Andy Warhol Inspired Animals and Pop Art

Andy Warhol's art was the inspiration for these next two projects. The classes learned about Andy's life and work and looked at many of his pieces. We focused on the pieces that used the same image and repeated it over and over in different colors. One class brainstormed pop images from their lives and came up with many modern subjects including recent technology, popular people and popular foods. After drawing a final copy in sharpie they were copied four times. Eacj copy had to be colored in using a different color scheme. We talked about different ways to group colors including color families, primary, secondary and tertiary and analogous colors. They used one color group for the image and a different one for the background.
Other classes used images of endangered animals for their subject. These classes looked at Andy Warhol's endangered animal prints and brainstormed different endangered animals. They drew a rough draft or the animal of their choice and had to create a background environment as well. Their final drawings were copied four times as well and they used the same color schemes as the other class.
This project was very successful, the students enjoyed learning about Andy Warhol's life and work and really got into coloring each drawing in a different way.

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