As part of our first Year 2 topic of 2015, Osprey class has been learning all about ourselves. We have researched where we were born, where we live, what food we should each and how much exercise we should do. It has been really fun learning about us and, as part of our Art lessons with Miss Rachel, we have spent a lot of time and effort creating our own self-portraits.
It sounds easy but it actually takes a lot of skill to make sure all the parts of your face are in the right place. We started by touching our faces and feeling what parts were where…which was actually quite strange! We then used mirrors to keep checking what our faces ‘really’ looked like and not just what we ‘thought’ they looked like.
We discovered that self-portraits are actually rather tricky! You have to make sure the top of your ears are in line with the centre of your eyes (they really are, check it!), the gap between the bottom of your nose and mouth must be small (because you fultrum is short) and you mustn’t forget all the detail, like freckles, eye colour, eyelids and eyelashes, the texture of your hair and the colour of your skin.
It took us a few weeks to complete them but we are really proud of the end result. Why not come by Osprey class and see if you can work out who is who. They are so detailed and life-like that we are confident you’ll be able to guess!
