4th Grade Roy Lichtenstein self portraits

 4th Grade Roy Lichtenstein Self Portraits

I found inspiration for this lesson from Sara Gutkind. I just changed it a bit to fit the needs of my classroom. There are tons of videos for kids on Roy Lichtenstein on YouTube. I used the one on Safe Tv for this lesson. 

Students used a 12" x 9" piece of multimedia paper and drew a self portrait. Remind them to sketch lightly!! 

My 4th graders could use a stencil with circles to add the dots or draw them free hand themselves with markers. The last steps were to trace them with a black marker and color the background with crayons. They did such an amazing job!! 

Roy Lichtenstein kindergarten art lesson

Roy Lichtenstein Kindergarten art lesson

I  found this idea from http://paintbrushrocket.blogspot.com/search/label/Kindergarten

I just changed it a bit to fit the needs of my students. 

This idea comes from Roy Lichenstein's sunset art. 

I provided each student a printed 12" x 18" copy of a sunset in the style of Roy Lichenstein's art. 

I'm so blessed to have a great copier that I can copy all of them onto!

We noticed that he used mostly primary colors so I played the primary color song by Sesame Street. You can find it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu44JRTIxSQ

They love this song!

I provided a paper plate with yellow paint for the students to paint some of the rays and the sun part. 

On another paper plate I provided red and blue for students to paint lines onto  a couple of the rays. 

Students then could take  daubers filled with watery tempera paint and make dots on some of the rays. 

The last step was to take a dauber filled with black ink and outline the lines. Remind students not to squeeze the bottles or it will make a big blob! 

I always provide the steps on the board. 

They turned out so nice and I'm amazed how well they did using the black ink!