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Grades 6-8: Lesson Plan Showcasing Pop Art

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The pop art style is easy to teach and create. Teachers can teach about Andy Warhol’s pop art, other famous pop artists and pop art in

today’s culture.

Materials Required:

• Various brands of pop cans.
• Cartridge drawing paper.
• 4B pencils.
• Acrylic paints.

Step 1 - Preparing the Students

Bring in various artists’ examples of pop art to introduce this style to students. Picture, slides, books or other visual aids are helpful to

teach the lesson. Here is an example of pop art on thumbdrives .

Check out Shepard Fairey’s famous Obama pop art poster .

Andy Warhol’s pop art painting of Campbell’s tomato soup can painted in red and green is another good example.

Show how artists often used large paintings or drawings of mass produced products in unusual ways. For example, large, inedible sculptures of popsicles in brown fur show how this art form depicts popular yet unexpected colors or textures.

Pop Art Images on Shoes

Step 2 – Sketch the Pop Can

Using 12 x 18 inch drawing paper, sketch the pop can from a view showing the top of the can. Teach students how to draw both a curved top and bottom to make it look three dimensional. Since it will be a painting, only sketch detail that can be painted in. Try to make the main letters as close to the original as possible.

Step 3 - Painting

Use bright acrylic paints to paint the can. Try to use unexpected colors such as blue on a coke can, and green on a pepsi can. If the colors are green, yellow or orange for citrus drinks, try to pick complementary colors such as purple and blue instead. Have the students mix together blues and yellows to create different colors of green. Add black for darker shades and white for lighter shades of the colors.

Paint the letters in first, then paint in the backgrounds. Try to paint the brush strokes around the can to help make it look round. Try to paint in white spots where light hits the can.

Pop Can Pop Art

Step 4 – Displaying the Art

Remember to display the student work together in a showcase to make the art pop out. Use a background color such as yellow to make the bright colors stand out. Try to have different types of pop displayed together. Display them side by side just as Coke cans would be displayed on store shelves. This adds to the idea of mass marketing pop culture which artists were fascinated with at the time. The title of the display could be “Pop Art, Pop Cans, Pop Culture”.

Hints and Tips

Use many different brands of pop so that students can compare the ways marketers try to make their brand stand out. Allow students to choose the brand they would like to try to sketch. Challenge better artists to draw more difficult designs.

Use pop cans of the exact same brand such as coke and have all students use different colors on their painting. Or use one brand such as coke and show all the different kinds of coke such as diet coke, coke zero, etc.

Use only two complementary colors for all of the paintings. For example, use yellow and purple for all parts of the pop can so that students must choose how to make it stand out. Display them all together for a really eye-catching display.

Use the lesson to teach about complementary colors, tints and shades. Have students mix their own colors to create the various greens, purples, or orange colors needed.

Use the lesson to discuss influences on art such as popular culture, nature or the imagination.

Use the lesson to show other areas where pop art is used such as: designs for clothing and shoes, designs on thumbnail memory sticks, campaign icons, posters, and billboard advertising. This video on Obama and pop culture by the artist Shepard Fairey could be used to teach about the influences of art and popular culture together.

Use the lesson to teach students the benefits of recycling. Ask them how the pop cans could be reused in a new way, or recycled. Demonstrate can and bottle recycling when doing this project by recycling bottles and cans in the classroom and school daily.

Final Results

This easy pop art painting project is fun for students to do. They will recognize how popular culture influences clothing choice, advertising and art itself. They will see how pop art can make an ordinary pop can into a beautiful art form. The many bright colors and repetition of images in a pop art gallery will emphasize how pop art was a reaction to mass production in Andy Warhol’s time. They will learn about current and iconic pop artists.

To learn more about how to make relief prints using the pop art genre of art, teachers can try this lesson plan on pop art .

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Middle School students will love this pop art lesson that focuses on the principle of movement. It also makes a great abstract portrait that is frame-able! This project covers Common Core Standards for Science for grades 8 which can be found at the end of the lesson.

Grade Levels

6th, 7th and 8th Grades, the examples in this lesson are from an 8th grade class.

In this Pop Art Movement Lesson, students will use an image of themselves, replicate it and layer it to create the illusion of movement.

