Thursday, September 28, 2017

Artist Andy Warhol


This week we learned about artist Andy Warhol who was in the center of the Pop Art craze during the 50's & 60's. 

His work was controversial, since up until this point, art was created with the purpose of capturing people & events of historical or religious significance and this fine art was made to display on a museum wall. Andy Warhol began finding work in everyday things such as Campbells soup can or shoe advertisements and of famous people in pop culture such as Marilyn Monroe & Elvis Presley.

In my art classes we watched a short video on Pop Art and Andy Warhol's influence in this visual art movement, we did a word search puzzle about Andy Warhol and students were given coloring sheets of 4 repetitive images and encouraged to color them Andy Warhol style...in bright opposing colors. They could choose from a paint can, strawberries, hamburgers, flowers, apples, soda cans, converse sneakers or ice cream cones.
Pardon the poor lighting...
I think it's time for some 
new lighting in my hall! 
Some of the students' 
coloring sheets, done 
"Andy Warhol" style

I also gave the Elementary School students the option of having their photograph taken and "Andy Warholized" with the PopArt FX app, that takes a photo and puts an Andy Warhol like colorized filter on them. I printed out copies for all of the students that they could hang up in their room.

B.J.

Braelyn

Chance

Sam & Max

Addy

Ashton

Averi

Carley

Derrick

Gavin

Hadley

Hayden

Isaiah

Josh

Kenzie

Kyle

Landon

Lanie's drawing of Addy

Manuel

Serinity


Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Metal Embossing


Today at the High School we are doing metal embossing and the students all seem to really enjoy this project. First, students were given a sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil and sculpting tools to practice with. They could choose from a variety of design examples that I printed off, or they had the freedom to create their own designs. After they felt comfortable with their design and techniques, they could emboss their design on a 5" x 5" sheet of 38 gauge metal. The sheets had silver on one side or copper on the other and students could choose whichever color they wanted to use! 




Wood Burning Ornaments

I'll have to say, I was super excited to try this little project. I'll also say that I was a little nervous about giving my stud...