Pop Art WIP

This year I have been asked to teacher Art to Year7 and 8.  I like to actually have a go at the wook that the students are asked to do and it enables me to see what pitfalls they may encounter before they reach them.

So I found a sketchbook like theirs and started to produce some of the tasks in advance so that they could get an idea of how to work and create their own interpretation.

I needed to choose an artist from a list of three.
I chose Romero Britto.  I have previous posts on this artist.

Sorry, this picture has been rotated, we also looked at existing bold graphical images including chocolate wrappers.

We also looked at stencilling with acrylics.  I have a picture of this but blogger is being silly with it so I shall leave it out.  Once all of this was done we then designed an image in the style of our chosen artist on to a wooden board using acrylic paints. 

Below is my effort.

Using a sponge I coated the background in turquoise and being acrylic I needed to let it dry overnight.
I then pencilled on my design, keeping to the theme and artist style that I had chosen.

The areas of colour were then added using my research as reference.

Once all of the colour has been added and allowed to fully dry, I used a thick permanent marker to go around the edges and add any detail.

It is now sitting in a stand on a shelf in my classroom.

I really enjoyed this project.  This week we are starting Tribal Identity.  Lots of pattern and lovely research to be done.  More on that another time.

xx