Keith Haring

Keith Haring was an American artist. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania by his mother and father. His father was an engeneer and amateur cartoonist.

His work was mainly pop art and graffitti-like drawings. It become popular from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways: chalk outlines of figures, dogs and other stylized images.

Keith Haring's palette

Keith Haring used thick black lines and bright, solid colours in his art. He would add patterns to areas of the art as well as kinetic lines.

Art — Keith Haring on The Keith Haring Foundation. (Fair use)

Task 3. Possitive and negative bodies

Duration:: 50 min
Grouping:: One person

Let's create a possitive-negative artwork in the style of Keith Haring.

Materials:

Four squares of colour paper.
One black sheet of paper.
Pencil, eraser, black marker, scissors and glue.

Process:

Draw four different human figures. Add kinetic lines and a pattern on each square.
Watch out! Every figure must touch one edge of the paper, so you can cut them out easily.
Cut out all of the figures. The squares with the silhouettes are the "negatives" and the figures are the "positives".
Paste the squares in the higher half of the paper and the figures in the lower half (not in the same order).
Take a photo and upload it.

Start drawing a stick figure with head, neck, trunk, arms and hands, legs and feet.
Outline your figure widening and rounding the corners.
Erase your stick figure and outline the person with black marker.

Example