Pandemic Selfie Portraits

I decided to end this year of middle school drawing with Portraits. I already knew several students were good at drawing them and wanted to give these artists a challenge to record themselves for this crazy year!

That left several students who needed to learn all the fun aspects of portrait drawing which proved to be quite the challenge for me! YAY! Overall, students did learn a bit about drawing more of what they see and how to record their images. I also made sure to take advantage of some of my star artists' talents and had them act as teacher's assistants and help their peers as well.

Students could choose to draw themselves with masks on or off. 

Here are just a few of the awesome pencil shaded versions:

Students could also do half portraits with personal symbols. 

Collaged Mixed Media Drawings

It was a good challenge to work with Collage and 

Drawing this semester. This is a lesson from 

"Mrs. Hamilton's ART Class"

on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Students first worked with a Symmetrical Bug Drawing 

and then chose their own subject for a second drawing.

We first collaged brown, black and dictionary 

papers onto a 5.5 by 8.5 paper. 

Then drew their drawing and finished each area in different 

media depending on which paper it  was on.

The variety of results was awesome and students 

really took to the challenge of mixed media!

You can find more Mixed Media Drawings here and here.  

More Bug Drawings can be found here and here.

Dragon Faces

Dragons are fun to draw this time of year. Since we were 

working on mostly drawing this year, I decided to try 

Dragon Faces and Colored Pencil Shading.

First we draw just half and then transfer the 

drawing to the other side for perfect symmetry. 

Many students did awesome with the color choices, blending 

and shading! Here are just a few finished student Dragon Faces:

You can find more Awesome Dragon Drawings here and here.