In this “classic” Calvert project, sixth graders first created their backgrounds by making tessellations- a special kind of design made from different patterns of repeating shapes called polygons (closed shapes that have three or more sides). In tessellation designs, congruent polygons fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces that repeat again and again- they could go on forever! Students painted their tessellation designs using either a warm or cool color scheme.
To create the portrait, students traced the light and dark areas of their faces using a projected digital photograph. Using the opposite warm or cool color scheme from their background, they painted their portrait, making sure their light and dark areas were highly contrasting... Looking good!:.jpg)
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To create the portrait, students traced the light and dark areas of their faces using a projected digital photograph. Using the opposite warm or cool color scheme from their background, they painted their portrait, making sure their light and dark areas were highly contrasting... Looking good!:
If I can ask how large of paper did you use for this project? Did you use two different papers for the tesselation and the portrait then just glue them to one another?
ReplyDeleteThe paper is 18x24 white drawing paper. Two different papers- the tessellation is done first and covers the whole first paper. The portrait is done on paper #2, then cut out and glued on top of the tessellations.
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