Teachers' TV: portraits project outline

Title

Portraits project outline

Author

Wolverhampton Gallery

Associated Teachers’ TV programmes

Using Galleries: Hands-on Art

Programme description

A school who linked up with their local art gallery

Note to teachers

This download was not created by Teachers' TV but the author has allowed us to publish it here to be used for educational purposes

Portraits project outline

Objectives

  • To question and make thoughtful starting points for their work
  • To record visual and other information to help them develop ideas
  • To develop technical skills in printing and other 2D techniques
  • To compare ideas, methods and approaches in their own and others’ work

Activities

- Gallery visit as stimulus for work

- In school

Week 1

  • Sketching portraits of each other in pencil or oil pastels
  • Press printing using their sketches for ideas

Resources: press print sheets, printing ink, paper for sketches and to print on, pencils and scissors, ink trays, rollers

Week 2

  • Use sketches from last week to make monoprint images
  • Place sketch under plastic sheet and paint the printing ink over the image to match
  • Take a print from the inked plastic by placing paper over the inked plate and rolling to transfer image to paper

Resources: printing ink, paintbrushes, paper to print on, ink trays, rollers, Perspex sheets

Week 3

  • Sgraffito portraits on paper
  • Make drawings in thickly applied wax crayons
  • Paint coloured inks over the different areas of wax (similar colours or opposite colours)
  • Scratch away into the ink to create textured areas for hair, clothing and fine detailing

Resources: wax crayons, drawing inks, paintbrushes, water pots, cartridge paper, scraper tools

Week 4

  • Individual photos of each child in the class
  • Make a collage of a coloured background for their photograph using magazines
  • Add a press print image of their favourite toy to print in black onto the coloured background

Resources: magazines, scissors, glue, tissue paper scraps

Week 5

  • Collagraph portraits using card printing plates and sugar paper shapes stuck onto the card
  • Indent into the layers of sugar paper to create pattern or texture using biros
  • Roll with ink and print onto paper (thin is better than thick cartridge paper), rolling with a clean roller on the reverse of the printing plate

Resources: sheets of thin card, scissors, PVA glue, sugar paper, pencils, ink trays, rollers, old biros to indent the images