Students viewed portraits made by Dutch artist Marten Jansen, discussing use of colour ,line, shape. I just used “head shots”; some of his pieces are not suitable to use in primary school, eg. ‘Street walker’, ‘Solicitation’ for obvious reasons!!
They discussed different colour combinations to show emotion or create a mood and described the elements of art used. Talk about various lines used (thick, thin, long, short), shapes (circle, triangles, organic shapes) and colour.
Students worked from a photo of themselves made into a line drawing. (I took photos of the students, edited them on Photoscape (like Photopea) to change it into a line drawing, and then printed them on A3 cartridge paper. Alternatively, you could get them to trace their printed out photo with carbon paper. They then used colours, lines and shapes to fill it in using chalk pastels, (we used square blocks) using the edge, tip, side to produce various thickness and intensity of line. Blocks of colour can be used too, especially in the background.
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Can you use oil pastel for this project?
Hi there, of course, oil pastels would work well (less messy than chalk pastels!)