Painting Lesson: Beginner Self-Portrait

This technique takes away the difficulty of nailing facial proportions and focuses instead on how colors behave and how to create movement in visible brushstrokes. Students love this project because they start the year out with confidence – this is a fail proof project and who doesn’t like Van Gogh? Worksheets: Color Wheels, Color Schemes, Tint, Tone and Shading Colors, Color Theory Vocabulary.