4th grade square 1 art pop art hearts

 4th grade square 1 art

I found this lesson on the Jamestown elementary blog. I'm not sure what they were teaching but I decided to tie it into Pop art. Andy Warhol has some great art featuring hearts and he even has a painting of an actual heart. Students are learning about the real heart in their classroom so I was so excited to find Andy Warhol's print of a human heart. Don't worry his heart doesn't look gross! It is very simplified. 

I thought I would have the students draw their own squares on the Square 1 Art paper but it was easy for me just to copy them on the copy machine. 

I provided students with a small piece of paper and reviewed with them on how to make a heart by folding their paper in half. I'm amazed with how many couldn't remember or didn't know how to make one! Students then traced their heart in each square of their paper. 

The next step was to draw various patterns in each section. I provided examples to give them inspiration but I encouraged them to come up with their own!  

Students could draw with their sharpies or draw with a pencil first and then trace them. My 4th graders then colored them with crayons and painted over them with liquid watercolors. They are beautiful! 

Andy Warhol complementary colored hand prints

Andy Warhol complementary colors
  1st grade

I found this idea from http://aschukei.blogspot.com/2014/04/kindergarten-andy-warhol-pop-art-hands.html. I did change it a bit to fit the needs of my first graders. 

Children love pop art. I introduced the children to Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, coke cans and his celebrity paintings. Of course many of them didn't know who Marilyn Monroe was but they recognized the soup and coke cans. I also have some children's books about Andy Warhol available for the kids to look at in my art library in the classroom. When students are finished with their art projects they can visit my art library. 

We discussed complementary colors and I found a couple of videos on YouTube for the kids to watch (they were only a couple of minutes). 

After our discussion we folded our paper into six sections. Students then traced their hand with a pencil in each box. 

 Students then began to paint the primary and secondary colors (I used tempera paint) around their hands. This took part of the lesson was fifty minutes.

 On Day two, students painted the inside of their hands with its complementary color. 

I think the parents will love this project. Anything with  a hand print is always a hit. 

kindergarten art lesson Andy Warhol

Kindergarten art lesson Andy Warhol

                                  In this demonstration video the children are actually using paint sticks. I made the video during COVID and I was teaching on a cart. The kindergarten classrooms don't have sinks so this was a great alternative. 

This is a popular lesson that has been repeated several times on the internet. I'm not sure where the original idea came from. 

I had the children watch the video "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists, Andy Warhol". 

I also have several books for children on Andy Warhol. 

. The print below is from the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. This is the print for our inspiration

http://www.warhol.org/uploadedImages/Warhol_Site/Warhol/Content/Warhol_Artwork/1998.1.24.jpg

After the video I had the children paint green grass on a 12" x 9" piece of black construction paper. Some students used paint brushes and others wanted to use q-tips. 

The following art class I provided various colors of 4" x 6" pieces of construction paper. They were allowed to pick four pieces of any color. 

The children folded the papers in half and made flowers. 

After they assembled their flowers

on their grass they took q-tips and painted little black dots for the middle of the flowers (pistil and stamen).