Corny portraits - grade 3

Spring has sprung, and I am feeling inspired to start Spring-ing up my projects! I saw this drawing on ffffound.com, and used it as inspiration for a grade 3 Spring art project.

I love doing different types of self portraits, and with the success of my snowflake project (the kids loved them) i thought it would be fun to do a Spring version.

I find these absolutely adorable. I thought for a while about what medium to use for them, and I'm happy that I went with watercolors. They have a nice, soft look to them that's perfect for the season.

The only problem with this post is that I took the pictures with my phone instead of my good camera. If I have time this week, I'll swap out these photos with some good ones - the colors are much brighter in person!

I find these so adorable, probably one of the cuter projects I've ever done!

A quick little update!

I'm back from Iceland and desperately trying to catch up, so this will be a quick little update on a cute, Icelandic artist-inspired lesson I did.

I found out about a really neat artist from Iceland named Erró. He does lots of these portraits that are half mixed with monster like creatures.

I thought it would be really funny if the grade 3's did this as well, especially since it's a fun way to do self portraits.

Following a lesson on how to draw a face (including dimensions, shapes of noses, mouths, eyes, etc.) students were each given a mirror. They studied the contours of their face, then began to draw a self portrait. When they were done, they colored it in in pencil crayon.

Then came the hard part - cutting their beautiful portrait in half. They were kind of delighted about cutting their work, but also shocked that they were cutting something they had spent so much time on.

They then used half of their face as a guide, and drew a monster or animal on the other side, keeping in mind the dimensions of their head, and the placement of their features.

They repeated the same thing for the other side of the monster/animal. When they finished that drawing, they colored it in in pencil crayon, and cut it in half.

Then, they cut all around their people/animals, and glued them (in this order: person, monster, monster, person) onto a piece of colored cardstock.

Such a cute little project!

Hamburger and Hotdog Head Portraits!

I'm coming down with something, and I'm definitely not at 100%. I needed a project for a grade 3/4 class today that was easy, required no paint, and that I knew they'd love. I came across this video   on this site early this morning and thought it was just hilarious and would work perectly.

I gave students 11x17 paper, and did a guided drawing on the board of how to draw the hotdog and hamburger men (I did both at the same time and let them pick which one they wanted!)

When they were inished, they colored them in with pencil crayons. I love how they turned out! I even have an idea for an extension project based on this, which I will hopefully do later this week if I can beat this cold!