In anticipation of the MMS kindergarten graduation celebration, our class worked on self portraits this week. As you may recall, the children made watercolor self portraits in the beginning of the year. This was a chance for them to revisit the idea of creating a portrait of themselves as well as to show off the skills they have learned this year.
Although this project had many steps and requirds both focus and patience, the children did really well with it.
We began with black construction paper. Using light-colored pencils, we outlined our faces, necks, shoulders and all of our features. We paused for questions, help and direction to be sure that we really had the basics of our faces down before moving on the the next phase.
After this the kids traced over their colored pencil lines with black oil pastel. Then they used a rainbow of oil pastels to color their faces, hair, eyes and backgrounds just the way they liked.
These portraits are beautiful! Quite expressive both in style and substance. I hope that the kids are proud of what they accomplished in these pieces. I know that I am!
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