Monday, 12 March 2012

Our Self Portraits

We made self portraits of ourselves to get to know the people in our class better.
Before we could start our portraits, we practised drawing mouths, noses,
eyes and ears. We did this with a buddy.
The first thing we did was draw the round shape for our faces.
Next we drew light lines through our face (guide lines) so we
would know where to put the features of our face.
We added the features onto our faces. We made sure not to forget our hair and shoulders!
Then we used a sharpie to outline our portrait.
Now we were ready to pastel our picture! We used newspaper underneath to keep it smooth, and we made sure that we covered all the sneaky white bits!
Now that our person was finished, we needed to paint a background.
We used colours that stood out against the colour of our shirts. We thought about using hot and cold colours, depending on our tshirt.
We hope you like them!


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16 comments:

  1. Hi Room 18. I love your portraits. You have put a lot of work into them. I like the way you used hot and cold colours. I look forward to hearing about more of your work.

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  2. Your portraits are great! I love the colorful backgrounds you included in the pictures! Awesome!

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  3. Wow Room 18, your portraits look amazing. I love the way you have obviously really thought about where your features go. Your pictures are lovely and bold as well because you have made sure that you covered all the sneaky white bits. I can't wait to see what you create next.

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  4. Great pics room 18!

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  5. Hi Room 18

    Your portraits look great and you explanation of the steps you took to create them show the effort you have put in to get such great results. You must have done some very good observing to get the features correct and the backgrounds really add to your portraits.

    regards
    Mrs S
    a teacher from Tasmania

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  6. Room 18 has many great artists! Thank you all for sharing your portraits and learning journey with us. I like how the portraits are so different from each other. This is a great way to celebrate being individuals. Well done everyone :-)

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  7. Charlotte Brown13 March 2012 at 12:39

    Wow room 18, you are a really good looking class. I love your portraits,they are so colourful.
    (From one of Dianne's students)

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  8. Your portraits look amazing! You all look like you have put in a huge effort.....and they look like you!

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  9. Your portraits look wonderful, I love the colours and all your face details.

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  10. I think your portraits are fantastic! You are a very artistic class.

    I can't wait to see some more of your work. Thanks so much for sharing.

    Jo Derham (Dianne's student)

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  11. Awesome work Room 18. You did a very good job. We can see that there was lots of work in those portraits and there is plenty of detail. Well done! From the Sissons family

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  12. Michelle McCormack14 March 2012 at 20:48

    Oh my gosh Room 18, your potraits are amazing. You have all put a lot of work into them. I am going to show children at a school where I am a student.
    GREAT WORK!!
    Michelle
    (Mrs Forbes ICT student)

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  13. Wow, fantastic art work Room 18. Everyone is a star artist. You showed alot of detail in your portrait. Well Done!
    From the Xu family

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  14. We have done a Lot of detail on our potraits. By Seth...

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  15. What a classroom of fine artist's. Fantastic work! & I got to see it all the way from Melbourne, Australia. Thankyou Ashton :)Well Done

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