Year 8/9 - Portrait Artists Project - Change your Stlye/Before the Selfie

These task sheets are great for students to explore how a wide variety of artists created portraits. The artists explored are:
Fernando Botero, Julian Opie, Chuck Close, Seth McFarlane, Andy Warhol and Jon Burgerman.

Students work in the style of the artist to create their own small portraits of friends in the group.

I completed this unit of work by allowing the students to pick which artist they wanted to do and in what order. They tried to get one completed a week but sometimes it took longer. They then used all of the different styles to help fuel a portrait of their own. Some combined ideas, others simply used one technique they liked the most.