Q Self-Portrait Art Project Instructor: Jo Ann Hart The project will be formatted as a discussion. Students can see and reply to your posted image and descriptive paragraph. Directions for the project: 1. Your self-portrait will be a personal visual expression 2. You are, by nature, a very complex living organism 3. Your artwork will be time-specific; We will be able to visualize what you are like today, in the future, and in the past. 4. Your artwork will show multi-views of yourself. Your artwork will visually express part of your personality, your beliefs, your goals, and your feeling 5. Do not use text 6. Fill the entire surface of your artwork, an integrated background is an important component of your composition 7. You are not making a realistic self-portrait. 8. Your artwork can be made in any visual format (drawing, painting, sculpture, collage) or any combination 9. Be creative 10. Your artwork will be graded on effort, visual information, and creativity, not artistic ability 11. You may use any media or materials in your artwork 12. Think about why you are using a particular material 13. Different materials convey different feelings or can show different levels of importance in an artwork in the same way color can attract our attention or convey a feeling 14. Consider using a certain artistic style in your artwork 15. Think about how you can personally relate to the concepts or techniques of one or more artistic styles or art movements. 16. Do not judge your work as good or bad, pretty or ugly, perfect, or have too many mistakes 17. None of us are good or bad, pretty or ugly, perfect or have too many mistakes 18. Perfection and creativity come from us being imperfectly human Ideas for Self Portrait: Below are some processes you could use to complete this assignment. You can create your process or use one of the suggestions below. The self-portrait is not a representation of your physical appearance but what you are like on the inside. Your hopes, your dreams, your history, and your future. • Do a surrealist portrait that reflects distorted objects as if in a dream state • Take a famous artwork and put yourself in the composition adding objects that are important to you. • Collage a background of images that reflect feelings, goals, and beliefs. Draw or paint yourself on top letting part of the background be seen through your portrait • Cut out images the reflect your feeling, goals, and beliefs. Then make a mosaic portrait from your cutout images. Be sure to fill in the background before you start portrait, easier that way. • Print several different photos of yourself in various sizes. Print images that reflect what is important to you in various sizes. Google symbols used in art history for research. Use some historical symbolic objects and use objects of meaning in your life today. Adhere these photos onto 3D objects that symbolize a part of your personality. (candlestick with a lighted candle, ostrich egg, cross, mirror, broom, paintbrush, hospital mask, coffee pot, pyramid) • Create your comic strip using yourself as part of the storyline. You may use text as dialogue in the comic. The story can reflect an important event that helped shape your life or a dream of what will happen in the future. • Construct a 3D puzzle. Print or draw images that reflect what is important to you in various sizes. Print or draw one large image portrait of yourself, 8.5 x 8.5, cut this image into six equal pieces, 2.75 x 2.75. Out of a stiff material construct six cubes, 2.75 x 2.75 inches on each side. On one side of each cube, glue one piece of your portrait image. On the other side, glue images that are important to you. Images can overlap with each other and carry over to another side of the cube. Required information for completion of the assignment: 1. Give your artwork a Title 2. State the size of the artwork (your minimum size is 8.5 x 11) 3. Write a minimum of two paragraphs with the meaning of any symbolism (what do the images you chose mean to you), what time this is in your life (future, past, both), and meaning of your self-portrait (what do you want us to know about you as a unique individual). 4. Embed one or two pictures of your self-portrait with Title and size 5. Upload paragraph with images 6. Respond to one other student's posts on what you see in their self-portrait.