Grade 8 Self-Portrait Painting
Success Criteria
The purpose of this culminating project is to further explore some important aspect or aspects of your personality by creating a self-portrait painting using skills you have developed this term such as portraiture drawing, gesture drawing, and a variety of painting techniques. Through this project you will also become more familiar with mixed media and layering.
Key Elements and Principles:
Unity – A principle of design. The arrangement of elements to give the viewer the feeling that all the parts of the piece form a coherent whole.
Harmony – A principle of design. The combination of elements (colour, line, shape, texture) so as to highlight their similarities and produce a unified composition.
Movement: actual lines to lead the viewer’s eye (e.g., solid lines, dotted lines); subtle or implied
“paths” using shape, value, and/or colour (e.g., an invisible path created by leading the eye from large shapes to small shapes, from shapes in dark colours to shapes in lighter colours, from familiar shapes to unfamiliar shapes, from colour to no colour, from text to text)
Success Criteria:
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Multiple Layers (minimum 4) by applying washes, gloss medium glazes, tissue, translucent and opaque acrylic, papers, photocopies, rubbings, ink…
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Gesture drawing in correct proportion
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Incorporate Text related to personality
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Self-Portrait or a dominant feature (from mirror, media class photocopy)
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Several painting techniques (minimum 4) with and without a brush
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Enhancement using drawing materials (minimum 3) pastels, crayons, markers, conte
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Artist statement that documents step by step process, use of principals of design and reflection
Multi- Media Self-Portrait Painting
Criteria Level 4 Level 3 Level 2
Body & facial proportions
Use of painting techniques
- accurate measurement and placement of facial feature/s
-7 heads to the body
-successful experimentation with more than 4 techniques
Layering - more than 4 layers using a variety of materials–risk taking is evident and effective
Principles of
Design
- with precision considered and applied unity(use of space, colour, line, shape), harmony
(placement and composition of figures) and movement(to lead the viewer’s eye)
- minor error in measurement and placement of facial feature/s and less or more than 7 heads to body
-successful experimentation with 4 techniques
- 4 layers using a variety of materials–risk taking is evident
- considered and applied unity(use of space, colour, line, shape), harmony
(placement and composition of figures) and movement(to lead the viewer’s eye)
- several errors in measurement and placement of facial feature/s and less or more than 7 heads to body
- some difficulty
- less than 4
-techniques are not clearly identifiable
- Some difficulty applying all 4 layers
-some variety of materials included
- lack of unity in colour, shape, or line
-composition and placement lack harmony
- eye is not lead easily through painting
Level 1
-with assistance or missing a portrait of self or gesture drawing of body
-Less than 3 techniques are present
-Less than 3 layers are present
- limited consideration was given to choice of colours, use of positive or negative space, or placement of figures