Class Self Portraits

We finished our self-portraits today.  Every other year, I have used water color to do self-portraits. This year, we used colored pencils....so much better:-) 
First we watched a youtube video....because my kids listen better when someone else says it:-)

We drew with pencil and then traced with sharpie (on top of an art folder of course) Art folders are brilliant....simply a file folder.  Anytime we do art we put it under our work....keeps glue, marker, oil pastel off of the table tops.  And sometimes, if we aren't to the messy part of art, it helps keep all our materials together.

Ready to color with colored pencil.

Next we chose ONE color and color the background.  Use the same color, but press harder and add a line/shape pattern to the background.

During the summer, I read an amazing blog post about making frames.  So I pulled that up again and had my chickadees cut the inside of the frame out and edge the border.  (I traced the lines for where they would cut the middle out.)  You must check out and follow Create Share Teach. Her classes portraits look great also.  Then yesterday Cara posted about her self-portraits and I loved the little addition of white to the frame, so my chickadees could choose to put some white around their frame.

 Finally, we glued the frame to our portrait.  So fun!

All done.  Tomorrow, we are going to add adjectives that describe us to each of the sides.

Love the missing tooth!

Now off to Junior High group!
Happy Wednesday,