how to draw a self portrait for kids

Objective: In this self-portrait fine art lesson, featuring World Color colored pencils, teaches students celebrate diversity and cocky expression past creating an art collage inspired by the book The Peel You Live In, by Michael Tyler.

Grade level: second - 4th
Fourth dimension required: 2 - 45 min form periods

THE Pare YOU Alive IN
past Michael Tyler, illustrated by David Lee Csicsko
The Skin You Live In is a delightfully rhyming picture book celebrating diversity, and encouraging self-esteem in it's readers by playfully exploring the concept of skin color, and the ways in which all children are unique yet similar.

In this lesson plan, students create a lively self-portrait in cut paper collage inspired by Csicsko's quirky, cheerful art, and choose their own unique peel toned pencil to accurately reflect the color of their pare.

Materials:
Faber-Castell World Colors - Peel Toned Colored Pencils
Faber-Castell Colored Construction Newspaper
Pencil
Glue
Scissors

National Core Art Standards—Visual
Creating
Anchor Standard #1: Generate and anticipate artistic ideas and work
Anchor Standard #3: Refine and complete creative piece of work
Presenting
Ballast Standard #5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and piece of work for
presentation
Responding
Anchor Standard #8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Connecting
Ballast Standard #ten: Synthesize and relate cognition and personal
experiences to make art

Vocabulary: cocky-portrait, variety, compose, stylize, complimentary, dissimilarity, elements, assemble, highlight

one. Brainstorm with your students about the many fun and imaginative ways there are to express their personal interests, favorite occasions and activities in their cocky-portraits. Consider wear, accessories, and weather (umbrellas or snow could be fun!) Children will be certain to surprise y'all with interesting and unexpected ideas!
Take students do a loose sketch of their thought on a piece of copy paper to use as their guide.

Self Portrait Art Lesson Plan
2. Next, have students advisedly choose their colored papers based on the ideas in their sketch, including a 9 ten 12 piece of background color that volition complement the other colour choices in their fine art. Bear witness how to consider complimentary colors and dissimilarity- dark against low-cal. Offer re-create paper to apply for the crisp
whites of optics and other details.

Have students chose the skin toned pencil colour that they call back most closely matches their own pare.
Self Portrait Lesson Plan
3. Brainstorm the art by demonstrating how to suspension down the basic elements of their portrait into elementary stylized shapes, then cut them out of colored paper. Have them utilise the off-white construction paper for skin equally a base at this point, (students will color it later).
Discourage as well much drawing, and instead, show how to get straight to cut their shapes from paper. This method about always results in a much more spontaneous, playful look, with imperfect shapes adding unexpected grapheme and fun.
Self Portrait Lesson Plan - Step 3
4. Instruct students to proceed to pattern and embellish their portraits with their own unique ideas. Encourage a clean, bold, graphic look. Next, have students colour their skin with their chosen pencil, and then begin to loosely assemble the pieces of their portrait. Show them how to brand eyes come alive with a white highlight, and demonstrate how to play with the last positioning of pieces to create beautiful and funny looks and expressions with eyes, eyebrows, kleptomaniacal mouths, shoulders, etc. Gum pieces into place.

Celebrate and enjoy your student'south unique portraits, they will be full of personality and charm!
Tip: Mounting the portraits on larger black paper will make them pop, perfect for displaying in the fine art room or your next art show!

Artist Biography - Janis Doukakis