Kandinsky's Concentric Circles

Second grade had a blast experimenting with color mixing and concentric circles.

Kinder Characters

We took a creative approach to Kinders Self-Portraits. We created character collages of ourselves. We used fun things like button eyes and string for hair, and wallpaper scraps for clothing. We added a letter block print with our initials and used printing rollers for our background. Very creative!

Underwater Self-Portraits

I have been loving the ideas Im getting from my blog roll, it is better than any lesson book I have ever seen! I loooove this lesson I found at the Crafty Crow from Use Your Colored Pencils, it was so much fun for our 1st grade classes! We started with a sharpie drawing of ourselves underwater, we discussed the feeling of floating in the water, we added goggles, snorkes and bathing suits. We then colored our selves with oil pastels. THEN CAME THE TRUE FUN... we sent our portrait swimming a blue tub of "ocean" water...AND THEN THE FUN CONTINUED... when we crinckled up our art work to give a textured look of waves. We then topped this project off with using some bottle caps to make bubbles floating out of our snorkles.

Mono-tone Self portraits

Got this idea for our 4th grade self portraits from artprojectsforkids.org. Our students used graph paper to create a comic book character representation of themselves. They were very interested in using various tones of one color through shading. They also designed a mono-tone background to present their portrait on.

Sillhouette Collage

This was 2nd grades project for self=portraits. We learned what makes a silhouett. We then filled our paper with objects that represented us and used tempra paint to color. After this we cut them out glued on complimenting construction paper and embelished with block printing of our name.

Proportion Self-Portraits

This is 3rd grade's project for the self-portrait unit. We discussed symmetry and the make-up of our facial features. We watched a video on how to make "cheating" marks to correct common proportion mistakes. Once sketches were complete we used markers to brighten up our images. And yes, the first picture was reallly done by a third grade artist, who can already out draw her art teacher :)

Portraits and Porportion

This lesson is one I do with 3rd grade. We learn all about portraits vs. self-portraits. We have a class disscussion about why artists create self-portraits and how it is a reflection of their inner slef. We study somewhat famous self-portraits and reflect on what we learn about the artist from each one. They I teach about porportion and how if affects our portraits. Now it's time to create. The students sketch out thier individual self-portraits, adding features and details like jewelry, hats and we design our shirts for the picture. Next, we create a border so that the focus of the picture is on the portrait. Lastly we add 3-5 objects in the background that tell something about ourselves, and of course we color it with markers. I was very impressed with how unique each of the portraits were.