Surreal Self Portraits 2015
It's that magical time of year again! My fifth graders have been working very very hard on their watercolor Surreal Self Portraits!! Here are a few that have finished. I'll post more later in the week! Last year I posted, " I have waited SOOOOO long to post this project! My fifth graders have worked SO hard and learned so much! I am pretty sure this is the most successful, difficult, and rewarding project I have ever taught! many students did a wet on wet technique for the background and incorporated any drips that happened along the way. I wanted them to work very loosely and not worry about messing up. Towards the end of the project I saw little artists emerging from their shells! They were trying new things, they were keeping their mistakes, and they were truly in love with their art! we dripped water just to see the spots it created, and and used straws to make drip explosions! They were lifting paint where they didn't want it, adding paint and taking giant leaps...