Portraits

We have been learning how to draw portraits. We have explored famous portraits painted by artists such as Goldie, Frances Hodgkins and Rita Angus. We talked about what we noticed and what we liked or didn't like about the paintings. Then we watched a Youtube clip that explained the dimensions of the face. We found that there is a lot of maths connected with our faces - our eyes are halfway down our head, our nose is 1/3 down our head, our mouth is halfway between our nose and chin. Also - the pupils of our eyes line up with the corners of our mouths. This information helped us to think about where to position our features on our drawing. Mrs Jackson also took photos of us individually that we were to draw from.
Our first drawing task focused just on our eyes - we had to use our observational drawing skills to carefully draw our eyes. We had to remember to draw what we saw and not what we thought - this proved to be quite tricky at times.
Then we moved onto drawing our faces. Here are some examples of our amazing portraits.

Our next step is to paint!