Friday, October 5, 2012

Britto Pumpkins

My fifth graders just completed these adorable pumpkins in the style of Romero Britto. I was inspired by this lesson from a pin I saw on Pinterest here. Because Britto is a Miami-based artist, this project hits a LOT of standards for teaching students about local artists!
What is also a fun tidbit of information is that Britto has the first "floating" art gallery...on Royal Caribbean's "Oasis of the Seas"! I love teaching students about Britto because all his work is identifiable to children, colorful, and seeminly simple! Once I show the students his work they usually recognize something.
Students also used their initials somewhere in their work as a graphic element.
These projects are quite large, 18"x18". Size matters ;)

Happy Fall, ya'all!

13 comments:

  1. I am such a sucker for polka-dots. Love the fanciful feeling of these pumpkins!!

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  2. Beautiful - love the analogous color scheme!

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  3. :) love these-- can you give instructions for the art-challenged? it looks like horizontal patterns in the background and patterns on the pumpkin-- what materials did you use?

    :)

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    1. Hi Emily! I had the lids draw with pencil first- big pumpkin, then used rulers to draw horizontal lines in the background. The kids mixed yellow-orange tempera and pained every other segment in the pumpkin and very other line in the background. They then used black to outline (like Britto) and white and black to embellish ;) hope that helped!

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    2. awesome!!! thank you!!!!!! :)

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  4. I love these. We did pumpkins with lines and shapes last year. I am thinking this will be a nice extension, since I looped with half my class.

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  5. I love how you tied in Britto. I have been trying to think of a fun way share his art. Maybe I will use this idea with Xmas trees. Great stuff!

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  6. Love this! Great way to talk about monochromatic paintings! I started following your blog...great ideas!

    Would love it if you checked mine out as well! www.artroom104.blogspot.com

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  7. I love these and had to try them out for myself. They turned out great. Thanks!

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  8. Were you able to do this in a one hour art lesson? Just wondering how much time I should allow for it....Did you have to let the paint dry before adding the initials?

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  9. I referenced this wonderful lesson on my blog :

    http://suffieldart.blogspot.com/2014/11/back-at-it.html

    Thank you for sharing!

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  10. Thank you for sharing!! I love this proyect and I recomended in my Blog.
    http://angelagcabrera.blogspot.com.es/

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