8th graders are obsessed with themselves, and the art room is the best place to embrace that! Students worked with someone they felt comfortable with to take a digital photo of themselves. The only rule I gave them was that their face had to take up 75% of the frame.
Students converted the photos to grayscale and "posterized them" to see significant changes in value using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Photos were printed off to 8x10." From there the kids used a grid drawing method to enlarge their portraits to 16x20." Once they were drawn, students selected a monochromatic color scheme and began painting! (Paying particular attention to changes in value.)
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