Pop Art Hands with Andy Warhol

TWO WEEK PROJECT:

First week practice drawing the hand in Blind Contour:

DISCUSSION: 

Contour line: what is it? 

Blind Contour drawings? What does blind contour mean?

Rules of Blind Contour: 

Do not look at your paper

Start at the top of the object

Follow the object with your eyes and move your hand as your eye moves

Do not pick up your pencil for the duration of the drawing time

If you finish go over the shape again until time runs out

PROJECT: 

Practice Using charcoal sticks draw your hand with blind contour 

Step 1: place your non drawing hand on the table in a fun position using a portion of it to hold your paper down

Step 2: start at the top portion of the hand and begin to move your eye around your hand

Step 3: using charcoal let your drawing hand move along the paper without looking at the results until the end

MATERIALS: Charcoal sticks

Paper 

Stop watch

WEEK TWO: 

DISCUSSION: Color DRAW A COLOR WHEEL ON THE BOARD

Analogous Colors: colors next to each other on the color wheel

Monochromatic: one color: page 60: What do you think of this art work?

Complementary: opposite on the color wheel: 

Neutral: All grey tones: page 72: what do you think of the art B ? 

Do you see texture?

Do you see the dewdrop?

What makes it look wet?

Andy Warhol: 1928-1987: POP ART

American born in PA

Love to paint popular culture of the moment

Painted Campbell’s soup cans

Painted the famous

Social commentary about excess

Worked in a studio called The Factory.

PROJECT: 

Step 1: pick four of your charcoal hand drawings

Step 2: finish one in charcoal creating your neutral ¼

Step 3: with pastels finish one in complementary colors

Step 4: finish the next in analogous colors

Step 5 finish the last in monochromatic color scheme

MATERIALS: 

Pastels

Charcoal

Hand drawings and hairspray

Andy Warhol Repetition POP Ornament Trees

Discussion: Repetition: 

 What does it mean to repeat something?

where do we see that in art?

ABABABABA....? B Pattern

Shapes? What shapes have we talked about?

sqaures, triangles, circles,


Show the Tiffany Holiday book or print photos of a piece of are Warhol did for tiffany's that had repetition. 


What shapes do you see?
Count How many there are?
How many different  shapes are there?
What do the shapes make when he puts them all together
What do the shapes have on them: pattern

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 a repetition Christmas tree using circles

Step 1: On White paper draw two spirals at the bottom

Step2: On top of the spirals draw three circles

Step3: on top of the Circles draw two more circles

Step4:On top of those two circles draw one more circle

Step5: On top of that circle draw three lines across one another to make a star in black

Step6: Fill in each circle like an ornament with lines or dots or color it in in all colors

Step7: add any other details all around

Step8: Paint the whole page with yellow watercolor

MATERIALS: 

Oil Pastels

Card stock in white

Yellow or Gold watercolor

Symbols with Robert Indiana

Second-Fifth Grade

DISCUSSION: symbols: what are they?
Where do we see symbols everyday?
Restrooms
Hwys
Road signs
What does a heart symbolise? Light bulb?
Why do we use symbols?
Can letters become symbols?
What artist gave us that idea?

Show Robert Indiana's Artwork Love
What do you notice about the sculpture?
Does it make a word?
What could the O be saying?
Is the O a symbol of something bigger?

ARTIST: Robert Indiana
1928-
American Artist
Associated with POP art
born in New Castle, Indiana.
His family relocated to Indianapolis
He moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement
using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism,
He gradually moved toward what Indiana calls "sculptural poems"
Indiana's iconic work LOVE was first created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964
New Hope sculpture designed in 2008 for the democratic campaign

PROJECT: Using four letter word create a sculptural poem on paper
Step1: choose a word could be the same as Indiana Love, hope,
Step2: Use a pencil to create block letters and construct your word sculpture
(REMEMBER INDIANA FLIPPED HIS O TO MAKE HIS STATEMENT)
Step3: decide how you might fill in your letters INDIANA USED FOUR COLORS
Step4: begin to fill in including the background

MATERIALS: tag board
Markers
Oil pastels
Pencils

Jim Dine WATERCOLOR Hearts

Kindergarten and First Grade

DISCUSSION: WATERCOLOR Techniques
Watercolors come in liquid form and cake form:
This is probably what you are used to using at home
The small ovals of Colors are called cakes
Professional watercolor artists use tubes of watercolors that they
place in a covered palette. They dry up and can be wet again and again
We are using liquid watercolors today
The come in bottles and they are very thin like water but
the colors are very vibrant
There are several important watercolor techniques and tricks that artists use.
Wet on dry watercolors means to have wet watercolors and paint onto dry
paper. This technique is easy to control the paint only goes where
you paint it.
Wet on Wet: is to paint wet watercolors on wet paper
This is less controlled and more dramatic
Wash: this is one color of watercolors applied in the wet on wet technique

ARTIST:
Jim Dine
born June 16, 1935
American pop artist.
He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University
He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings.
Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world.
In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.
This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America
Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

for more information about Jim Dine please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine

PROJECT: Create Dine like hearts in both types of watercolors
Step1: Draw a heart
Step2: outline the heart in black oil pastels or Sharpie
Step3: using clear water wet the INSIDE of the heart
Step4: using all colors of liquid water colors fill in your hearts like Jim Dine
Step5: using wet on dry technique paint the background of your heart using one color you have not yet used
Step6: turn in your piece and clean your space

MATERIALS:
Liquid watercolors in all colors
Brushes
Water
Large watercolor paper
Oil Pastels or Sharpies

PROJECT ADDITIONS/ALTERNATIVES:

You could incorporate warm and cool color discussion into this project by having the heart

be in warm or cool and the background be the opposite

You could incorporate Symmetry into this project by cutting symmetrical hearts to watercolor and pasting them into a washed background.