A Portrait Detective -- Issue 28 -- July 8-14
This week's standards: Students identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places. (Visual Arts) Students use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories. (Visual Arts)
Activities:
- Select a family member or friend and create your own portrait of that person. Share your portrait with others.
- Collect photos of people in the newspaper. Select people from different fields: athletes, entertainers, government leaders and regular citizens. Put your photos in your own "portrait gallery" scrapbook. Write a sentence about each person under his/her photo.
- Cut out the head and shoulders of someone in a newspaper photo. Paste the head on a large piece of white paper. Now create a portrait of that person: draw the person's body; draw the person in an interesting position; draw an unusual background for the portrait.
- Look at the portraits in today's Mini Page. How many portraits show
(a) people in sports,
(b) politicians and
(c) people in the arts?
Why do you think each of these people was selected to be featured in a portrait?
- Explore how different art media can be used to create portraits. Ask several friends to join you in an art experiment. Together, select a person who would make a good subject for a portrait. Then have each friend create a portrait of that person using a different type of drawing tool: colored markers, crayons, watercolor or tempera paint, or a fine-point black felt pen. Compare your finished portraits. Talk about how the medium you use changes the nature of your portrait. What are the advantages of each medium? Use resource books and the Internet to look at portraits, paying attention to the art medium used to create each portrait.
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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