Creating Art Like Roy Lichstenstein

Who is Roy Lichstenstein?

In the 1960's, Lichstenstein, from Manhattan, NY, became a leading figure of the new pop art movement alongside Andy Warhol. Inspired by advertisement's and comic strips, Lichtenstein's bright, graphic images brought out the best of popular culture.

Creating Art Like Lichtenstein

With a little help from our friend, we were able to reproduce drawings following the characteristics of American pop art.
We created backgrounds with bright, attractive colors and designs to give the artwork a "pop".

Once the backgrounds were created we practiced our still life drawing skills to create excused drawings.

Shading was added for a final touch with charcoal pastels and the drawings were pasted on the backgrounds for a completed pop art master piece.

What is Color Value?

Drawing a Still Life

 

 

 

4th Grade students were given a set up in the classroom that they then had to take pictures of with their iPads, in order to use it as a reference throughout the entirety of the project.

 

Their first step was to complete a realistic still life drawing, which we have been practicing for the past couple weeks.

 

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After discussing values, students were given tempura paint assigning one color to each table. They used black and white to create different values.

 

All artists are utilizing skills involving drawing proportionally and paint mixing to create different values.