The next lesson was taught by Ms. Katzenberger and Ms. Mammenga and they taught us about the Andy Warhol pop art using oil crayons. They described to us that when he drew a picture, he would create the same picture with 3 replicas, each in different colors or shades. We started out by choosing an item from the table and were asked to draw a replica of it as close to it as possible. My group chose a flower watering can. When we were finished with drawing the item, we traced them with a black sharpie marker. We then were asked to choose a color scheme that we wanted to work with for our picture. I chose cool colors; purple, darker purple, and blue. We chose 3 colors and started with coloring the object with one color; coloring the outside of the object with a different color; and then coloring the rest of the paper with a different color. We learned how to blend our colors so that they blended together nicely, by pulling the colors with our finger tips. It was pretty cool to see! When we were finished with coloring our pictures, we put a black frame around the picture. We measured an exact inch of frame that would go around the entire picture.
An extension activity that I would do with this for my class is to have them write about the differences they see in each picture, and how each color scheme in the picture makes them feel. Questions that I would use would be; How does the warm color scheme make the picture look and make you feel?, or How does the cool color scheme make you feel?. After they are finished with their pictures, they would be able to look into the picture and pull out what they think of the colors and how the colors make them feel. I know when I saw the water picture painted with warm colors, I thought of it sitting on the table early in the morning with the sun shining in on it. Sometimes, different color schemes can remind you of things that you have seen before in your life.
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