6th Grade - Romero Britto Projects!

"Darth Vader"
By Romero Britto

6th graders this week are coming close to wrapping up on our Romero Britto Pop Art projects! For this project, we discussed what makes something a part of pop culture and the way it influenced and inspired what we be called 'Pop Art'.  Romero Britto grew up in Brazil in poverty and made art with anything he could get his hands on. It wasn't until he was found by chance and selected as a featured artist on the Absolut companies bottles he was recognized. Today, he is an internationally known artist.

For this project we created our own artworks inspired by Romero Britto's unique style and things from pop culture the students love. We started by discussing pattern, repetition and rhythm in artwork and then brainstormed different patterns. Next, we sketched out our idea and divided up our images into difference sections and spaces. After that we started plugging in different patterns with marker to create our composition.

Here are some pictures of students working on their projects from this week!