Keystone School Second Grade Art Projects

Robert Indiana's FOUR Letter Word Project

Robert Indiana is an artist. He's a printmaker. He's a painter. He's a sculptor. He's a visionary. Robert Indiana wrote a poem about love as a child and turned that into a calling.  He wanted to spread "Love" and "Hope" throughout the world and found a way to do it.  The Keystone Second Graders create four equal sized squares, draw each letter and then give each letter a shadow (making it 3D).  They decorate each letter as they wish.

Robert Indiana's Love Sculpture

Examples of Robert Indiana's Sculptures

Examples of good "Four Letter Words"

Examples of Good "Four Letter" Words​

Grade Level - Second Grade
Duration - 1/2 Class Periods
​Media Type - Mixed Media (Drawing/Watercolor Painting)

Curriculum Integration
​Subject Integration: History
Content Standards:
VA.Cr1.1.1a - Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
​VA.Cr1.2.1a - Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.
​VA.Cr2r.1.1a  Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design
​VA.Cr.2.2.1a - Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.
​VA: Cr2.3.1a - Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures or other visual means.
VA: Cr3.1.1a - Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.
​VA:Re7.1.1a - Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one's self and others.
VA:Re7.2.1a - Compare images that represent the same subject
​VA:re8.1.1a - Interpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the characteristics of form.
​VA:Re9.1.1a - Classify artwork based on different reasons for preferences.
​VA:Pr4.1.1a - Explain why some objects, artifacts and artwork are valued over others.
​VA:Pr5.1.1a - Ask and answer questions such as where, when, why and how artwork should be prepared for presentation or preservations.
​VA: Pr6.1.1a - Identify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.
​VA:Cn10.1.1a - Identify times, places and reasons by which students make art outside of school.
​VA: Cn11.1.1a Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

OBJECTIVE/ASSESSMENT
​OBJECTIVE:
​Students will:
​- learn about Pop Art - Robert Indiana
​- learn about Art Vocabulary - Pop Art, 2D/3D, Shadows, Typography, depth
​- continue to practice using a ruler and drawing horizontal and vertical lines.
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RUBRICS:
​Students will be graded by completion.
​MATERIALS & PROCEDURES
12' x 18" Water Color paper
Ruler
Pencil
​Pink Eraser
​Oil Pastels if desired
Sharpie Markers
Water Color Paint
Water Cans
​Paint brush 
PROCEDURES:
​​Teacher lead discussion about Robert Indiana.
​Man wrote a poem at a young age about spreading love and hope throughout the world.
​Did it his way by painting, drawing and sculpting his Love Sculpture.
Students learn to use a ruler.
​Students create four 6" squares on a piece of water color paper.
​They draw a letter of a four letter word in each square.
​Students are told to imagine a force field around each letter and draw it (bubble letters)
​Students making it fancy by adding hard edges and ornate details to each letter.
​Students draw pick a side to add a shadow and draw horizontal lines to that in the appropriate place
​Students outline with black sharpie.
​Students paint using water colors

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