Warhol Flowers

Art Lesson Plan
Grade:1
# of sessions: 3

Art Resources: Flowers by Andy Warhol, Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Mike Venezia, teacher product, and visual aide.

Art Materials: 8”x11” sheets of white paper cut, scrap paper, paint, paintbrushes, water, and flower templates.

Objectives- Student will:
-create a monoprint of flowers.
-use visual characteristics of Pop Art such as popular subject matter, repetition, and bright colors to create his/her monoprint.
-use tempera and watercolor paint and crayons to create his monoprint.
-learn about Andy Warhol’s art, subject matter, and style of art.

Relation to life/Why this is important: Student will understand how Pop Art’s visual characteristics are influenced by the media and pop culture..

Interdisciplinary Connections: Social Studies and Language

Vocabulary: Pop Art, Andy Warhol, transfer, print, and wax resist.

Procedure: Day 1: Teacher will introduce the Flowers by Andy Warhol. Tacher will read pgs. 1-13 in Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Mike Venezia. Student will view the visual aide/teacher product and learn vocabulary terms. Student will discuss what a monoprint is. The teacher will demonstrate how a monoprint is made. Student will trace two flowers on scrap paper. Day 2: Student will review vocabulary and teacher product/visual aide. Teacher will read pgs. 14-32 in Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Mike Venezia. Student will review demo of monoprinting. Student will paint his two traced flowers with tempera paint and press a good sheet of paper onto his painting to create his/her monoprint. Day 3: Student will review vocabulary and teacher product/visual aide. Student will watch a demonstration on how to create a crayon resist grass background for his print. Student will draw grass with crayon and paint over with watercolor paint.

Masterpieces

These are oil pastel paintings created by my 3 art clubs based on famous art works.

Seurat Lesson for 2nd Grade

This is a student's example of a project I did with second grade on Georges Seurat and Pointillism. We read Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists Georges Seurat by Mike Venezia. To remember the name of the style "Pointillism" I asked the students to point their index finger in there air every time we said "Pointillism!" The students filled in abubble map with Georges Seurat's masteripiece Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in the center. In each of the 10 bubbles the student wrote a fact they learned about Seurat and his art. We shared our maps as a class for art history review.

Promoting Your Art Program

I know I have spoken before about promoting my art program with parents, now I am going to discuss my experience with promoting in the community. For a year and a half my students have had their work on permanent display at a local grocery store, this was set up through a parent who works there (see how awesome parents can be!) This year I have done 3 contests. The McCarren airport contest, Housing Divisions "Where I Live Contest," and the Crayola Art of Childhood contest. With the Housing Division's contest one of my students was a runner up and two other students had their artwork displayed at the Venetian. The governor's wife Dawn Gibbons was on hand during the event. My student who was a runner up received a gift certificate for art supplies as did I for my school. I also just wrote my first application for a grant, a small grant, but excellent experience. On Friday I received a check in the mail from City Lights Artists Co-Op. In the future I would like to have local buisnesses and casinos hang our artwork and continue writing for grants. The more you promote your program, the more it benefits.