Grade: 5.5Print: WHAAM!, 1963, Acrylic paint and oil paint on canvas.Original Size: 170 cm × 400 cm (67 in × 160 in)Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997)Materials:

PRINT OUT THE TEMPLATE OF EMPTY DOTS FOR STUDENTS TO MAKE THEIR POP ART SELF PORTRAIT ON! GO TO THIS LINK FOR THE TEMPLATE:

http://artprojectsforkids.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ Lichtenstein-Dots-small.pdf

Colored pencils Mirrors for self portraits

Biography: Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. He created art that documented and parodied old-fashioned comic strips. His style was influenced by the advertising popular during his era. He is well known for his use of grids, dots, black outlines, and bright colors. He claimed that Pop Art was “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting.”

WHAAM! is one of his most famous works. It is a reworking of a portion of comic strip originally published in a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War. WHAAM! is a diptych, an artwork made up of two canvases or panels viewed side-by-side.

Suggested Presentation + Questions to ask the children:

Focus on the comic strip feel of his works. Show various portraits and highlight his use of dots.Discuss primary colors Why did Lichtenstein make his choices? Why primary colors? Why dots?

Related Art Project:

By using a pre-printed paper full of empty dots, you can make your own portrait – complete with graphic marker shading.

1. Downloadthe pdf template of empty dots.

Start by lightly sketching your face with a pencil. Remember, the eyes go in the middle of the head, not up near the top!

Step 1:Draw a shape similar to that of an upside down egg to the size you would like the face to be.

Step 2:Add some basic guidelines. Divide shape in half lengthwise. Draw a line across the shape almost halfway down at right angles to the first guideline.

The line across the page is eye level.

Try to make these lines soft so they can be erased later.

Step 3:Some more guidelines are useful in order to position the facial features.

Two more lines lengthwise which section the shape into four and some crosswise lines beneath the eye level line, sectioning this part into five.

Step 4:Begin to mark where the features are to fit.

The pupils sit above the eye level line.

The bottom of the nose is positioned two lines under the eye level line and the mouth is on the line beneath the nose.

Note the hairline above the top of the head.

2. Trace all the face lines with a black Sharpie marker. ERASE straight horizontal and vertical guide lines.3. Fill in the dots with PRIMARY colored pencils – BLUE, YELLOW OR RED. This may take some time, but neatly colored dots will make a successful picture. Also add some light background shading of each color.4. Using the Sharpie marker again, add some thick lines wherever you think shadows may happen, as shown by image on the right. Be sure to leave some of the lines thin so you have variety.

Additional resources: http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/2012/08/roy-lichtenstein-was-prominent-american.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaam ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diptych

Vocabulary: Pop Art