Some lessons from last year

I just happened to find some lessons plans from last year. Had saved them on my USB and forgotten about them..( that seems to happening alarmingly often these days!!)

Chuck Close inspired portraits done by my year 2 classes - We looked at the shapes and colours used by Chuck Close and discussed warm and cool colours. I took photographs of the home room teachers, enlarged them to A1 size and cut them into 4 cm squares. Students were , then, instructed to colour in the background  in cool colours and the faces in warm colour - leaving out the eyes and the mouth. These turned out so well that we decided to present it to the teachers as a Christmas present from the students. I swore the kids to secrecy and was very impressed that they could actually keep one! the teachers, needless to say, were thrilled to receive their portraits.

Chuck Close - esque self Portraits

Lesson Objective:

To create an expressive abstract composition based on real life subjects.

 To develop an appreciation of the artwork created by Chuck Close.

 To create a system of repeated patterns

 This project introduced Year 4 students to the works of Chuck Close to give them a spring board for experimentation with colour and portraiture.

We started by shooting large head shots of students. The photos were changed into sketches on www.dumpr.net and then printed in b/w out on plain paper.
 Each student traced their face print with a fine line black marker before drawing a Grid on it.

 To color, the students had to think of their portraits as two sections: the face, the hair, the clothes as one and the background as the other. Starting with the background, they chose cool colours to work with. The rest was completed in warm colours.