

• 9x12 Watercolor Paper 
• watercolors
• sharpie
• Brush and water bowl
• brown oil pastel
• foam blender

Instructions to Lead Lesson:

Step 1:  Using sharpie, with freehand technique, have students draw long line branches.  Just as people, trees are not perfect…have students explore imperfections of the tree such as bent branches, even broken branches, crossed branches, etc.

Step 2:  Have students fill in the branches with lines of age and experience.  A few nods are fun to add too.

Step 3:  Color in tree with Brown Oil Pastel.  Color lightly and use blending foam to move color.

Step 4:  Now the fun begins using watercolors.   Suggest the students stick to the cool colors of night, cold and snow, or perhaps use the warm colors of the sun melting the sun and warming the soon to be spring air.  Try to encourage students to blend the colors together, not have too big of blocks of one particular color.  Like seen here...

Step 5:  When complete, students will appreciate the scape of a chilly wintery scene…or bringer days to come. 

Thank you!