Drawing lesson

Pop Art Ice Cream/doughnuts/sweetwrappers

Curriculum Strand: Drawing , Looking and Responding
Objective : look at and talk about his/her work, the work of other children and the work of
artists ( Andy Warhol)
make drawings based on vividly recalled feelings, real and imaginative experiences/ images
Linkage : Paint and colour - use colour expressively to interpret themes based on his/her personal
or imaginative life

Integration possibilities:
English : Pop Art culture – media - advertisments
Maths : shape and space language - patterns
SESE: Art History Pop Art movement and its significance on everyday objects

Developing this activity in class

Materials needed:
Newsprint, 12x18 white drawing paper, 12x18 black construction paper, Tempera paint
(primary colors, neutral colors, silver, gold)/colour pencils/markers, Brushes ,Water
containers, Paper towels, Scissors, Glue

Stimulus:

Discussion:
The students will view and discuss the paintings and sculptures of the Pop
Art movement of the 1960's. They will understand that Pop Art's aim was to break
down the barriers between art and life. Pop Art is a western cultural phenomenon.
It's center was America.

It was born in New York and London, the new art centers of the western world. As a
result, the cultures of the entire world have become Americanized.

The subject matter of Pop Art is made up of ordinary objects from everyday life. The
objects are distorted, enlarged, simplified and colored differently.

Commercial materials and techniques are used to produce the art.

Pop Art mirrored contemporary reality and reflected upon the cultural changes of the
1960's. These changes included: the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,
the idealism of the Kennedy era, the reality of the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in 1963, the outbreak of the Vietnam war in 1964, and the race riots and
drug addiction in the United States.

The class will discuss favorite ice cream treats: sundae, soda, banana split, and
cone. The teacher will remind the class to "think like an artist". The art should be
visually interesting.

Show the children this short video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZTsbJcr9VI

Activity

1. Show the children how to draw overlapping scoops of ice cream and dripping
syrup/ douoghtnuts/close up fonts and designs on sweet wrappers (see
images)
2. Demonstrate mixing tints for the ice cream colors and the cone
color/doughnuts/wrappers.
3. Demonstrate painting sprinkles on the painted and dried ice cream colors.
4. Demonstrate painting accent lines on the painted and dried cone color.

Evaluation / Looking and Responding:

This will be happening as the children work. When they have finished give them time to
discuss their drawings. This could be done with the ‘Artists Chair’, where children take turns
to show and describe their drawings.
ICT possibilities:
Using the Paint programme on the computer, or with photolab/photoshop apps/ applying
different filters and colour resolution to the pictures taken and repeated.
Relevant Artists:
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstien

Relevant websites/books :
http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/pop-art-portraits/pop-art-portrait-lessons.html

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/art/art.htm

http://www.planbee.com/art/447/