What is your material of choice?!

This week grade three started exploring the use of different art materials to represent themselves.  They have spent time practicing their self portrait drawing skills using pencils and mirrors.

They got to spend a class exploring oil pastels, crayons colored pencils and markers, watercolor paints and tempera paints to test which material (s) will work best for them. 

Ultimately they will be creating self portraits that tell a story about themselves.  If you could use any art material to create a self portrait, which ones would you choose and why!? 

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Printmaking + Self-Portraits

This morning 4A and 4C printed their self-portraits in and on their sketchbooks as well as the first corner of their self-portrait poster.  As we know, pop art is well known for its' repeated images and bright colors. Both classes did a fantastic job cleaning up the art room also- showing responsibility for their materials and respect for the classes coming to use the space after. Great teamwork in both classes!

3B got to explore the wet on wet watercolor painting technique this morning to create "crazy-fuzzy-porcupine-blob-shapes" I can't wait to hear the stories we'll be telling with these organic shapes next week!