Many of my students dread the self portrait. I find that the older they get the more fear and loathing I see when I mention "self portrait." Not to fear! I was finishing up with last semester's 6th grade students and tried this neat twist on the self portrait from Dali's Moustache that uses clear acetate sheets (overhead projector film)--we had a surplus of them in the classroom, but I've also used sheet protectors (but those are more costly).
The students were pretty happy with the results, although some of them took a couple tries to get the hang of the
drawing/tracing technique. We used watercolor paper and
watercolors for our backgrounds.
I also saw
this other version that uses
collage for the background and I'm going to try that next time. Thanks, Janet Taylor for the awesome idea--I love collage!
ENJOY!!
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| And the bulletin board display of some of the completed self-portraits. |
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