Self portrait

In Home Room we all made self portraits of our self to hang up in our classroom. It took a while to finish the portrait but I had lots of fun making it and having a challenge.

First we covered a wooden board in lots of ripped up bits of news paper and found 8 words that describe our self and stuck them over top of the ripped up newspaper. Some of my words were Sports, Build, Hockey and New Zealand. 

We then painted over the newspaper with lots of different colours of paint. 

After that we got a printed paper with our face on it. (This was our practice paper before we did the real thing) We coloured on the back of the paper with black pastel then we placed the picture with the pastel facing down on another piece of paper. 

We had to trace around our face and body and when we lifted the paper up our traced face would be there.  Then after that I was able to do it on my board. I slowly traced around my face and lifted the paper up.

I was finally able to paint now. So I painted over my practice paper to get used to painting. 

Then I got to paint around the outlines of my face on my board. After I let it dry I painted shapes on the background and painted around my shapes and body with white paint. 

After the white paint dried I when over my black lines again.

The last step was to cover our portrait in some shiny stuff.

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My finished portrait 

My practice portrait