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Drawing – Charcoal Portraits

Students in my Art 2 – Honors Art classes completed some amazing (and often award-winning) charcoal portraits over the years. They used a grid to transfer information from the photograph they were working from to their paper, starting with a … Continue reading

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Torn Paper Portraits

As a short-term project, students created torn paper self-portraits. A picture was taken of each student and it was abstracted in Photoshop using the cut-out filter. This filter breaks the image down into specific values and students chose the number … Continue reading

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