Texture and Patten POPsicles with Andy Warhol

Discussion: 

Pattern

What is it? abababababab

Where do you see it? Clothing, wallpaper, etc.

What do you have to have to make one? Repetition

What is texture? 

How does your hair feel?

How does the bottom of your show feel?

Do they feel the same?

What about tree bark vs. A puppy? 

Art and texture: 

The job of an artist is to create visual texture

A dog might look fluffy and a marble would be shiny and smooth

Discuss Andy Warhol and his use of repetition in his four part celebrity POP art portraits

ARTIST: Andy Warhol

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), 

Born Andrew Warhola 

An American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker 

leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. 

After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, 

Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter

He was also filmmaker, record producer, author, 

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.

 He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." 

The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. 

Died during routine gallbladder surgery in 1987

PROJECT: Create POPsicle Pop Artwork using texture and pattern

Step1: on 12x18 piece of Tag Board or card stock: Draw one line across horizontal center

Draw one line down Vertical center

Step2: (multitude of ways to add color here, we had just studied the color wheel and value)

Paint one primary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries

Paint one secondary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries

Paint one rectangle with any color and white: add texture with POPsicle stick

Paint one rectangle with any color and black: add texture with POPsicle stick

Step3: while that dries: Give students Tag board or card stock cut down to 4x6 pieces

Step4: ask students to create a different pattern on each

Students with use oils pastels for dots or stripes and finish back ground in watercolor

Step5: Cut these small pattern papers into rounded POPsicle shapes

Step6: Glue POPsicle stick to the back of each

Step7: Glue four new POPsicles into each of the large painted rectangles

Materials:

Oil pastels

Tempura paint

Watercolor

Tag board 12x18

Tag board 8x12

Popsicle sticks