Feelings as a Medium (Part 4, the final piece) - PS 4

Putting the pieces together!

We are going to use the work we made about our feelings AS the media to construct our self-portrait. Our artwork, scissors and glue are our only tools for today. We are going to work together, one step at a time to construct all the important pieces of our face and shoulders and hairstyles - and the left over bits will be used to create a backdrop for your portrait - nothing will go to waste!

Demo:

1. Choose which feeling is going to be the base - cutting out head shape and shoulders as a group, glue together immediately

2. Choose which feeling is going to be your shirt - cutting the shape out as a group - talk through a few style options, glue on immediately

3. Choose which feeling is going to be your hair - name as a group some possible approaches - in small sections, using specific shapes, layering, in one piece etc - glue immediately

4. Now that we are starting to have smaller scraps, plan which feeling pieces are going to be the different facial features - talk through simple shapes we can use to represent each feature, glue pieces as we go, cutting eye shapes together, and triangular nose shapes etc

5. Talk as a group about different ways to fill the background with the left-over bits - do we cut them into different kinds of shapes, or tiny pieces? Do we create a texture with ripping and frayed edges? Is there a way to create a color pattern? Do the pieces all come from one direction, or flow together in certain ways? - final moment for some freestyle, dependent on time. Will be clear it is their only time to finish, so making quick and clear choices will be the name of the game (and great practice)

I doubt we will have time in this session to share out - there's a lot to get done! We will start the next project/session by talking about why we would make a portrait out of emotions - as a natural segue into talking about how our support systems are also integral to helping us manifest a sense of self i.e. the family/community trees we will be starting at that time - and working on through December.