Self Portraits

European art is the focus in October, it gives students an oppertunity to work in familiar formats like landscapes, still lives and self portraits. Last month 2nd and 3rd grade class was introduced German artist, Albrect Durer one of the forefathers of self portraiture. In this assignment students used red, yellow, blue and white tempera paint to mix their own skin tones and paint swatches of color. Students used their swatches and construction paper to collage these self portraits.

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