Year 6 portrait art

Fifth Grade Symbolically-Colored Self-Portraits – Art With Ms. Bruce

We often don't know what someone is thinking unless they choose to share it with us. Third graders made their thoughts visible in these ama...

Invitation by Shel Silverstein and 2-1 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo .

Portrait painting using value, shadow and highlights to indicate form and shape. Kids 7-9 Kids 8-12 To begin, we collaged old children's book paper onto sturdy painting paper using gel medium. We then gave it a light wash of white acrylic to push back the text, but still allow it show through the white paint. We drew our portraits following proper face proportions. I did a guided drawing on the white board, showing how the proportions are broken down, with eyes in the middle for the head…

6th Graders did a really nice job on this project. We started off by learning a lot about the artist Roy Lichtenstein. We watched this video and read through this handout. Using iPads and computers students worked on editing their photo to make it in a comic book style. They drew from the image they created. I had to stress to them to draw what they were seeing and not what they thought it should look like. After seeing Lichtenstein's work, students set to work using only primary color…

paulaliz.art on Instagram: My Kindergarten artists finally finished their self-portrait collage paintings! This year we used @crayola colors of the world pencils…

Here is just a small selection of the mixed media self portraits produced by last years Year 7 in the Summer Term. The theme was 'Split Personality' and the pupils produced a portrait consisting of four different mediums (acrylic, pencil, fine-liner and collage). They also wrote in the background of two of the sections. The writing in pencil was that students' dislikes, whilst the writing in fine-liner was their loves. Ginny Lawrence Guy Mitchell India Case Zara Verschoyle

Last week, I was inspired by the great Cassie Stephens yet again! Her 4th graders have been creating some Fauvist style self-portraits, and I thought our 5th graders would be great at it to! Here's the link to her original post on the topic! In the Art Room: 4th Grade Fauves Here's how we made ours. Materials: Sargent chalk Sta-Flo liquid starch Crayola Oil pastels Sax liquid watercolors Day 1: Show them some kid friendly examples of Fauvist art. Then, I demonstrated how to draw an easy…

These self-portrait drawings by 5th graders were on display at the elementary school at the end of the school year, a nice tribute to the 5t...

Students are amazed by African American artist Kehinde Wiley's incredible talent, and they are drawn to his contemporary style. Ins...