Curated OER
What is Important to You?
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.
Curated OER
All Kinds of People - Myself
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...
Curated OER
Käthe Kollwitz: Never Again War!
Learners explore the artistic works of Holocaust escapee Käthe Kollowitz. In this Holocaust art lesson, students examine the self-portraits that Kollowitz created and discuss the message in her woodcut images. Learners design their own...
Curated OER
Portraiture
Students compare portraits focusing on the artists' choices in medium, composition, and meaning. In this portrait analysis lesson, students analyze the art pieces for their medium, composition, and meaning. Students create a...
Curated OER
Who Am I?
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.
Curated OER
Historical Witness: Social Messaging
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...
Curated OER
Exhibiting Art
Learners create a brochure for an art gallery combining research and images pertaining to known art works such as Van Gogh - Self Portrait and art pieces of the students. Learners use their own artwork and download images from the and...
Curated OER
When I Grow Up - All By Myself
Students listen to the book, All By Myself, then write sentences describing themselves now and when they are grown up. They create self-portraits of their current selves and what they be like in the future.
Curated OER
Beyond the Soup Can, Thermal Screen Printing for Classrooms
Fifth graders study self-portraits done by Andy Warhol and other artists. They define Pop Art, printmaking vocabulary, and create a series of screen prints using the art principle of repetition.
Curated OER
Descriptive Prompt
Young scholars create a detailed self portrait, and then write about their appearance.
Curated OER
You Flattened Me
Students listen to a read aloud of Flat Stanley. They draw flat self-portraits, e-mail themselves, along with a letter to a buddy.
Curated OER
The Artist at Work
Students analyze art pieces of Picasso and Diego Velazquez to consider artists self-portraits using their work tools. In this art analysis instructional activity, students complete introductory and image based discuss to consider how an...
Curated OER
Cut-Out Figures
Young scholars trace and color their figures, cut them out, and put them up on the wall much like a Keith Haring painting looks. In this self portrait lesson plan, students then try to match the figures to each of their classmates.
Curated OER
Looking at Portraits: Looking at One's Self
Learners examine Charles-Antoine Coypel's Self-Portrait and explain what he shows in this work.
Curated OER
Relationships, Day 1: Self-Esteem
Pupils explore self-esteem and create a self-portrait collage. They discuss things they like about themselves, things they are able to do on their own, and reasons people appreciate them. They demonstrate how to give and receive...
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Explore Elizabeth I
Keen observation skills are an essential trait for good artists. Discuss the elements of a portrait with your class using terminology such as, full-face, profile, quarter-length, full-length. After that, they can use the included...
National Gallery of Canada
Me or You in the 30's?
Take on portrait painting and tertiary colors with a plan focused on recreating a photograph. After viewing several pieces of artwork, class members follow the instructions included here to create portraits or self-portraits in a...
Sargent Art
Facial Proportion Challenge: Freaky Faces
Young artists have fun making freaky faces when they accept the challenge of making proportional portraits. They must find pictures in magazines, cut out two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, and then rescale these images into a portrait.
Curated OER
Arcimboldo Style Self Portraits
High schoolers view and discuss Renaissance art, including the work of Arcimboldo. They create their own self portraits through imagery and symbolism in the Arcimboldo style.
Curated OER
Van Gogh Self-Portrait
Young scholars explore using digital cameras to take their own photograph and then download them to the school's Dell computers. They then utilize the Tool Factory Workshop program to manipulate the photograph to only a few basic colors...
Curated OER
What is Good About Me?
For this self-portrait worksheet, students draw a picture of themselves in the space provided. They then write some words that tell what is good about them.
Curated OER
Objects as Self
Students examine how objects and setting help complete a self-portrait. They analyze Franklin's self-portraits before creating their own. They try to create the self-portrait as if they were in Franklin's time.
Curated OER
Brian Murphy ¿¿¿ Sleeping Self-Portrait¿¿¿
Students examine and discuss the painting, "Sleeping Self-Portrait," by Brian Murphy. They answer discussion questions, mix various paint colors, and create a self-portrait using the primary colors and white.
Curated OER
Miniature Portraits
Fifth graders are developing their computer skills as they create self portraits. They decorate and develop their own picture to later be made into pins, or necklaces. Students also develop a feel for using a camera.
Other popular searches
- Digital Self Portraits
- Van Gogh Self Portrait
- Abstract Art Self Portraits
- Visual Art Self Portraits
- Cut Paper Self Portrait
- Van Gog Self Portrait
- Drawing Self Portraits
- Art Picasso Self Portrait
- Self Portrait Photography
- Self Portrait Art
- Abstract Self Portraits
- Mixed Media Self Portraits