Join the Happiness Art Movement with our Romero Britto inspired Heart Art with printable Drawing Prompts!
If you’re looking for a fun and easy art project to explore with your kids, with a choice of 4 different heart drawing prompts, this projects ticks both boxes and more.
This is a great art project for kids, which concentrates on pattern creation and high-contrast, energetic and playful colors to create joyful art.
The heart templates allow this art project to be tailored to children of all ages, from preschool through to upper school levels. As a drawing prompt, the aim of each template is to encourage children to explore their own creativity and make the project their own.
Who is Romero Britto?
- Born in 1963, Romero Britto is a Brazilian artist, painter, serigrapher and sculptor.
- From the age of 8, Romero Britto aspired to be an artist and publicly showed off his work for the first time at the age of 14.
- He is known for using lots of different mediums within his art work.
- Examples of his art includes the Mona Cat, Flower Power, Free Heart and Journey.
- Britto’s work is often described as happy and optimistic, and he has said that he wants his art to make people feel good.
Romero Britto’s Art Style:
Romero Britto’s key influences were Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein.
Romero Britto’s art can be described as a fusion between cubism and pop-art. He uses bright colors and high contrast patterns to convey an energetic playfulness within his work.
What makes Romero Britto a Great Famous Artist for Kids to Study:
Romero Britto’s use of bright colors and cartoon like illustrations make him a great study for children. His work is joyful, happy, child-like in appearance; qualities that will resonate with children.
The simple shapes and patterns used by Britto in his art work can be easily replicated by children and anything goes. While inspired by Britto’s work, children can apply his style to their own designs.
Romero Britto Inspired Heart Art with Drawing Prompts:
Materials:
- White Card Stock for Printing
- Pencil
- Brightly Colored Felt Tipped Pens / Marker Pens
- Black Marker Pen
This art project features the use of felt tipped pens and marker pens. Arty Crafty Kids are free to explore this concept with their favorite medium whether that’s acrylic/ watercolor paint or crayons.
Download the Romero Britto Inspired Heart Drawing Prompts:
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Watch the video tutorial to help your Arty Crafty Kids create Britto Inspired Heart Art!
Let’s Make Heart Art!
The Grid Printable Template:
This template can be used in two ways; firstly as a practice sheet to experiment with patterns and colors and secondly, children may design their very own Britto Inspired art, adding hearts or other illustrations that inspire them.
Step 1: Use a pencil to outline hearts and doodles
Romero Britto’s work tends to feature simple patterns and shapes; stripes, dots, lines, squiggles, shapes, flowers etc.
Fill the segments with your own simple pattern/doodle.
As an expansion, draw large hearts across the segments.
Step 2: Color in the segments with felt tip pens or marker pens
Once you’re happy with the pencil lined drawings, begin coloring in the shapes.
Use a selection of brightly colored and vibrant shades; combining closely related colors within a pattern.
Step 3: Get creative with color, Britto style!
Romero Britto often uses analogous colors within his designs, particularly where stripes and dots are featured.
“Analogous” is the term used to describe closely related colors i.e those that are next to each other within the color wheel.
Step 4: Outline the designs with thick black lines
Black border lines are a dominate feature within Britto’s work and are used for definition and to make elements pop.
Once segment parts of the design are colored in, use a thick black marker pen to outline the shapes.
This could be reserved for once the template is colored in or drawn in stages.
Step 5: Use a black marker for doodles
In segments that feature a single block color, try drawing simple doodles on top with a black marker pen.
These lines could be loop-the-loops, arches, straight lines in groups or singular, spots etc.
Take a note of how negative and positive space can be used within the design.
For example, think about how surrounding space around a heart can be used to draw attention to enhance its presence. This could be achieved with contrasting colors – leaving parts of the heart (or surrounding areas) white in amongst bright colors.
The open grid template is a great option for older children; giving them the opportunity to immerse themselves within Britto’s style and create extraordinary pieces of playful art – making the art project entirely their own!
The Printable Heart Grid Template
Romero Britto’s hearts often take an uninformed, unsymmetrical shape that odds a cartoon-like quality to their appearance.
This template is a tribute to Britto’s heart illustrations and has been designed with younger children in mind who can explore color and pattern creation within smaller digestible chunks.
Of course, like all the templates featured within this art project, it can be scaled up or down – it depends entirely on the desired learning outcomes and ages of your Arty Crafty Kids.
The Simple Large Heart Template
This template features a large heart with spacious segments, both inside the heart and out. It’s a great template to use with very young children.
The Hearts within a Heart Template
The hearts within a heart template is perfect for older children who are looking for a challenge. While the segments are prepared, children will need to think about how they use colors and patterns to make each heart pop.
I hope your Arty Crafty Kids have a wonderful time using our diverse collection of drawing prompts to create their very own Britto Inspired works of heart art!
As always, we love to Arty Crafty Kids’ creativity in action and if you happen to share their completed makes on social media, please do give us a tag or/and use the #artycraftykids – happy crafting!
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We love creating famous artist inspired art projects for kids and have a growing library of ideas for you to try with your Arty Crafty Kids from Picasso’s Faces to Monet’s Water Lillies and a finger-painted Starry Night!
Suitable for children of all ages, these projects have well received by students from all over the world; creating some incredible works of art and impressive looking displays!
