For this lesson, I have students look at the artwork of more modern, even still working artists. The goal being they notice the style and recreate elements of it in their own self-portraits. This is the project I decided to do some flipping to it.
I used four artists this year, Kehinde Wiley, Roy Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Peyton, and Tamara Madden.
Before I even get to the artists, I have them sketch and practice drawing their self portraits and use proportions to guide them to get more realistic in there design. I even take pictures of them so they can draw on it to figure out their lines.
Once some practices are created, unlike previous years, I introduced the artists quickly and guided them through online resources I provided.
I am lucky to be at a school that has chrome books. Now, sadly my students could not access youtube so my technology interrogator and I came up with a plan.
We used screencast-matic. This program that allows you to record the actions on your screen and record voice. It was very easy to use and I HIGHLY recommend for it is not that expenses either. So I made demo videos of how to use the artists style in their own artwork and posted it through this program. This provided provides a website I could send my students too and they could decide for themselves and best of all SAVE TIME! Before this project took two extra weeks because they got confused due to me presenting all artists and not sure who was what. They could use the chrome books to re-watch steps.
I personal feel they learned better and made a strong connection AND turned out better too.
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