Pop Art Portraits

4th Grade is finishing up their unit in Pop Art, they took a look at the work of Roy Lichtenstein and his use of color as well as the Benday dot style he used.

Students first drew the outline of their face, they used a caricature style to keep the facial features simple.

After drawing the portrait, students outlined their face with a thin sharpie.

After outlining the face, students drew diagonal lines across the face lightly, these lines will serve as the lines in which to put the benday dots.

Students put dots on the lines in a brown, red, yellow, peach, or orange color. Most students chose a color similar to their skin color.

After finishing with the dots, students erase the pencil lines underneath, and create a different dot pattern for hair, shirt and background.

Students color with colored pencil under the dots and create an interesting background.

After finishing with the portrait and the background, students create a caption and cut it out, adding it to their portrait.

Keith Haring

With the recent cold streak coming through Minnesota, our school had two unscheduled days off due to weather.  This becomes a nightmare for keeping the classes on the same pace; NOT ANYMORE! This is a great one day project for kids to learn the importance of movement, proportions and motor skills (cutting, gluing) This also is easy enough for a sub plan if you have paper scraps or cut construction paper.

As a class, we looked at the work of Keith Haring

Haring shows movement with his figures while also showing human proportions.

Students stood around the room and paused in a way that would look like they were moving, they looked at each other and came up with a few poses for their Haring style characters to be doing.

Students drew a stick person posing in a way that shows motion, then outlined the body to make them show up better on the construction paper.

Students cut out the figure and glued them down on two separate colors, they tried to choose colors that would make them pop out against the background.

Students added movement lines to make it look like their figure was dancing, running, jumping, and flailing their limbs!

3rd Grade Pastel Colorwheel

Third graders learned how to mix INTERMEDIATE colors this week in art.

Intermediate colors are made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color next to it on the color wheel.  Students used Primaries and Secondaries to draw, label and color the color wheel, they also learned how to blend the oil pastels using their fingers or a paper towel.