Man, do I have a lot of talent in my fifth and sixth grade classrooms! I have to say, it was incredibly difficult to narrow down to a reasonable amount of pictures to post on the blog. They all did such a wonderful job and I am very proud of their hard work on this first art project.
I try to do at least one self portrait, or portrait of some kind, a semester with every grade so that they can slowly progress at drawing people and also progress in their just general confidence in drawing people. I have found that the older they get the more they hate drawing themselves.. and I would like to try to fix that. For this self portrait project we studied the surrealist artists, specifically Rene Magritte. We noticed that Magritte used a lot of clouds, birds, and apples, and that often he would place an object in front of a person's face. We drew our self portraits in oil pastels and then added a dream like and weird background to match the surrealists. We then drew and cut out objects to place in front of our faces like Magritte.
I try to do at least one self portrait, or portrait of some kind, a semester with every grade so that they can slowly progress at drawing people and also progress in their just general confidence in drawing people. I have found that the older they get the more they hate drawing themselves.. and I would like to try to fix that. For this self portrait project we studied the surrealist artists, specifically Rene Magritte. We noticed that Magritte used a lot of clouds, birds, and apples, and that often he would place an object in front of a person's face. We drew our self portraits in oil pastels and then added a dream like and weird background to match the surrealists. We then drew and cut out objects to place in front of our faces like Magritte.