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

Value Trees with Eric Carle

Discussion: Value: 

Hold up different colors of green and ask what color it is

how can six colors of green all be green???

Value we have talked about adding white to colors

what did it do? makes them lighter

What happens if we added black to colors?

it would make them darker

Blue becomes navy

  green becomes olive

Artist: Eric Carle

1929-

American illustrator

Famous illustrating over 70 children’s books including Brown Bear

Uses Collage to create his artwork

His art work is created in the collage technique

He uses hand painted papers

He cuts and layers each piece of collage to create bright cheerful images

Went to art school in Germany

worked as a graphic artist for the NY Times

Bring an Eric Carle book to share with the class

PROJECT: Create a tree using values of green and triangles

Step 1: On Blue Paper, paste on a tree trunk in brown rectangle

Step2: on the truck paste a green triangle

Step3: on top of the triangle paste another value of green triangle

Step4: repeat until you have five triangles on to of one another creating a tree

Step5: Using two small yellow triangles add a star on top of your tree

Step6: using stripes of cut words from magazines paste three on top of each other 

creating a snow flake

Step7: repeat until you have three snow flakes on your page

Step8: fill in more snowflakes with white oil pastels 

Step9: if time allows teh students could add a 3 to 5 ornaments to the tree using

buttons or sequins or more collage materials

MATERIALS: 

values of greens pre-cut into triangles

magazines, scrap paper

Two pre-cut yellow triangles

Glue

words from magazines cut into stripes for snowflakes

white oil pastels

Brown or olive tree trunks

ADAPTIONS: could create christmas trees with ornaments and presents

For older groups of children you could create a two week project and have them cut, create and prepare all the values of green for the project.