Portraits by Room 10 - Term 1, Week 11, 2008

Mrs Driver has been working very hard with Room 10 to teach us all about portraits. A portrait tells us about people. We did self-portraits, which are pictures about us.

1. We were learning how to apply paint using brushstrokes.
2. We were learning to create textures using the brushstrokes and carving into the background paint.
   
3. We were learning about proportions. Proportions are making sure all your features on your face are in the right place.
4. We made our portraits with mixed media (paint, pastel, collage paper).

Have a look at our how we made our art:

The children start to paint their skin colour for the background of their face using brushstrokes.We painted our backgrounds with a thick layer of paint.

We used paint scrapers to add textures onto our backgrounds.
Mrs Driver glued down our faces onto the backgrounds.
We added are features using pastel and made sure we had our features in the right place.
We used paper to cut out shapes for our hair. We glued the paper down, this method is called collage.Mrs Driver made an art gallery of all our wonderful portraits in the corridor. They look fabulous. If you want to learn about portraits too, try these sites by clicking the word links below:

1. Learn about portraits
2. Play and learn about portraits

Have a look at our wonderful artwork: