Christine A. Elmore
Objective: To turn a selected brand-name product or package into a work of art that imitates Warhol's style.
Materials: brand-name food products or the packages themselves, 8 ½ x 11 inch pieces of white paper, black roll paper, pencils, permanent black markers, watercolors and paintbrush.
Procedure:
1. Gather all of the brand-name packages and display them on a table where the students can walk around and identify them and read the labels.
2. Ask students to return to the circle on the carpet and ask: Which products did you recognize and read? Name some of your favorites.
3. Send students, one by one, back to the table to select one item to bring back to his/her desk where he/she is to examine it carefully for a few minutes, looking at the formation of the letters on the label, the logo used (if there is one) and the colors employed.
4. The teacher demonstrates (using a Campbell's Soup can) how to draw the outline large enough to fill the whole white sheet of paper. Students then make their drawings with the teacher circulating to give guidance.
5. The next step involves the teacher demonstrating how to draw in the label and the logo. Following this, she outlines the whole drawing using a permanent black marker. Once again the teacher circulates while students follow these steps.
6. After making three additional photocopies of the original for each child, the teacher will encourage the students to paint their four pictures (each one differently) using watercolor paints and will show the class some of Warhol's works of such repetition.
7. After they dry, these four copies will be displayed together for each student on a black background in one horizontal row.