Portraits

Check out this awesome art idea!

Once again got this amazing idea from Ms. Lopez in the Art Room.

I love art! I wish I could do art all day everyday. We are currently in the middle of a forensics unit, we have looked at collecting evidence and witness reports. Part of witness reports was being aware of all the different facial features (scars, dimples, widows peak, darwin ears, freckles, eye colour etc...). We brainstormed what all of these were and then the students conducted a witness report on a buddy that they could only look at for two minutes.

I thought a fun way to examine our own facial features would be to draw ourselves, of course I got an almost unanimous groan of 'I can't draw faces, this is going to be so hard' and boy oh boy did they surprise themselves. They turned out amazing, so amazing that lots of other teachers have come into our class to check them out and are in the process of creating their own!

Some students since being finished have critqued their own art and mentioned things they would do differently next time and when they stepped away and saw their finished piece of realized that some of missed key features. I am thinking about having them draw a celebrity or a friend towards the end of term for their portfolios (I will not be ready to part with their art at the end of term, I am just too proud of it).

*Apologies for the glare, they are all laminated very hard to capture