Paper Portraits
Paper Portraits
My year 9s and I are looking at Portraiture this semester. I only wanted this little project to go for one lesson and I’ve been blessed with such a great class this semester, so one lesson is amazingly all it took! We used cut out bits of coloured paper, scissors and glue. It’s nothing extremely innovative, but they enjoyed it and I think I’m going to colour copy them and continue using these as a basis for another art piece… We’ll see… Anyone have any ideas of what else we could do with these colourful faces?
If anyone has any fun and innovative portrait lessons, I’d love to hear about them!
These look SO cool
could this be our next art project…?
[...] a look at the colourful paper portraits we created last lesson too. [...]
[...] up photocopies of all the previous portraits they’d created in past lessons, including their coloured paper and newspaper [...]
Hi- Just came across this today! You might like our printed portraits- we used foam plates for an easy way to print the features. (Ages 6-11, after school art program, so your results with older students could be wonderful!)
I was an elementary art teacher for too many years. Now I am an artist and have started my REAL LIFE! I did this one lesson quite often that the kids loved.
You know how you do the watercolor or ink straw blowing where you get these long thin wavy lines of color all over the place? Well, I would tell the children to draw a person’s head very large with no body, with crayon. (Just like a portrait from the front or side). Then they would drop some paint or ink along the edges of the head and blow it in all directions. I called it: “A Bad Hair Day!” The artwork was amazing!!!!!
sounds cool
These are so beautiful! Great project.