Portrait/ Self-portrait
Activity: If a portrait is a picture of someone else, and a self-portrait
is one of ourselves, this activity combines both. Students trace each
other, but then draw themselves: You will need big sheets of butcher paper
and an available mirror for this one. Before starting, have students examine
the differences between Picasso's self-portraits and Durer's,
using the Web sites listed below. How are they different? Is one more
realistic? Is one more fantastic?
- Cut sheets of paper that are large enough to fit students' entire
body.
- Have students pair up and find an area with enough floor space to
accommodate the sheet of paper.
- Lay out the sheet of paper on the floor and have one student trace
the outline of the other's body on the paper.
- Before tracing, students must discuss how students being traced would
like the outline to look: Thick line or thin? In color or black and
white? Close to the body or not? Once these decisions are made, the
tracing can begin.
- Once one student is finished, repeat procedure with the other student.
- Now that students have the outline, ask them to go to the mirror
and look at their own faces. What are the shapes that make up the whole
of their face? What kind of drawing tools should they use to represent
them? How should they reproduce the hair?
- Ask students to draw in their own faces on the paper outline of their
bodies. They can glue other supplies to the paper to help make a more
accurate portrait.
- Once the faces are complete and if they have time, the students can
detail the rest of the portrait - clothes, shoes, etc.
- When complete, hang the portraits all over the room, and have the
students identify who is who from the drawings.
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