Ben-Day Dot Pop Art Bottles

Ben-Day Dot Pop Art Bottles

Junior High 

The idea for the lesson came from Ms. Bryans' blog "Art Teacher Diaries". I thoroughly enjoyed creating my own example.

This lesson connects the pop culture today (a major part/influence on students lives) to the ideas of the Pop Art movement, like Ben-Day dots, and its a few of its artists, like Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, and Raucshenberg.  It also allows the students to practice their skills and knowledge of colors (primary and secondary) and value (by shading using hatching and cross-hatching).

Step 1.  Allow students to pick out a pop or juice bottle to draw while handing out Ben-Day dot worksheet.

Step 2.  Fold the Ben-Day dot worksheet in half to draw only half of the bottle. (This will help the students get the symmetry right.)

Step 3.  Add the details to the bottle. (Lego, ounces, design, etc.)

Step 4.  With the pencil, give the bottle value and shading by using hatching and cross-hatching shading techniques.

Step 5.  Before the students been coloring, they will need to refer to the color wheel to figure out what complimentary color they should use for the background. (Note: Whatever color takes e up a majority of the bottle, use its complimentary color for the background. Example: If my bottle is mostly green, I should use green’s complimentary color red.)

Step 6.  Lightly color in the colors of the bottle with colored pencils. (REMINDER: One of the colored sections on their paper needs to be colored by using two primary colored pencils to create the needed secondary color.)

Step 7. Using markers, color the dots. (Note: Students need to match the marker color to the color the section already is.  The section where two primary colored pencils were use, they students can just use the one secondary colored marker instead of using two primary colors markers. (Examples: If I used yellow and blue colored pencils to make a section green, I can just color in the dots with a green marker.)

Step 8. Outline the bottle and its details with a fine-point Sharpie.

Step 9. With the Sharpie, go over the hatching and cross-hatching lines used to give the bottle value and shading.

Step 10. With a glue stick (bottled glue might make the marker run), paste the worksheet on a piece of colored construction paper (students can choose the color). 

View my lesson plan with link below:

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