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All About Me!
Reinforce punctuation skills as well as printing skills with a kindergarten autobiography worksheet. Youngsters write their information, including their name, address, and age, and draw a picture of themselves and the place where they...
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Make a Van Gogh-Style Self-Portrait
Learn by doing! Young artists try their hand at creating their own self-portraits in the style of Vincent van Gogh. This worksheet contains a brief explanation of the essential qualities of van Gogh's art: complementary colors and...
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Picasso Portraits
Explore Pablo Picasso. For this art history and face drawing lesson plan, read a brief biography of Pablo Picasso. Draw a self portrait following guided instruction by the teacher. Paint a self-portrait and practice adding white...
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Seeing Yourself
Students compare the meanings of self-portraiture and portraiture. They examine Andy Warhol's Mick Jagger series (1973) of portraits. Afterward, they create self-portrait drawings on unbreakable mirrors.
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Technology in Art
Complete three different self portraits in this art technology lesson. Your class will discuss the cubism genre and its characteristics. They create a regular self-portrait, a cubism self-portrait, and a cubism digital picture of...
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Self Portrait Jars: Labeling Ourselves
Seventh graders create an alternative self-portrait. In this art lesson students study the artwork of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Students use her work as inspiration for a self-portrait in a jar form.
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Self Portraits
Students examine Charles-Antoine Coypel’s Self-Portrait and discover what he shows in that piece of artwork. In this self portrait lesson plan, students will study a self portrait and discuss what they notice about it and what they...
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Andy Warhol/Digital Self-Portraits
Students research the life and art of Andy Warhol and create a digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait. Students conclude the assignment by writing a poem to describe the point-of-view taken in their digital photo.
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Self Portrait on Paper
Young scholars are guided into creating their own self-portrait in steps using colored pastels. They also use their self-portraits as a springboard to write a personal narrative. This is a cool lesson!
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Expressive Self Portrait Montage
Students create self portraits similar to the Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe portraits using digital images.
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Metaphoric Self Portrait
Students create 3D self-portraits using various sculpture materials that convey different meanings and emotions.
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Tribal (or Ethnic) Self Portrait
Students create self-portraits in which they represent themselves as a member of a tribe.
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Negative vs. Positive Thoughts
Seventh graders see themselves and how they think they are seen, which can be sometimes quite different. Self-esteem portrait allows the student to say how they think others see them, how they see themselves, and how others do indeed see...
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VAN GOGH'S PAINTING STYLE
Students identify and apply painting skills used by Vincent Van Gogh.
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Cut-Out Figures
Students trace and color their figures, cut them out, and put them up on the wall much like a Keith Haring painting looks. For this self portrait lesson plan, students then try to match the figures to each of their classmates.
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Self-Portrait of the Artist
Learners analyze the self-portraits by Pablo Picasso. In this art analysis activity, students explore Picasso's direct self-portraits and symbolic self-portraits. Learners complete image based discussion. Students create an alter ego and...
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The Artist at Work
Students analyze art pieces of Picasso and Diego Velazquez to consider artists self-portraits using their work tools. In this art analysis lesson, students complete introductory and image based discuss to consider how an artist chooses...
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Portraiture
Students compare portraits focusing on the artists' choices in medium, composition, and meaning. In this portrait analysis lesson, students analyze the art pieces for their medium, composition, and meaning. Students create a...
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All About Me: Digital Portfolio
Students create digital portfolios. In this careers lesson, students conduct research and use digital tools so that they can plan and present multimedia presentations that feature their best work, their extracurricular activities, and...
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Looking at Portraits: Looking at One's Self
Students observe the painting Self Portrait by Charles-Antoine and discuss what the artist is trying to say in his self portrait. In this self portrait lesson plan, students discuss the portrait, and create their own self portrait.
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Käthe Kollwitz: Never Again War!
Students explore the artistic works of Holocaust escapee Käthe Kollowitz. In this Holocaust art lesson, students examine the self-portraits that Kollowitz created and discuss the message in her woodcut images. Students design their own...
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Self Portraits Part 2
Sixth graders explore the concept of Cubist art. For this visual arts lesson, 6th graders examine examples of Pablo Picasso's work and they create self portraits in Cubist style.
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Self-Portraits
Sixth graders create self-portraits. In this visual arts instructional activity, 6th graders examine the relationship between mood and color value in pieces of art. Students create self-portraits that convey mood using cut paper and glue.
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Self Portraits
Students study themselves in a mirror paying close attention to every attribute on their face. For this self portrait lesson students create a self portrait the same way as Rembrandt has done many times. Students also ask themselves a...