K/1 Giraffe Portraits

As the K/1 students ended their self-portraits and began a unit on Africa, giraffe portraits seemed to be the next logical step. They drew tall vertical head and neck giraffe pictures, colored them with oil pastels, painted a background with tempera paint and mounted them on black paper stamped with a white African looking patterned frame. Lots of steps to an eye-catching result.

A tall giraffe

Blue sky behind

Stamping a border

A Finished painting

Middle School Self-Portraits

The annual Parker self-portrait project has begun for the middle school students. The students watched a video on how different expressions change the features of a face and then reviewed rule of thumb methods for placement and proportion for achieving their likeness. They worked from mirrors, thinking about the shape of their face and trying to accurately locate and capture their features. They tried to put all these elements together to create an image that is recognizable as them.

Preliminary sketch

Transferring sketch to final paper using the light box

Features emerging

Small adjustments

Does it look like me?