Self Portraits

Miss B showed us this self-portrait of a High School student.  We noticed that the artist only used black and white paint but made shades of grey as well.  She painted on black paper.  All around the self-portrait are words that describe what the artist is like and things she loves to do.  We think she looks like a very interesting person!

This is our artist's model!  We are going to make a similar artwork.

Now it's our turn to make a self-portrait!

Miss B gave us all a black and white photograph of ourselves and we sketched the shapes we saw onto black paper.  Next we painted all around our head with white paint to highlight its shape.  After that we made sure that the whites of our eyes and our teeth were painted white, then we added shades of grey to show our T-shirt, cheeks, nose and mouth.  Lastly we painted the black sections.  When our paintings were dry Miss B gave us a large sheet of white paper and we glued our self-portrait into the centre of the white paper, leaving a wide border right around the painting.  Miss B told us to look at everyone's self portrait and write an adjective that describes that person.  When we went back to look at our pictures later we were suprised to see so many lovely words describing us! 

Miss B hung our self-portraits up in our classroom.  Now our room is getting full of our work!