From now on, I'll connect the doys my own way

This is always a fun project. We talked about the artist Roy Lichtenstein and his contribution to Pop Art. We looked at the paintings he did based on panels from old romance and war comics, and talked about taking images out of the context of "low" or "commercial" art and remaking them as as "high" or "fine" art.


Since I'm a huge geek, I have a bunch of old comic books laying around. The kids picked one panel out of a comic and drew it on a large piece of paper. When they colored it, they colored some parts solid, and colored in other areas with big dots, which was supposed to be an exaggeration of the old comic printing process.

They turned out really good. I just realized that all of the pictures I chose to put up are close-ups of faces. It wasn't intentional, but I think, for some reason, that image translates really well for this project. These were created by Hannah, Isaac, Evan, Yady, and Asong. (Click on the title to read some information about Roy Lichtenstein.)