Sunday, April 10, 2011

Thursday Acrylics Class Self Portraits

Last Thursday, we scheduled a session of self-portraits in my Figures and Faces Acrylics class.  What fun it was!  I bought ten stand-up mirrors from the Dollar Store, and told the students that yes, they needed to plan on sketching a relatively good likeness of themselves first, and then, to get creative with their painting of self portraits ... bring hats, change the geometry of their likeness, use unusual color combinations, etc.  My students have such a great attitude and willingness to try anything and everything, that indeed several brought in hats, and chose to paint very creative compositions.  The results were wonderful, and made us all smile!



3 comments:

Celeste Bergin said...

this is a wonderful slide show---! Love the artists in their hats...!
Super creative to have them do that and record the results. Bravo!

Dee Doyle said...

Thank you, Celeste,

I tried tor make it fun, so my studnets would be less intimiated to make it "look like" them! It really was fun. My toehr acrylics class will be doing it Monday. Stay tuned!

Dee Doyle said...

God, I should proff read better than I do ... That's "students," "intimidated," and "other." My typing teacher would turn over in her grave ...