My first grade students have been working with the concept of portraits quite a bit this year.
I came across a set of postcards by a local artist this winter when I was at the BizarreBazaar:
Sarah Coyne of Egg-a-Go-Go
"Cats in Clothes" series
I loved the cats with personalities of people and it reminded me that I inherited this book from a former teacher, "Impressionist Cats" by Susan Herbert:
The kids got a kick out of the cat portraits and impressionists impressions. More importantly though, they were great examples of how portraits can show a close up of a person, a whole body, emotion, clothing, occupation, etc.!
We approached our lesson like the postcards were composed- with an oval shaped 'frame' to draw our cat portrait within and a 'wall paper' background. My goal was to have each student have a closer up portrait and also a whole body portrait- due to severe sickness traveling throughout our student body there are many who only came out with one finished piece- but I still have piles of them and they are hilarious (and genius)!
very cool! great variety in character and detail. glad to hear the artist was so receptive to the kiddos work:)
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