The 7th grade artists are busy transposing a small comic frame to a large scale enlargement.
Students are using the concept of a grid for measurements and enlargement to scale.
The students are also selecting stencils and are using guidelines to create a large word or type in a speech balloon in the style of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Students are learning about horizonatal and vertical page formats and the use of a layout.
Once the pencil layout has been created student artists have begun their experimentation with a crayon and marker resist method to re-create the look of photo silk screen images which were used by artists such as Andy Warhol.
Sudents are using bright colors and often neon or flourescent colors to reflect the work of Warhol and a fellow artist named Roy Lichtenstein of the Modern period of art.
