Wowing Me With Warhol, Part 2

Hi Art Spotters!

It was an exciting day in my 5th grade classes at Grand View Elementary.  Today some students finished their Andy Warhol Pop Art Animal paintings!

In my Part 1 post, I showed you a few of the outstanding animal drawings that students had completed.  Once each student was done with one drawing, we made 3 other copies to end up with a total of 4 identical animal drawings.  (Depending on when students completed this step I either copied them on the school copier, or they traced them by hand.)

Once students had all 4 completed drawings....it was time to start painting!  We used 4 color schemes for our paintings: Primary, Secondary, and 2 different Analogous Color Schemes.

The amazing thing is that students made all of their colors by mixing different combinations of the Primary Colors!  They only had Red, Blue, and Yellow paints. All other colors were hand-mixed by students! Talk about impressive!

Primary colors: Red, Blue, and Yellow

Primary color Scheme

Secondary colors: Orange, Purple, and Green

Secondary Color Scheme

The last two drawings were painted using Analogous color schemes.  Analogous colors are those that are NEXT to each other on the color wheel.  Here's a color wheel so you can see the options that students had to paint their Analogous color schemes with.  They had to pick 3 colors that were next to each other.

Color Wheel

Students had many choices for their Analogous color schemes.  Here are the two that I chose for my examples:

Analogous color scheme #1: Blue, Blue-Green, and Green

Analogous Color Scheme

Analogous color scheme #2: Red, Red-Violet, and Violet

Analogous Color Scheme

Once students finished all 4 of their paintings, the final step was to go back over their line with Sharpie Marker (making sure to wait until their paint was COMPLETELY DRY before doing this!)

Then students mounted their paintings onto 12" x 12" black paper in the arrangement of their choice.  Here are some of the amazing results!  

Warhol Pop Art Animals

Warhol Pop Art Animals

Warhol Pop Art Animals

Warhol Pop Art Animals

I am so impressed with all of my 5th grader's Pop Art Animals!! The rest of my classes will be finishing up this project next week.  

Thanks for checking in at The Art Spot.  See you soon!

-Miss O'Donnell