MY FACE

Integrating key competencies in the English class. CFR VIGO. 2010.

MY FACE IN ANDY WARHOL STYLE

TOPIC: Colours and Feelings

Key competencies developed:

Communication ITC Social competency Learning to learn Art and Cultural Acting autonomously

Aims: To understand simple meaning of colours.

To familiarize with famous painters and paints.

To express feelings.

To learn about the expressive qualities of colour To analyze the work of Andy Warhol discussing the colours.

To add colour to a 4 square black and white photo to recreate style

Learning goals: Students will be able to: Draw their self-portraits in AW Style.

Apply the concepts, primary, secondary and complementary colours.

To create images in AW style To know who AW was.

Level: 6th Grade

Cross curricular: Art Social Studies

Skills practised: Recognition key vocabulary in texts Writing key vocabulary Asking questions Project work Looking for information Describing people Expressing feelings Making work for display

New language: Key vocabulary: Pop- Art, portrait, self-portrait, bold, repetition, layers More colours: what is turquoise and shocking pink?

Adjectives related to feelings Comparatives: Warmer, cooler, brighter, darker.

Structures for production: How do you feel?

It makes me feel…

When I’m … colour me…

By Isabel Varela Piñeiro. CEIP Alexandre Bóveda. Redondela.

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Integrating key competencies in the English class. CFR VIGO. 2010.

MY FACE IN ANDY WARHOL STYLE

Language for recycling:

Colour Wheel Primary colours Secondary colours Complementary colours Personal descriptions ITC vocabulary

Resources needed:

Worksheets Internet resources ICT Pop Art Studio Programme Crayons Wax…

Evaluation: Direct observation Participation in the classroom activities Self-evaluation Worksheet

Time distribution: LESSON 1

Key vocabulary presentation.

Watching an Andy Warhol Presentation or You Tube videos of his portraits.

Emphasizing the use of colours. Working on questions like: What colours do you see?

What kind of colours are they?

Do you like this use of colour?

Are the colours bright or dark?

Are they primary, secondary, complementary?

Whole group. 1 hour session

LESSON 2

With a worksheet given by the teacher, looking for information in the net about Pop Art and Andy Warhol Portraits. If the teacher knows how hey can programme a mini quest.

Students have to pick one of the portraits by Warhol to use the same colours when they paint their portraits.

They have to explain why they choose this one--using My favourite colours are, I like this because is brighter, darker, warmer cooler…

Individual, 1 hour session

By Isabel Varela Piñeiro. CEIP Alexandre Bóveda. Redondela.

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Integrating key competencies in the English class. CFR VIGO. 2010.

Time distribution: LESSON 3

After choosing their favourite portrait, students have to describe them to the other students. They have to identify the use of colour and the have to speak in terms of feelings.

We can do this activity written if we have time or as a home work.

Work in pairs and individual, 1 hour session

LESSON 4

Create their own portraits in the way the portrait they choose. Students are supposed to be familiarized with Pop Art Studio Programme or Photoshop.

First they pass their own photos to black and white and then they convert to a 4 portraits with different layers.

We can also print the black and white work and colour it with wax or crayons.

Individual work, 2 hour sessions

LESSON 5

Describing their self-portraits in terms of colours and feelings.

Write a description of their self-portraits.

Whole group and individual, 1 hour session

End product: Andy Warhol Style Self Portraits, Pop Art Portraits Display of the Portraits and the written descriptions

Isabel Varela Piñeiro

By Isabel Varela Piñeiro. CEIP Alexandre Bóveda. Redondela.

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