Acetate portraits

Project Description: Students will create a self portrait using IMPLIED TEXTURE and COLOR THEORY along with CONTOUR LINES. The painting will consist of two layers, bottom layer will be an acrylic...

Project Description: Students will create a self portrait using IMPLIED TEXTURE and COLOR THEORY along with CONTOUR LINES. The painting will consist of two layers, bottom layer will be an acrylic...

A 5th grade portrait lesson

art with a middle school mentality

Art with Mrs. Seitz: Heather Galler Self-Portraits

Materials: - Acrylic Paint - Paintbrushes - Acetate - Computer & Printer - Student Photographs - Warhol References - Sharpies

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Using 8” by 10” photographs, each student traced a simplified contour drawing of their face. They transferred the drawings onto colored paper and “fractured” them by dividing the picture into smal…

These easy portraits were a great way to wrap up the school year in 2nd grade at Brimfield. I was inspired by the article "Contour Line Portraits; Excited About Artistic Abilities" from the March issue of Arts & Activities of this year. The article is written by Kari Gertz Neal and I loved the polished look of this tracing process that is so simple I feel like I should have thought of it myself! I also found a very similar project over at Dali's Moustache that turned out awesome too. We've…