Plan Your Portrait
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Students will examine cool colors. Students will create a hand-drawn and digitally drawn self-portrait made of cool colors. Students will discuss the similarities and differences between an artwork using traditional media and digital media.
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Lesson Objectives
Students will examine cool colors.
Students will sketch ideas for a self-portrait.
Students will take a photograph as inspiration for a self-portrait.
Teaching Strategies
- Lead discussion about cool color schemes.
- Facilitate the sketching of self-portraits.
- Aid in the photography of self-portraits.
- Facilitate use of the digital drawing application.
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Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art- making or designing.
VA:Cr2.1.8aDocument early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.
VA:Cr1.1.8aTime Requirements
Teacher Prep Time
40 minutes
Demonstration Time
45 minutes
Student Studio Time
3 hours and 40 minutes
Supplies and Materials
- Digital device (tablet or computer)
- Digital drawing application
- Digital camera (device or phone)
- Sketchbook
- Pencil
- Eraser
National Standards
Create
Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art- making or designing.
VA:Cr2.1.8aDocument early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.
VA:Cr1.1.8a
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Discuss Cool Colors
Review the color theory concept of cool colors.
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