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