Monster Self-Portraits

Second graders began the year by creating art about themselves.. well, kinda about themselves.  They created portraits of themselves as monsters!  To begin this trip into monster making, we read Peter McCarty's book, Jeremy Draws a Monster, and looked at monsters from Pixar's Monster's Inc.  There is a great video in which animator Ricky Nierva talks about the process of designing Skully and Roz.

http://www.pixar.com/behind_the_scenes/Character-Design

 Students then used the planning process to design some ideas for their own "monster me."


Finally, students used a combination of sharpies, oil pastels, crayons, and watercolor paint to complete their artworks.  Students had the choice of adding salt, rice, or saran wrap to the wet paint to create new textures.

What would you look like if you were a monster?