5. BLACK DIAMOND BLACK RAIN

6. MIZARU MUSICAL CHAIR

10. Use your experiences to give you something to work with.

11. Do have something in common with someone famous?

12. Words can be important.

13. Mixed Media
Self-Portrait
Guidelines
• Create an environment –
based on your personal
word poem
• Limited color palette that is
based on your emotions tied
to your word poem

14. Mixed Media Self-Portrait Guidelines
• Multiple Views of yourself and be
able to explain why you used this
type of drawing:
• Portrait with limited values
• Profiles
• Straight forward portrait
views
• Portraits where your eyes
don’t engage the viewer
• “x-ray” drawings in black or
white
• Instead of black as a
silhouette color, use white
• Draw in chalk pastel
• Overlap images of yourself
• Proportional changes
• Draw on tracing paper and
glue it into the piece
• Collage or mixed media
• Unexpected perspective

15. What media
can you use?
• Newspaper
• Magazines
• Acrylic Paint
• India Ink
• Gesso
• Charcoal
• Pencil
• Sharpie
• Tracing Paper