2nd grade action pose paintings in the style of Keith Haring
Click to download this template from TPT This 2nd grade lesson introduces students to the artwork of Keith Haring. He made colorful painting with figures in action poses. I use this artwork to teach very basic figure drawing, complementary colors, primaries and secondary colors, action/ movement, positive/negative space, line pattern, and shape pattern. We begin by drawing poses using the help of a template students cut out and assemble by themselves. This template allows them to play with poses then trace the ones they like. Download the template.
 1. Draw 4 different action poses using the template and ideas from Keith Haring's art |  2. Paint the a primary color in the positive space of figure 1 and negative space figure 4. |
 3. Paint another primary color in the negative space of figure 2 and positive in figure 3. |  4. Paint the complementary secondary color in negative space of fig 1 and positive fig 4. |
 5. Paint the complementary secondary color in positive space of fig 2 and negative fig 3. |  6. Create color balance with line or shape pattern in alternating neg/pos spaces. |
Student Work: see gallery here
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When students finished their paintings, they looked at them through 3-D glasses to see if the complementary colors made the actions poses even more vibrant.
Click to view the gallery of finished art on artsonia
Finished stop motion animations:
2-2 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
2-3 stop motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
MA2 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
The fifth graders from 5-1 used the second graders' step up one day and made this:
5-1 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
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View my elementary school friendly introduction to Keith Haring's art. I added animations from his website and images from his collection.
View it on youtube. |
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Resources:
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View this award winning Fugleflick video, Complementary in Every Way, about how red and green met and fell in love to introduce complementary colors to your elementary students.
View it on vimeo. |
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Can't Mix for Primaries from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. |
View this classic Fugleflick to introduce your students to primary and secondary colors. It is set to "Can't buy me love" and comes with subtitles so you can all sing along.
View it on vimeo. |
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Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. |
View this Fugleflick to introduce your students to the principal of design, Movement.
View it on vimeo. |
Digital Extension: Create it digitally
 Try this lesson on the iPad with Wooden Doll app & SketchbookX. | I wrote up a post already about how you can do this whole lesson on the iPad with the help of Wooden Doll app. See the post and much more here. |
Digital Warm Up Drawing:
 | I decided to do a digital warm up between the drawing stage and the painting stage so students could see the effect of complementary colors next to each other and test to see if their figure drawings were shapes that could be filled with color. Students took a photo of their sketch with their iPad in the camera app. Then then used the DoInk Animation App and opened up a new drawing. In the layer tab at the top they used the camera icon to bring in the sketch. Then they scooted the sketch to the bottom layer and made the drawing layer above it active (turns light blue). They chose a paint brush (size 6) and black color to trace their artwork. When they were finished they either deleted the photo layer or moved the opacity to transparent. Then, they used the pour bucket to fill the positive space with a primary color and the negative space with its complement. |
 Complementary colors: Purple and Yellow |  Complementary colors: Red and Green |  Complementary colors: Orange and Blue |
 Photo of student's sketch |  Import image of sketch into DoInk. Trace and paint over |
When I stacked all the figures with similar colors they created the illusion of movement
Digital Extension: Make and Move
 download template from TpT |  Stop Motion Animation |
Students can use the template over a piece of construction paper and animate the figure against a complementary color background to demonstrate movement dynamically. I use the free app iMotion HD and have student make a short video. 30 images makes a 2 second video at 15 frames per second. I collect the individual videos for one class video.
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