Pop Art Hearts

PreK and Kindergarten learned about the artist Jim Dine last week and this week. We discussed what makes his heart paintings different from other pop art heart paintings and most of the students came to the conclusion that they are messy and have more colors!

Romero Britto

Peter Max

Jim Dine

Each student made their own heart painting in the style of Jim Dine and a hand that symbolized "I love you" in sign language. The first day they decorated a small heart to glue on the palm of their paper hand. I have done this lesson before, but this time I decided to do a big collaborative heart painting to put their hands on. We talked a little about diversity when the students were picking out their skin tones from crayola's multicultural construction paper. They traced their own hands and then cut them out and then glued two fingers down and then attached their heart. The second lesson I created heart stencils for the students to trace and we started off with warm colors inside of their hearts. Kids blotted dashes or dots inside of the heart and then I gave them cool colors for their backgrounds so it wouldn't all turn brown. While they were working on their individual heart paintings, I called them over one at a time to come add their mark to the big heart.

3rd Grade created Pop Art hearts as well but more in the style of Romero Britto. They used a ruler to divide their heart up into sections and then traced their lines with a sharpie. Students had the choice of either drawing pattern or rubbing a texture in each section with crayons. The last step was to paint with water colors!