1st and 2nd Pop Art- Pet Portraits

For our last project, and Ms. Lee's favorite, we ventured into the realm of Pop Art. As a class, we talked about how Pop can be short for popular. We talked about what pets are the most POPular with people and determined that cats and dogs were the winners! Then, we made a list of popular accessories that would be added to our pets. This would be our first time using PRINTMAKING as a medium. The repetitive nature of printmaking makes it a perfect fit for the style pop art (what is popular must distributed among the masses). We will be distributing our Pop Art Pet portraits to a larger audience when we sell them to raise money for the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center!

3rd, 4th and 5th Cubism- FORMed Instruments

Our Cubism Instruments were inspired by Picasso's guitar collages. For this lesson, we talked about SHAPE, FORM, SPACE, and COLLAGE. We broke down our instruments into basic shapes (geometric/organic) and forms. It was a challenge not to use shading and lines! We discovered that when adding an additional collaged side to our instruments, it created the illusion of depth. Our collages were mounted on physical forms such as rectangular prisms and cubes.