While I'm showing you examples, I want you to jot down artists and techniques that you like the best. Now, I want you to jot down a few more artists and techniques that you can think of and by tomorrow you need to pick the one that you want to draw and present in some way. As a class, we need to decide how to present the artists we each chose, so that we can all understand a little bit about the artist's life, the technique that they used, and how each of us achieved that technique in our own self-portrait. You might want to go to the library or look on the Internet for more ideas, because you don't have to use the same examples that I used. Be creative, the solution to the problem is up to you.
Students participate demonstration on different self-portrait techniques throughout history.
Students will draw a self-portrait based on the technique of the artist of their choice. Students will present briefly the history of their artist, explain the techniques that they used, and explain how they demonstrated that technique in their drawing. All the students were very engaged during the lecture, because I asked them lower level questions and used colorful visuals on the overhead. I also told them interesting facts on the different artists and their approaches to the self-portrait. I also tried to use a lot of different artists such as high school, college, local, multicultural, female and male, and from different eras.