I am so very proud to present the 4th grade portraits for this year. They are mixed media works done using watercolor, crayons, cray pas, and pencils. The began by drawing proportionate faces, then practicing specific features using mirrors. They then brainstormed specific personal characteristics they would like to portrait in their portraits. They then studied color theories and specifically looked at Van Gogh's use of compliments. This is the culmination of weeks of skill building and it shows!
To see in-process images and posts of this project, just click on 4th grade on the search list on your left and you will see a whole gallery of the entire unit.
If your child's portrait is not here they have not yet finished them and need to set up time with me aside from class time to finish it.
Children used mirrors to see where their skin appeared darker and lighter.
Using Cray pas on our hair allowed them to appear textured.
We discovered that our upper lips appear darker than our bottom lips. Why is that you think?
Inspired by Va Gogh's work using strong complements we too used equal amount of complements as a way to draw in the viewer.
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