Self Portraits for Everyone!

It's that time of year AGAIN...  Our students are making self portraits for the ART TO REMEMBER fundraiser.  We love this company.  They do a great job turning our kids artwork into wonderful keepsakes for their parents to enjoy.  Every year each grade completes their portrait in a different style and medium.  My favorite product is the magnet.  I have all of my daughter's magnets across the top of the fridge and have enjoyed them for many years.  It is fun to see the progression of their talents as they get older.

Third graders learn about Pablo Picasso and  review cubism.  They first learned about his blue period in second grade. Making their portraits in this crazy abstract way is really fun and allows everyone to have success.  Almost anything they do works in the cubist framework.  We also learn about complementary colors (colors that are across from each other on the color wheel) as we paint the face and analogous colors (3 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel)as we color in the "broken mirror effect" in the background.