2-3 – 60 min lessons

• 9×12 Watercolor paper – Canson (100510941) XL Series Watercolor Pad, 9″ x 12″, Fold-Over Cover, 30 Sheets
• Brushes – Acrylic Paint Brush Set, 1 Packs / 10 pcs Nylon Hair Brushes for All Purpose Oil Watercolor Painting Artist Professional Kits
• Or this mini version for homeschooling – Sargent Art 22-6210 10-Count 4-Ounce Watercolor Magic
• Kleenex for blotting paint
• Black Construction Paper – SunWorks Heavyweight Construction Paper, 9 x 12 Inches, Black, 100 Sheets
• Assorted Construction Paper – Pacon Tru-Ray Construction Paper, 9″ x 12″, 10 Classic Colors, 50 Sheets (P103031)
• White crayons or oil pastels
• Glue Stick – Elmer’s Glue Stick (E4062) (7 sticks)

Inspiration/Artist

Andy Warhol

Marcel Duchamp

I was inspired to make this lesson when I saw this idea: Click Here

Instruction with Questions

Photograph each student in a unique pose.  This girl is a dancer and asked if she could leap.  AMEN!  Make sure all hands and feet are showing in your photograph.  Print these photos out to a 5×7 size.

Students watch videos about Andy Warhol and the Pop Art, Art Movement.

Youtube: What is Pop Art? | Tate Kids:  Click Here

Youtube: The Case For Andy Warhol | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios: Click Here

(If you only have time for one, this is my favorite) Youtube: Pop Art Lesson for Kids and Teens: Click Here

Have a class discussion about what they saw and learned from the videos.  What struck you while you watched these?  What stood out?

Show them a photo of Duchamp’s painting, “Nude Descending the Staircase”

Here is a great Youtube video of this painting by Nowness. I love the idea of mindfulness that is connected to watching this video.

Next show them Warhol’s print of “Eight Elvises”.  As they look at each image ask them to share anything that they see in the image.  (Notice, for instance, that the image is not evenly spaced out.) Why is this effective?  Is the whole image even fully repeated?  Note that there is only “part of a few” Elvises and staircase dudes.

Ask them to name what they see in common in the photographs.

I have coloring sheets, like this one, for them to color while students do the next step.  These are great for reinforcing the idea of repetition.

This website has several PDFs to choose from Click Here

Students watercolor various papers with liquid watercolor.  Have each student paint one piece of paper each.  This will allow you to have at least  2 reds 2 yellows etc.  These will be the papers we cut images out from, for our collage.

Students cut out their image from a photo.  Depending on your students, cut out the photo prior to class.  🙂

Students trace their image onto the watercolor paper.  NOTE:  Have them trace right around the image onto the colored paper OR tell them to face the photo and the paper upside down.  I like this option best.  This first example shows it facing up.  The challenge here is you may get pencil marks on the photo AND the pencil marks may show after they cut out the shape.

Using the approach shown below will not show pencil marks either way.  Win!

Students repeat this process several times (minimum 4 times) on different colored papers.  Next, have students glue all of the images to a black piece of paper.  Each image should layer in an interesting format.  Encourage students to play with them, and not just settle on a straight across approach.

Use a larger sheet of colored construction paper and glue the black paper to it to really help it pop!  Some students used a rainbow for their color flow, some used primary colors, some used analogous colors (colors next to each other on the color wheel), and others allowed their colors to be random.

Use white crayons (or oil pastels) as an option to add texture and interest in their artwork.  This was up to their discretion and creative design.

Here are some finished Pop Art Movement Lesson pieces!

Common Core Standards

8th grade – science.

Focus on Physical Sciences – Forces

2. Unbalanced forces cause changes in velocity.

a. Students know a force has both direction and magnitude.

b. Students know when an object is subject to two or more forces at once, the result is the cumulative effect of all the forces.

c. Students know when the forces on an object are balanced, the motion of the object does not change.

d. Students know how to identify separately the two or more forces that are acting on a single static object, including.

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Keith Haring Drawings

This pop art project is designed to help young artists draw in the simple style that Keith Haring developed as a pop artist of the 1980’s. He was famous for a style of bold figures with bright colors, and radiating lines coming from them. This tutorial will show students how to create their own version of one of his famous paintings. It depicts two figures sharing a hug. Growing up, Keith Haring wasn’t interested in the kind of formal art he saw in museums, he thought it was too boring. He was more interested in cartoons, like the kind that Disney created. He spent hours drawing them with his dad, who also drew as a hobby.

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