Art

On Thursday we started drawing our self portraits.  In previous lessons we practiced drawing our features and putting them in the correct places on our faces.  We now all have a better understanding of the shape of our eyes and the details within them, as well as the fact that our eyes do not go right at the top of our faces.







We looked at different styles of drawing self portraits including portraits by Picasso, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol's pop art style and Henri Matisse.








However, with a huge interest in comic books occurring in class at the moment I thought the students might like to create their self portraits in the style of Roy Lichenstein who uses close ups, and a mixture of block colour and dots for skin tone.








The students were soon very busy drawing their faces, and over the next couple of weeks we'll be painting and "dotting" away to get our self portraits finished and on display in class.