Digital Self Portraits...with a side of imagination ;)

I love an art lesson with VARIETY!  Each of these is so different, and they give good insight to the kids' interests.  To complete these fabulous works of imagination, while students were working on a previous lesson, I took them each aside to have them pose for their portrait.



The next art day, students cut and glued their pictures down, depending, of course, on what they were going to be drawing. One tip:  I outline their bodies on their photograph before they come in, because some students do tend to get confused about where to cut.







I emphasized the importance of LINES and UNIQUE IDEAS in this lesson.  We had a discussion all about taking chances in art, instead of copying.  We used Crayola construction paper crayons on black paper to get that "glow in the dark" look :)






This was a lesson I did with second graders, but I think it would be fun and successful with most ages.





Keep on creating!!