Kindergarten Andy Warhol Pop Art Hands

As the school year is winding down (only 20 more school days, but who's counting???!!) this is a project I like to do with kindergarten.  The neon bright colors just make me think summer.  To start the lesson I have the paper folded for students into thirds and in half again, which makes 6 folded squares on the paper.  Students are instructed to trace the hand they DO NOT write with (this always causes some sort of melt down) 6 times, one in each square.  I did this lesson last year and controlled the color choices a little more, this year I just let them go.  I did stress not to have two neighboring squares the same color, for the most part students do a good job at this.  I told them it was okay to use patterns and they did not have to use all the colors on the paint try.  I like to focus on brush control in this lesson, having students very carefully and slowly paint around their fingers.  They start off by painting the squares first, hands second, and lastly (IF they are following instructions and making the right choices) I allow students to paint their hand to stamp in each square.

3rd Grade Pop Art Pumpkins

3rd Graders studied pop art looking at images from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as other pop artists.  Our main focus was on the contemporary pop artist Romero Britto.

Students discussed Pop Art and what that might mean.

Pop Art: Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media.  Pop Art is the movement in art when artists began to create art with subjects of things that are "popular" or iconic. 

We looked closely at Romero Britto's images.  Students identified what the popular image was and to take notice in how Britto divides his pieces up using black lines and placing different patterns in each section.  

We also discussed monochromatic colors.

Monochromatic Color: Containing or using only one color.

Students were instructed to make a Britto inspired pumpkin.  Using orange monochromatic colors students painted their pumpkins, they were allowed to use black for an accent color.  After the students were finished painted they outlined the black lines and patterns with black glue.

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