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Creating Realistic Faces

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explain that, in order to create realistic faces, artists study live models, use mathematics to explain correct proportion, and practice by making sketches. They create a self-portrait using these principles.
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Creating a digital Self-Portrait

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use a digital camera and take photographs of each other wearing a "costume" of their choice in front of a blue screen. They work cooperatively to complete the photographs by placing it into a background and setting...
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Self-portrait In a Masterpiece: Computer Illustrations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a self-portrait using an artistic masterpiece as a guide. In this art appreciation lesson, students research famous artists online, electronically saving a particular portrait or masterpiece made by the artist. Students...
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Self Portrait using watch parts and tin - Mixed media

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create whimsical self portraits using watch parts and tin - recycling. They demonstrate safety in using tools. They use a variety of materials to create a work of art , and demonstrate understanding of the elements and...
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Artistic Differences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create self-portraits as an ice breaker at the beginning of the year.  In this self portrait instructional activity students use generic child shaped outlines.  Students include information about themselves in their outline such...
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Digital Image Linoleum Printing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss different types of portrait photography and the various reasons for having a portrait. They change an image into a high contrast image using Adobe Photo Deluxe then transfer their image onto a linoleum block to create a...
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Self-portraits: Integrating Arts And the Language Arts

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students look into a mirror and draw their own self-portraits. Then they write a descriptive essay, describing the portrait and the features of their face.
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"Where's Waldo" About Me Drawing - Self "Portrait"

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students identify the cultural clues found within art forms by producing a work of art based on their personal experiences and create a work of art about themself. They recognize how technical elements affect art and how to implement...
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Picture This: Telling Our Tales with Self-Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students view a number of self portraits to determine the importance of pose, setting, clothing, and props in a piece of artwork. They design a self-portrait emphasizing the use of contour lines.
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Self Portrait Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students review multiple ideas for creating a self portrait including abstract versions, PowerPoint presentations, sculptures, ceramic plates, photography and shadow boxes. They create self portraits.
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Self-Portraits

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice the techniques of color, face proportion, emotion through color, and how to integrate handheld applications in Art projects in this Art lesson for the 8th grade classroom. Self-Portraits are used and emphasized in...
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Self-Portraits

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils use a software drawing program to produce self portraits. They draw using the available tools and matching their features such as eye color and shape. They print the portraits for a classroom display.
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Self-Portraits

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create their own self-portraits. Using pieces of broken glass, they draw their portrait in the same shape of the piece of glass they were given. They incorporate their features and show their self-interests. They present...
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Technology - Self-portrait -Design - Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare and contrast styles of portraits thru time and gain appreciation for the work of John Singer Sargent. They also demonstrate craftsmanship in cutting and gluing portrait.
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Ceramic Relief Portrait

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use draped slab and slab method to create a relief sculpture, adding coil and slab decoration. They study facial features and form them in clay. They study symbolism in Renaissance relief terra cottas.
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Digital Self Portraits

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students use digital cameras and computers to create their own self-portrait. After taking their picture, they download the image and use brush and shape tools, colors and the elements of design to create a distorted portrait of...
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Portraits in Clay: Elementary Sculpture Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
It is lovely how this lesson incorporates the importance or personal expression and art history. Children create low-fire ceramic heads that express emotion or personal feelings. The entire process is laid out step-by-step. All you need...
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About Faces and Fractions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review concepts of fractions, and one-half. They discuss self portraits and the relationships of eyes, nose and mouth to the whole face. Students create base-line self-portraits. On the second day, 3rd graders observe and...
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Chatty Cherry Stories

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young artists will respond to reading children's literature, by engaging in original storytelling and representing their own images through the visual arts. Then they orally describe details of people, places, and things in their stories...
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What is Important to You?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the life of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist known for her self-portraits. After discussing her works and life as an artist, students use mirrors to examine their faces and begin drawing their own self-portraits.
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All Kinds of People - Myself

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete activities to study artists and self-portraits. In this self-portraits lesson, students make a collection of photographs of themselves from their lives and draw self-portraits using a mirror. Students draw portraits of...
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Käthe Kollwitz: Never Again War!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the artistic works of Holocaust escapee Käthe Kollowitz. In this Holocaust art instructional activity, students examine the self-portraits that Kollowitz created and discuss the message in her woodcut images. Students...
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Who Am I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the question "who am I?" They create an original self-portrait of themselves that incorporates written words. Students' self-portraits depict who they are.
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Historical Witness: Social Messaging

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a self portrait using symbols that represent them. In this self portrait lesson plan, students look at a nineteenth century painting and discuss the symbols that represent this era. They then recreate a dance in the...

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