Selfies!

Welcome to a new school year! Our first project is always self-portraits. This year they are on a smartphone and we made Selfies. I found the smartphone on Pinterest. I think it's from Teachers Pay Teachers. First we studied different artists' self-portraits and discussed why someone would paint themselves or even  take a selfie. My answer is to show people what you look like at that time. I demonstrated how to draw the facial features. After students drew their selfies, they were able to design a background and case for their phone, if they didn't want to leave it white.

These are just some of many- I don't have pictures from my other school yet. 

Here you can kind of see the Cat in the Hat I made for my wall:

It's always a challenge to come up with interesting new ways to draw self-portraits each year. I think the kids liked this one the best. 

"Oh, the Places You'll go!"

Here are some of the decorations we used this year on our hallway for our "oh, the places you'll go!" theme at one of my schools!

I drew the book cover on big banner paper and colored it with markers:

My wall for some future artwork:

Then some random photos of decorations I bought at Mardel:

I also drew the Cat in the Hat in a hot air balloon for another wall of mine:

Lots more decorating photos to come!