Student Art Feature: Bronze & Silver Clay Portraits

I am back with another Student Art Feature. I have not had a chance to get my act together enough to get all the things I want to say out here so I am going with this today. Maybe later this week I can share all the goodies my students and I have been working on.

This is my second favorite student art feature.

(My favorite is yet to come.)

I was kind of taken aback by how creative, simple, and how professional these student portraits look.

Here are two far away shot of the whole bulletin board they are displayed on. The shot is not a great one. Again I was walking around with my iPhone snapping pictures in the hall. I must have looked like a weird teacher.

 Anyway, this is just so you can get a perspective of how they look from afar.

 The real magic happens when you get up close.

 They remind me of coins. :)

  When I talked to the art teacher she shared with me that the kids made the faces out of clay on some tag paper. The clay dried and then she came in on the weekend to spray paint them all in the gym.

 She also shared that all the doors were open and the gym stunk for 2 days! So if your going to recreate please keep that in mind.

 In my opinion, they are amazing.

 I feel like I could see them on display at some museum or gallery.

These were done by 1st graders. :) I love how different each one is.

I hope to be back this week with our very late Presidents days activities and some long over due Organization projects. That is right, I fell off the Organization train, but I am back on now, just a few weeks late. :P

Have a great day!