Silhouette Self-Portraits

Celeste

 Brian

Geno

Aliyah

Mason

It's harder than it looks!  That's what the 6-8th graders decided after their first week tracing silhouettes.  They had a discussion about Audrey Flack and Vincent Van Gogh's paintings that are sometimes considered portraits although they are still life compositions.  They then made lists of items that could be considered symbols of their own identities.  They will be drawing a collage-style background of these images to use inside the silhouettes in their own work, and they will create a contrasting solid or patterned background to use for the space behind their silhouette.  I look forward to learning more about them through this introductory project, and I hope to see them using their shading skills from last year in their work!