Portrait Slideshow

The portraits are all finished, the exhibition over!

Our exhibition.

The small photos below include the original photo that was projected onto the screen for the child to draw/trace over.

The other photos show the child working at various stages of his/her art work.

This display shows artworks done by some children since completing their portraits.

Some of the principles learnt during the portrait

painting process are now being transferred to paintings done at the easel independent of any adult support. e.g mixing their own colours

Examples of portraits for the children to study

Teacher's workshop on drawing eyes!

The process from the outline to the background

This is where we started!

The exhibition was a huge success. Lots of mums, dads, brothers, sisters, aunties, uncles, grandparents, students, lecturers, teachers and friends cruised through during the evening!

Well done all the children at St AndrewsEpsom ECC!

Finding Nemo

The eyes have it!

Emma 3.7

Danielle 3.6

Issy 4.3

Charlie 3.7

Mimi 4.4

Ahren 4.8

Maddie 4.5

Our Eyes

Toyah has been taking photos of the children's eyes and laminating them. We've had fun trying to work out who the eyes belong to!

Some of the children spot the owners straight away!

We put the laminated photos onto a table with pencils and paper and have been looking at them and drawing them.

Ishwari 's checking our her eyes in the mirror

Chanelle

Aki

Our portraits so far!

These portraits look good already and we haven't done the facial details yet.

We had to have a workshop for the staff with an artist Paul Johnston to figure out how to do the eyes!

Some of our parents have kindly brought in portraits that they have at home for us to show the children.

In this image you can see the black outline, the green underpainting and one portrait with the flesh and sweatshirt painted.

These have all been done by children between the ages of 2 and 5.

more on our self portraits

Ishwari

Now for some facial details and some background

Mabel

Looks just like her too!

Chanelle

Charlie

Flesh and hair finished - clothing to come

Matthew

Face underpainting completed

Next stage - flesh colour to be added