High Quality Work

We are diving into high quality work as part of our first case study for our Learning Expedition: "Everybody Has a Story".   Students are sharing about themselves through oral communication and drawing a high quality self portrait. As first graders, we realized this is a lot of work that takes a lot of perseverance.  

First, we had Mrs. Fisher, our art teacher, come as an expert to teach us about how to even start a self portrait. 

On days 1 & 2, we used YouTube to help us with a step by step plan using a mirror to complete our rough draft of our self portrait.  As artist, we used both our eyes and our hands to observe our facial features.








On day 3, we conferred with a friend using the model...

"I noticed...."
"I wonder...."
to give constructive feedback.  This allowed us to revise some of our drawings by adding and removing some things.

Lastly we transferred our rough draft onto our final draft copy.  We have had to show GREAT perseverance.  This week, we will be adding the final touches with color techniques such as blending and shading.