5th Grade Pop Art Shoe Project

5th grade students viewed the shoe drawings of Andy Warhol, completed earlier in his career as illustrations for advertisements. We discussed how Pop Art developed as a reflection of the culture of mass production in the United States. Pop Art frequently uses repetition of images, bright colors, and everyday images as subject matter.

Students made contour drawings of their own shoes (how VERY exciting to be allowed to take off your shoes in Art class!!). We used textured stamps to create repetition in our backgrounds, painted our shoes with bright colors, and added bold outlines with permanent markers.

Middle School 1pt. Perspective + Trick Photography

While practicing 1-point perspective, we added a twist and turned the project into a quick excursion into the world of trick photography!

We took initial photographs of our feet and printed them in black and white to view the value gradations, then rendered them in graphite on a lower box of our perspective compositions. Some of the final photographs turned out to be quite seamless!

7th-8th Grade Shoe Drawings: Sketchbook Pro on iPad2

Students completed two observational drawings of their shoe: one with pen on paper, and the other using Sketchbook Pro on the iPads. For inspiration with our colors and lines, we looked to Andy Warhol's Endangered Species series!