First Grade Art: Self-Portraits

First grade students in Illia Mazurek's art classes worked on drawing themselves from observation while looking in mirrors. The original pencil drawings were photocopied twice to preserve the beauty of their immediacy; the copies were then painted on. The first copy, once again, engaged the students' observational skills as they experimented with mixing paint to match their own skin tones. The second copy allowed the students to be expressive and imaginative as they "transformed" themselves.

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Ms. Bollig's Class
Ms. Brindley's Class
Ms. Johnson's Class
Ms. Landry's Class
Ms. Wagner's Class
Mr. Wilson's Class