1st grade Robert Indiana Square 1 Art project

 1st Grade Robert Indiana Square 1 Art 

I found this art lesson on Instagram from scholtenart. He has some great ideas!

I went ahead and copied four boxes on the square 1 art paper for the kiddos. This makes life so much easier! 

On the square 1 art paper that is provided I printed four boxes on the copier. On this paper students used cool colored tempera paint and painted each box. Remind them to not paint over the line where their school and name appears!

On an 8" x 8" square piece of paper students painted the warm colors and then took a paint comb and scraped various lines through out the paint. 

This was day one. 

On the second day, I helped them lay out the stencils for LOVE (except the O) on the 8" x 8" paper. They traced the letters with a black crayon and then cut them out. 

While they were working on this I went around the room and painted their hand for the letter "O" of their art project. Students then glued the letters to their square 1 art paper. Since this is at the beginning of the year some of my kiddos had trouble cutting out the "E" but overall everyone did great!

Pop art numbers kindergarten lesson

Pop Art Numbers kindergarten lesson

My demonstration video.

It's January and my kindergarten students are showing so much growth! Our classroom teachers do such an amazing job. 

With this lesson I showed the students the art of Jasper Johns and Robert Indiana (especially their number art). Students were allowed to pick any number they wanted (0-9) on papers that I had already copied for them on 12" x 9" multi media paper. 

My kiddos were instructed to draw a pattern all over the number and then color it using crayons. We discussed how important it was to use good craftsmanship and to do our best! 

 This took one 50 minute class period. 

 On the next art class, students finished coloring their patterns and then painted the background using either warm or cool liquid watercolors.  

1st grade Robert Indiana Love paintings

Robert Indiana Love Paintings

Here is another idea I found on Pinterest. It wasn't linked to any blog so if you know where the original idea came from send me a message so I can give them credit. 

I started the lesson reviewing warm and cool colors as well as positive and negative spaces in art. 

I provided 12" x 9" multi-media paper with the words "LOVE" already printed on them. 

Students were instructed to draw various lines with black and white oil pastels on the letters. 

Students  painted the positive space (letters) using only the warm colors. We used crayola watercolor paints.

The last step was to paint the negative space with cool colors. 

Aren't they lovely?!