Lesson 5: Mixed-media portraits
Concluding their investigation of portraits by evaluating ideas and giving feedback, then creating finished self-portraits in their chosen materials.
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Learning objective
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Display the Presentation: Fact tennis. Ask the children to work with a partner and take turns to present a fact about changing their self-portraits from the last lesson. Answers could include:
How to create an atmosphere.
Trying different compositions.
How to use more or less of the photo.
What the effect of colour has on their self-portrait?
How they can communicate something about themselves in their self-portrait.
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Lucy is an Art and design specialist with 19 years of experience teaching and leading the subject in primary schools across all key stages. Having specialised in Tapestry at degree level, she trained as a teacher while maintaining her own creative practice. In the school setting, she aims to enable children to learn as artists and to empower teachers to feel confident delivering the subject.
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