Add a little POP to your Valentine!

Jim Dine - POP ART STUDY

1st Grade

Kinder

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2nd Grade

This weeks focus was POP art!  What better way to celebrate a season of love than a movement that celebrates every day awesomeness!               Pop art  is all about art from every day objects. The students learned about famous Pop Artist, Jim Dine and his series of hearts.  My East Mesa students worked with paint this week also!  I bet you heard about that!  They had so much fun!  My K-2 kids masked off their own hearts with painters tape to discover negative and positive space.  They painted them with red, white and black paint while exploring texture and using several different tools to get all sorts of neat designs!  The 3-6th grades created backgrounds for their Pop art using crumpled paper.  What a great texture!  They then used oil crayons to create Pop Hearts Jim Dine would have been proud of!  I was so excited about these that I cleared the walls of the art room and I have them displayed around the perimeter of the room!  If you are on campus this week, please stop in and check them out!  

Grade 2

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Grade 5

At Maricopa LEA this week we also took a good look at Pop Art!  In the K-2 classes the students created their hearts out of primary color oil crayons.  They created texture and got to cut and glue!  That is always a hit!!!  My students 3-5 also took a close look at Jim Dine and his series of hearts.  They created 4 hearts using what they learned about color (primary, secondary, tints, shades, complementary) to make their own pop art series!  We mounted everything to black paper in the end to create a really neat clean look!  I handed these all back at the end of the week in hopes that maybe a few Mom's and Dad's would get Pop Art Valentines!  My 6th grade class this week focused on fonts and the history of typesetting.  They learned all about typesetting and how font design has changed literacy and art dramatically.  Each student is now using what they have learned and designing their own font that we will hopefully use through out the course of the rest of the year!

What's Next?!  Salvador Dali and Surrealism!  We are going to be making some Surreal Mustache Portraits and some pretty TALL circus animals!  Check back soon to get a look!