Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Texture and Patten POPsicles with Andy Warhol




Discussion: 
Pattern
What is it? abababababab
Where do you see it? Clothing, wallpaper, etc.
What do you have to have to make one? Repetition
What is texture? 
How does your hair feel?
How does the bottom of your show feel?
Do they feel the same?
What about tree bark vs. A puppy? 
Art and texture: 
The job of an artist is to create visual texture
A dog might look fluffy and a marble would be shiny and smooth
Discuss Andy Warhol and his use of repetition in his four part celebrity POP art portraits
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 POPsicle Pop Artwork using texture and pattern
Step1: on 12x18 piece of Tag Board or card stock: Draw one line across horizontal center
Draw one line down Vertical center
Step2: (multitude of ways to add color here, we had just studied the color wheel and value)
Paint one primary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries
Paint one secondary Rectangle: add texture with POPsicle stick before it dries
Paint one rectangle with any color and white: add texture with POPsicle stick
Paint one rectangle with any color and black: add texture with POPsicle stick
Step3: while that dries: Give students Tag board or card stock cut down to 4x6 pieces
Step4: ask students to create a different pattern on each
Students with use oils pastels for dots or stripes and finish back ground in watercolor
Step5: Cut these small pattern papers into rounded POPsicle shapes
Step6: Glue POPsicle stick to the back of each
Step7: Glue four new POPsicles into each of the large painted rectangles
Materials:
Oil pastels
Tempura paint
Watercolor
Tag board 12x18
Tag board 8x12
Popsicle sticks




Texture Printmaking with Wayne Thiebaud




Discussion: 
What is texture? 
How does your hair feel?
How does the bottom of your show feel?
Do they feel the same?
What about tree bark vs. A puppy? 
Art and texture: 
The job of an artist is to create visual texture
A dog might look fluffy and a marble would be shiny and smooth
Printmaking: do you print things at home? 
How do you print them?
How do we print in art: smash pictures or folding pictures in half
There are many techniques in art for printmaking
Mono-print: creating one print from an original piece of art
Look at Wayne Thiebaud’s Gum ball machine painting and discuss how he might have drawn it. 
ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud 
(born November 15, 1920) 
He is an American painter 
His most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toys and lipsticks
He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture,
although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. 
Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects
well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.
Project: Create mono-print gum ball machine from sand paper
Step1: on your 4x6 piece of sand paper: with a black oil pastel, draw a large circle on the top half
Step2: Draw a square underneath your circle
Step3: add a half circle on top of your first circle
Step4: add a small circle inside your square
Step5: color in your square and small half circle with the same color
Step6: color in your small circle black to show where the gum balls come out
Step7: fill your machine with different colored gum balls
Step8: once complete, adult uses an iron to melt picture onto your tag board paper
Note: These come out like a print, they might not be exact. 
MATERIALS: 
Oil pastels
Sand paper (light)
Iron
Heavy card stock or tag board paper





I loved the addition of the 25 cents but you might warn young students that it will print backwards.