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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Grade 8 monochromatic cropped self portraits

First grade 8 project of the year that I hung-up and almost forgot about. When parents came to open house guess who forgot to walk them out to see their daughter and sons self-portraits. Here on some quick tips on how to confuse a middle school student.
1. Take a photo of only a part of their face
2. Ask them to draw it. 
The initial protest when the kids saw their photo was that they felt incomplete. They were convinced that the paintings would not look like them when completed whereas I think they capture the true essence of what they look like. A nice touch was to fuse the portraits together. After all for better or worse this class is like glue. 

Koki demonstrates scale