Project # 9 Pop Art Andy Warhol Style

Display The display reflects characteristics of style used to display Andy Warhol's art. His art is commonly displayed in a grid-type fashion. Bright colors as well as a significant amount of black are commonly used. We grouped the sketches in groups of four to emphasize the theme of one object done in several different color schemes which is another trait displayed in Warhol's art.

Lesson Summary

My partner, Amanda, and I chose to do our lesson in oil pastels partially because we had previous experience with oil pastels when we were children and because we found Andy Warhol's style of art interesting. We found it fairly easy and somewhat relaxing to do our own sketches that we used as models for the class. We felt the lesson went quite smoothly considering we experienced confusion concerning our time allotment. After experimenting on our own, we found that we were able to advise students to do their outlining and name signatures in black shapie as regular markers and crayons would blend too easily with the oil pastels. Another discovery included the fact that the more I "played" with this medium, the more adept at blending I became. It takes a significant amount of time and effort to achieve a higher level of the blending effect. In my opinion, after some practice, third graders would enjoy the high quality of coloreffects characteristic of oil pastels.

This project was designed to have students choose a simple object to sketch. After the sketch is

completed, a student uses oil pastels to add the color to the sketch. Students were encouraged to use color schemes and designs similar to those used by artist Andy Warhol who used everyday objects and images of famous people for his work. Each sketch would feature a color scheme such as warm, cool, monochromatic, analogous, neutral, etc. Oil pastels lend thmselves very easily to blending, the mixing of two colors to create another color or shade of that color. In this project students are encouraged to experiment with blending.

This project could be used as an extension project when studying artists who used blending and/or oil pastels in their work. This project also might work well as an extension project when studying environment, atmosphere, or light in science because it could be used to accurately reflect a sunrise or sunset by using the blending qualities of color pastels.