In continuing with our theme of Portraiture, here is my year 9 class’ latest installment. It’s very unlike me, but today, colour was banned!
We started by creating a background on an A3 sheet of white paper, using ripped up newspaper, black paper and empty white space. Faces were then created using black ink, black charcoal, white conte crayons and extra bits of torn up black and white paper.
You can’t really tell from these pictures, but one of the great things about these portraits, was the texture that the newspaper and ripped up paper created!
If you’re going to attempt this activity in your classroom, here’s a tip – rip out all the boring sections of the newspaper first and distribute these to the class. It will save about half an hour of time that the kids will spend READING the newspaper (from 2008 mind you)!
Have a look at the colourful paper portraits we created last lesson too.
They look cool Del 🙂 Our art classes at school were never this interesting
Ah well, I try. It’s really hard to keep this generation of kids enthused! There are so many more entertaining things in this world and so classrooms have had to crank it up..
how do your school years run in australia? Our year nine are 13 turning 14 . Is that the same for you guys ?
I am HOD in art and design in an academy in Ashton under Lyne in Tameside .North West of England . Your work is exciting .
Thanks
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Our year 9s are about 14 years old.. Thanks for saying my work is exciting.. haha.. that newspaper idea I actually thought of in about 1/2 an hour to be honest. Tell me about the work you do…!
I love the newspaper being used as skintone,
I am going to try it myself in the life drawing class I take.