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| By Eloise (Year 2) |
As part of our "Getting to Know You" activities at the start of the new school year, I wanted to create some self-portraits with my new Year 1/2 class. I adapted this lesson from one I saw on one of my favourite art blogs- Mary Making (http://marymaking.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/sandra-silberzweig-inspired-faces.html).
Lesson Materials:
Images of Sandra Silberzweig's portraits
A brief biography of Sandra Silberzweig
A4 sheets of white art paper
Oil pastels
Lead pencils
Newspaper (to keep the tables clean!)
Black backing paper/card
Lesson Steps:
1) We looked at a brief biography of Sandra Silberzweig's art and then looked at lots of her artworks. We discussed her use of line, shape, colour and pattern.
2) The students were given an A4 sheet of art paper and went back to their desks. I then did a step-by-step guided drawing session, demonstrating how they could draw a Silberzweig-style face. We drew two differently positioned faces on either side of our art paper (one portrait facing straight forwards and one leaning to the side). As I modelled for the children, I tried to teach them drawing and spatial reasoning skills, such as asking them how far down the page the side of the face started, how far down the page it went, etc.
3) The students chose their favourite/best drawing from the two we had created.
4) I demonstrated how to press firmly with the oil pastels to achieve thick and vibrant colours. We also looked at colour wheels we had created on the first day of school and talked about how colours can be blended with their adjacent colour on the colour wheel.
5) The students then went back to their desks and coloured their faces. Upon completion, they outlined all shapes and lines in their portrait with black oil pastel.
I am amazed at the quality and talent of these amazing 5, 6 and 7 year olds! Well done, guys!
Year 1/2 Student Artworks:
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| By Serena (Year 1) |
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| By Charlotte (Year 2) |
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| By Ashley (Year 2) |
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| By Dora (Year 2) |
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| By Eve (Year 1) |
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| By Ben (Year 1) |
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| By Marlo (Year 2) |
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| By Gabe (Year 2) |
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| By Kayla (Year 1) |
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| By Sebaga |
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| 1/2B artworks... all beautiful guys, Well done! |
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| More 1/2B artworks... all stunning! |
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| My sample |
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| My guided drawing sample |
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| My guided instruction sample for teaching how to use oil pastels properly and how to blend colours |
Well done Owls! I am so impressed by your gorgeous portraits... who would have thought 5-8 year olds could produce such quality and creativity!
ReplyDeleteThese portraits are absolutely gorgeous!! I would proudly frame any one of them. Kudos to you and your students!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary! :)
DeleteI can easily see that this art project was a huge success!
ReplyDeleteThese budding young artists managed to capture the true essence my images.
Their works are honest and darn good
I just might be out of a job soon :)
Feel free to use any other of my images and keep me in the loop
My best to your students,
Sandra Silberzweig
thanks sandra!
Deletei loved doing this!
ReplyDeletethese are wonderfull and fun to make!:)
ReplyDeletei couldn't agree more.
DeleteI liked doing these and everyone did there best
ReplyDeletewow these were so fun to make thanks for choosing doing these Mrs Baker i love them all!
ReplyDeleteI got just as much joy out of it as you guys did, Sebaga- it was wonderful to see all your gorgeous artworks come to life!
Deletethis was fun because we twisted colours together to make an imaginative portrait.in other
ReplyDeletewords,we had a lot of fun!
thanks for letting us do this art activity mrs baker!
ReplyDeleteThese are stunning! What a great, expressive lesson.
ReplyDeleteThanks Patty! I think it's up there with my all time favourite lessons :)
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