Our 4th graders have completed their self portrait project! During this project, they learned about how the content of portraits, such as the sitter, their clothing, and the background, all help give information about who is in the portrait. We learned how a pyramid compositional structure is used to direct the viewer's eye to the focal point of the portrait, which is most commonly the sitter's face. The students learned how to blend and burnish with colored pencils to color their own self-portraits. Below is one of our reference images, the Mona Lisa, as well as samples of finished work from 4A, 4B and 4C.
