LGBTQ+ History Month, Valentine’s – Keith Haring Heart Drawings

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To create your own Keith Haring inspired heart design which promotes love, imagination, inclusion, and acceptance.

To begin, students complete a copy of one of Keith Haring’s artworks from the sheet. This helps them to experience the artist’s style, before moving on to their own design for task 2. For task 2, students complete their own heart design in the style of Keith Haring using the examples of the artist’s work as inspiration to come up with their own unique design which promotes love, imagination, inclusion, and acceptance. The students are guided to add colour, using pencil crayons or felt tip pens.

This resource is great for raising awareness of, and celebrating Valentine’s Day, LBGTQ+ History Month, as well of course, the work of Keith Haring himself.

The sheet highlights the key Formal Elements LINE, SHAPE, and PATTERN, whilst students produce their own piece of meaningful Haring inspired art. This activity can be used for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 and is designed to engage students in ‘looking and seeing’ and in consciously using the Formal Elements. Included in the worksheet - Learning Objective, some background information on the artist Keith Haring, task instructions, visual references for both tasks, and also a quote by the artist.

This resource is one PDF file and is suitable for integration within a scheme, one-off lesson, and/or cover a session and takes approximately one to two lessons to complete if being produced to a high standard. I usually print this resource on A3 cartridge paper and my students work directly onto the sheet, but this can be printed A4 also if desired.

I have created many other drawing sheets of varying subject matters. These can be found in my Artyfind shop.