Jasper Johns Name Art 

Lesson Summary: 

For this lesson we learned about the Artist Jasper John and patterns. We also reviewed the color wheel and talked about secondary and primary colors. We then created a pattern on a large piece of construction paper using already cut out squares. ( This resembled a checker board.) After we glued down the squares to the construction paper in a pattern form we had to write a form of our name on the paper. We had to create another pattern with our name. Writing the letters of our name in order, writing our last name, or writing our initials. All the squares on the paper need to filled and the letters of our names needed to create some sort of pattern. We wrote our names using oil pastels. We then used water colors to color the white squares to make the oil pastels resist. We were required to use one primary color and one secondary color on our project. 

Extension Activity: 

To add to this lesson I would create the pattern on the paper using the already cut out squares. Instead of writing our names on the squares the students would create math patterns on the paper. The students will be given math problems and they will have to solve them on the paper. This will incorporate more math into the lesson and the students will also be able to draw the numbers and use watercolors to paint it.