Submitted by: Speelman,
Melissa - Sycamore Junior High Cincinnati, Ohio
Unit: Portrait - Math Integration - Expressionism - Technology
Lesson: Expressive self portrait paintings
Grade Level: Middle School (suitable for grade five thru twelve)
Lesson plan to come for this unit.....In the mean time....combine the Grid
Lesson and the Digital
Self Portrait Lesson plans. Students enlarged a high contrast digital
photo using the grid technique. Instructions on how to do a high contrast
photo are on the Cut
Paper Lesson Plan. Over lay a six inch photo with a transparent one
inch grid (or draw grid onto photocopy of image). Draw 2" square grid
onto good 12" square drawing paper (or any desired size) - or poster
board - or tag board (Note from Judy: I purchased a flat white poster
board that was real nice for painting). Paint in expressive colors (use
tempera or acrylics -- oil pastels work well, too). Select colors for
emotional impact. Develop some high contrast to enhance mood. Focus down
on an interesting part of photograph as in middle example. Cut a 16"
square mat for each student. Students paint mat to compliment the
portrait. Add collage materials to express "self". Collage
materials can be brought in from home - found in magazines - newspapers -
or the Internet. Discarded puzzle pieces are always good to have around the
art room. So many possibilities. See how nice the display
looks.
This is what Melissa has to say:
"The best part of this project is that the students are so
impressed with themselves. We put up the display
today and quite a few kids just starred at their work and said, 'I
just love it.' That's a huge part of what makes a project successful
to me.
Helpful Links for Portrait Drawing and Proportion
From Sue Galos -This is a good site for anyone teaching portraiture right
from the beginning
www.portrait-artist.org/face/index.html
Arty Factory - the third section is on drawing pencil portraits (good for
younger students)
http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/index.htm
(has tips on proportion).
Here is a handout to give you an idea - You will want to make your own:
http://www.lcusd.net/lchs/adiconti/Proportions%20of%20the%20Fac1.pdf
Sanford can help with how-to's - but again, you will want to do your own
drawings to go with the text:
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/create/tech_proportion.html
Some standard proportions - you'll want to do a drawing:
http://painting.about.com/library/blpaint/blfigureclass2.htm
http://www2.evansville.edu/drawinglab/face.html
Think Quest site (I have this link):
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005470F/technique/index.html
Brenda has two free tutorials in pdf format (intermediate):
http://www.finearteducation.com/
She used to have these free on her site I
see now you have to pay for most of them.
On Drawing the Face - From Marvin Bartel - A Getty TeacherArtExchange
Post:
Give a hungry person a fish and the person eats for a day
begs again tomorrow. Teach the person to fish and the person eats
for life. Learning to formulate is better than following other
peoples formulas. Education is better than training. Teach a
formula for a face and you get one solution. Learn to measure and
to formulate and you can create any and every face. When they
learn to see contour and tone and ways to render it in addition to
skills in measuring proportions they will need no formula to follow.
Learning to draw by learning to see goes beyond knowing
what certain things look like. Learning the specific techniques of
seeing better helps us find out what everything looks like. There
are good methods to teach seeing and drawing without resorting to other
people's formulas. Teach students how to observe/express and
students can draw/express anything - not only those things for which
they have memorized a formula.
This is a list of six eye/brain/hand skills to learn in
order to learn to draw everything. Sighting devices and
aides such as viewfinders, blinders, and sighting with pencil or ruler
can help us learn the first three of these. Assignment limitations
and changing habits of learning can teach the second
three. Most of this list comes from a talk by Betty Edwards.
eye/brain/hand skills
1. edges and contours (including shapes)
2. size relationships and proportions (including
perspective)
3. angles and inclines (including perspective)
4. tone changes (shading) (including form and
perspective)
5. negative space (inclusive vision)
6. pattern, texture, color (the rest of it)
See elaboration and illustrations here.
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