Comic Book Art...cont.

Students in grades 5 & 6 have been diligently working on their Onomatopoeia art for the past two weeks.  First, they had to fill up the entire 9x12 paper with black text from magazine pages.  Then, they were to create a sketch of their word and some action symbols that represent the chosen word.  Next, they drew their design on top of the magazine paper with a sharpie marker and added shadowing around their letters.  Last, I had them use a limited color palette of blue, red, and yellow to reflect Lichtenstein's artwork.  As you can see from the student work below, some students chose to follow those guidelines while others did not.  I didn't take off points for the coloring part of the project because while I suggested the three color scheme, I didn't enforce it as a grade.  It's very difficult to limit creativity to three colors, isn't it? (he he he)

Here are some finished works of art:

Onomatopeoia Art

This is a fun lesson to do with those 6th graders who are just too "cool for school", lol.  I showed the students this You Tube video where Batman & Robin are fighting the bad guys and on the screen are onomatopeoias (the kids LOVED it):

Next, I had my slideshow playing on my new, fancy projector.  I had the definition of onomatopeoia, sample artwork, various words they could choose from, and comic book fonts.  I also had this handout printed out for kids to refer to:

Here are the samples of artwork that I showed the class before we began our artwork:

And, of course, I HAD to share the art of Roy Lichtenstein with this project:

As you can see, these samples are layered with text and color, so for our assignment, students cut out black and white text from magazines and glued them all over their 9x12" paper.  Then, they sketched out which word they wanted to put on their art.  We used scrap paper to sketch out our ideas so they didn't mess-up their 9x12 collage work.  When they were ready with their final idea, they used a sharpie marker to draw their words and details that describe their word on their paper.  We didn't even get to the color part of this project yet today, but they are so excited about this one!  Give it a try!  If you want the slideshow, leave me a comment and I can e-mail it to you :)