SelfPortrait Project

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Self-Portrait Project

• Plan, Create, Present and Reflect

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Drawing
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Face Card Portrait

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• Picture is YOU but looks like a traditional face
  card.
• Card had to have a point of  symmetry
• Should include pattern.
• Materials Heavy drawing paper or poster board,
  pencils, permanent markers, rulers, temper paint
  or acrylic or markers could be used. 

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Clear Window Portraits

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• Use Photoshop to turn a photo of you into a 4
  color value scale to make drawing easier.
• Trace face on clear plastic with permanent marker
• Color with markers adding details and a
  background.
• Display on window with light showing through

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What's in your head?

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• Think about the parts of your brain and how they
  work.
• Draw images and symbols that show your activities
  and personality based on the Left side
  (logical-mathematical) and the Right side
  (creative) of the brain.

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Scratchboard from digital photograph

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• Dramatic lighting was used to create striking
  photographs of the students.
• Using Photoshop, high contrast images were
  created.
• Students used a variety of textures.

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Painting
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What do I Value?Painting

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• Create a painting using only black, white and
  values of gray.
• Think about the things you value and what is
  important to you. Then create a list to use for
  the painting.

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Glue Relief Self Portraits

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• Students draw self portrait from observation
  using mirrors.
• Plan composition on newsprint paper then transfer
  to black construction paper.
• Outline with white glue - focus on patterns on
  clothing.
• Include a personal symbol that represents self.
• Allow glue to dry.
• Color portrait with oil pastels or soft pastels.

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Profile Portraits

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Poetry Portraits

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Write poetry about yourself and collage the
poetry a hand made book
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Pop Art Lichtenstein style

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• Look at work by Roy Lichtenstein and other Pop
  Artists
• Create a painting or drawing that in comic style
  using the famous DOT technique.

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Face in the Mirror Watercolor

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• Draw the back of your head inside a room
  environment and include a mirror frame.
• Paint with water colors
• Glue in digital picture of yourself looking into
  the mirror.

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Collage
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What is in Your Head? Who am I Collage?

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• Digital or paper collage
• Find images that match your interests.
• Get a photo of yourself in profile.
• Cut out the silhouette in black and fill the ret
  with images.

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Contour drawing and digital collage

• Draw a pencil self-portrait from observation. 
• The drawing will be scanned into the computer and
  in Adobe Photoshop combined with images that
  describe the artist's life.

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Digital Ideas
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About Me PowerPoint

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• Get photos of yourself doing your favorite
  activities.
• Put it in a Power Point with other images, sounds
  and movies that share your likes and dislikes.
• Include a movie clip or audio clip of YOU TALKING
  about yourself.

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Photo story

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Use photostory or windows movie maker to create a
video slide show of pictures from your life.
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3-D Ideas

• Clay and Sculpture

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Pottery Sculpture

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Of yourself or the things you like to do
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Self Portrait Ceramic Plates

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Bobble Head Dolls

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• Get 2 plastic drink bottles The body was a
  bottle. The head was a bottle which I cut about
  an inch from the top.
• Paper Mache both parts
• Draw in pencil on the paper Mache.
• Then color with markers! 

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Personal Identity in a Box

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• Decorate a box with pictures and items that show
  your personality.
• In this case the box IS a person, including arms
  and legs and a brain. The brain shows things the
  student thinks about.

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Pillow Portraits

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• Draw your face with pencil on muslin
• Paint with fabric paint
• sew along the contour shape of their portraits
  and then stuff and sew closed

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Personal Identity Shadow Boxes

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• Decorate a box with pictures that show your
  personality.
• Must include a drawing or picture of you on the
  outside. Appearances and activities.
• On the inside put things that have to do with
  your personality

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Moveable Murals Life size portrait cut-outs

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• Photograph yourself
• Draw it life sized onto cardboard
• Paint or collage