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Andy Warhol used the soup can as inspiration for his art. In the same way, students will use common objects from popular culture to transform their portrait into a billboard that expresses their personality.

To prepare for the activity, students consider items from their favorite music, movies, cartoons, sports, hobbies, fashion, and games that they could use in artwork. Next, they search the Internet and save images of these pop culture items.

Pop art is created using a digital photo of the student. Use the step by step photo editing instructions to teach your students to select a section of the picture, such as a hat or hair, and paste one of the saved pop culture images into the selection. By adjusting the transparency, a unique effect is created. The result is a picture with the entire body shape filled in with items that have personal meaning.

The final piece of art is inspired by the work of Robert Indiana and Jasper Johns, American artists who used letters and numbers as their subject matter. Students again view samples of this style, provided with the project resources, before they complete their own creative work.

Follow the digital art lesson plans to teach students how to use the PhotoFiltre tools to make a one of a kind painting with the letters in their names. Effects such as color, shadow, outline, fill patterns, stencil, rotation, and masks allow students to apply an unlimited variety of sensational transformations to the letters.

For years, our team has been in search of photo editing software appropriate for children. We have been lucky to find an excellent program called PhotoFiltre V6. This software is FREE for educators. To download the program visit the PhotoFiltre Website. You will be impressed with the quality of the software!