The Andy Warhol challenge

Pop art.

Andy Warhols Campbell’s soup can.

Challenge.

Take an everyday product that your family buys and uses and turn it into a work of pop art!


Andy Warhol took an ordinary soup can and turned it into an icon of 20th century art. One of the most famous artistic images ever. Can you do the same thing for a packet of pasta, a bar of soap, a tube of toothpaste?


Choose your product carefully!

The choice of the Campbell’s soup can was not an arbitrary one. It is colorful and lends itself easily to being drawn and painted. Examine the colours and shape of your product and its packaging.

Start with preliminary sketches in your workbook then using those, plan for a large painting of your chosen product or brand.



Take special care in drawing the letters and or numbers. Examine the font.



You should have at least 4 preliminary drawings in pencil.


You may wish to do some large drawings in charcoal before starting the painting. You may also use a mixture of charcoal chalk and paint.

Renaissance Games and information

Follow these links to play some Renaissance games from our ex history teacher Mr Wrights blog and find out more about the Renaissance...

http://ismhistory.awardspace.com/bigrenaissancequiz.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/

Renaissance Book Cover.

You need to start thinking about the front cover of your renaissance book. Try and come up with some ideas about how you are going to decorate it. What kind of lettering? What Colour scheme are you going to use?

Remember the theme is the Renaissance so try and come up with ideas that will be in keeping with that.

Renaissance Fabric book

As part of our Renaissance project students will make and embelish a fabric book. In order to make this students MUST get a piece of fabric which measures 70 x 100 cm.

Students will decorate and embelish the book using work from the various subjects involved in our Renaissance project.

Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance.

This term in grade 8 we will be looking at one of the most important periods in history, not just in terms of art but also with regards to discovery in the sciences and the discovery of a new world!

We will be answering a guiding question based on Leonardo da Vinci, making lots of great art work and a TELEVISION PROGRAM!!

Check out the links on the Renaissance and Leonardo D.V. to find out more.

Homework

For your project on milan and city scapes students need to get postcards and pictures of famous areas of milan.

also you need to take photos of the city and print them out. this is to make a visual resource in your work book.

Landscape/cityscape homework

In your sketch book you need to build up a visual resource based on "Environments".

Collect pictures of which show;
Forests
Deserts
Streets
Cities
Jungles
Rooms
and so on....

cut these out and stick them in your sketch book.