ULP - Silkscreen - Planning Your Print – Collage Sketches - Lesson 4

Creative Thinking & Making

Collecting

Collaborating

Silkscreen Printing

Historical & Cultural Contexts

Critical Thinking

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Total time: 3-4 class periods

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Learning Objectives and Cognitive Skills:

• Students identify, describe, and discuss key aspects of Andy Warhol's life and art.
• Students identify and discuss the design elements, color and shape.
• Students apply their knowledge of shape and color theory to create a work of art.
• Students apply stencil and photographic silkscreen processes to create a work of art.

PA State Standards:

Arts & Humanities:

9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition

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Lesson 4: Planning Your Print – Collage Sketches
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Materials:

Student sketchbooks and selection of colored pencils or pastels
Colored paper
Scissors
Students’ Film Positive transparencies
Glue

Procedure:

Have students choose 3 combinations of 4 colors. They can make sketches of their combinations in their sketchbook.

Demonstrate printing from light to dark. Discuss with your students the importance of planning their color combinations before they start to print. Students should “build” their prints from light to dark, printing the lightest colors first, then ending with the darkest colors. All ink colors have different levels of opacity. When a light color is printed over a dark color, the two mix and the result is a variant of the intended color.

Have students select colors and fill in a table like the one below. They should use colored collage paper to make a to-scale version of their print and overlay the Film Positive transparency to check the design. The transparency can be taped down to the page to preserve accuracy.

Remove the Film Positive transparency and glue the final collage. This is the students guide for cutting their stencils.