Silk Screen Pop Art Multiples: Andy Warhol Style

1. Silk screen pop art

2. Standards and benchmarks • ART.I.VA.HS.1 Apply materials, techniques, media technology, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks. • ART.I.VA.HS.2 Intentionally use art material and tools effectively to communicate ideas. • ART.I.VA.HS.3 Apply organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.   • ART.I.VA.HS.4 Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit. • ART.II.VA.HS.1 Apply materials, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks.   • ART.II.VA.HS.2 Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems. • ART.II.VA.HS.3 Describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others. • ART.II.VA.HS.4 Apply and adapt subjects, symbols, and creative ideas in artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life. • ART.II.VA.HS.5 Demonstrate an improved ability to integrate structures, characteristics and principles to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art. • ART.III.VA.HS.1 Analyze the effectiveness of selections in communicating ideas and reflect upon the effectiveness of choices. • ART.III.VA.HS.2 Identify intentions of artists, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify analyses of purposes in particular works. • ART.III.VA.HS.3 Describe how expressive features and organizational principles cause responses.   • ART.III.VA.HS.4 Reflect upon the characteristics and assess the merits of one’s personal artwork. • ART.III.VA.HS.5 Reflect and analyze the personal experiences that influence the development of personal artwork. • ART.IV.VA.HS.1 Reflect on how the subjects, ideas, and symbols of artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally with respect to history and culture. • ART.IV.VA.HS.2 Describe the functions and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places. • ART.IV.VA.HS.3 Analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using conclusions to inform personal artwork. • ART.V.VA.HS.3 Compare the materials, technologies, techniques, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creating and types of analysis. • ART.V.VA.HS.4 Compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences.

3. The principle of art • Rhythm- the repetition of an element to give the illusion of movement • There is power in multiples • http://artpropelled.blogspot.com/2009/08/power-of-multiples.html • http://sites.google.com/site/principlesofdesignsite/home/repetition-pattern-

4. Andy warhol and the pop revolution • Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, PA. • Pop Artist • Studio called The Factory • Coined the phrase “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” • Was shot in 1968 over a misplaced script • Died in 1987 after routine gallbladder surgery • Campbell’s Soup Cans • 1962 • Synthetic polymer paint on canvas • 32 canvases of every variety the company offered at the time

5. The process • Choose an image to be replicated at least two times • Create a stencil • Prepare the screen • Position paper/fabric • Ink the screen • Clean the screen http://onegoldenapple.blogspot.com/2009/05/simple-silk-screening-with-kids-or-not.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OCgFA9RJIo

6. Preparing the stencil • Choose a contemporary image that your generation would recognize 50 years from now. • Recreate that image in a graphic sketch. Keep in mind the image will be a flat block of color. It will contain no value. The final product will be a mirror image of your original sketch. • Trace over your sketch with marker. • Cut a sheet of wax paper slightly larger than your screen. It is recommended to add at least a two inch border to the size of the screen. • Place the wax paper shiny side down on a flat surface and center your sketch underneath the wax paper. • Trace the image onto the wax paper. • Using an Exacto knife cut away the portion of the image you wish to be inked.

7. Preparing the screen • Make sure the screen is clean. If there are traces of ink on the screen, use an abrasive cleaner and a stiff bristled brush and gently scrub both sides of the screen. Rinse with water and let dry. • The seems of the top of the screen must be taped. Begin with the sides of the screen and finish by placing a square of tape in each corner. • Place your wax paper on the bottom side of the screen and adhere with tape.

8. Position paper/fabric • Keep in mind you will be printing multiples. • Registration. • Tape down paper. • Wrap fabric around cardboard.

9. Ink • Choose a different color for each individual image. • Mix well.

10. Clean up