Surrealist Portraits (& Frida!)

Realistic portraits are never a favorite project of 8th graders.  This lesson helps overcome those complaints by combining the skills and technique of drawing portraits with a Surrealist collage twist. We discuss Frida's work (and even though she did not consider herself a Surrealist painter) we talk about why she could be considered one. After the project is finished, we write a short artist statement to explain the story behind our portrait. 

Artist Trading Cards- Artists and Mediums #2

This is the second set of artist and mediums covered so far. 7th graders- we only went over Picasso and O'Keeffe on Thurs/Fri. We'll come back to the last two artists in a week or so.

Artists this time around are Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol. Our medium choices for creating the cards are blended oil pastel, tissue paper and glue, charcoal pencil with collage and Styrofoam printing. Students must also highlight one element and one principle of art in their cards. The slides below were reviewed in class.

An overview of projects

 

Way to go 8th grade! Unbelievable work and craftsmanship. Keep it up! Looking forward to the rest of the quarter. 

-Mrs. Hare