My favorite project this week was our Egyptian self portrait. After learning about Egyptian art, students created a self portrait that featured characteristics of Egyptian art. They drew them in pencil and colored them with colored pencil. For the background, they created a Styrofoam printing plate by drawing Egyptian hieroglyphics and symbols. Most of them spelled out their names on a cartouche, which is an oval with a horizontal line at one end, which indicates that the name inside is an important or royal name, and offers that person protection against evil spirits. Some added ankhs or other important symbols. They printed their plates using markers and damp paper. Finally, they put it all together, pasting the portrait to their backgrounds, and pasting that to a thicker sheet of paper. They added detailing and decorated the border in gold paint pen.
We also used a technique I've seen all over pinterest to create Japanese cherry blossoms: printing with the bottom of water bottles (with a twist, we printed again with a different color and then stamped centers with a foam dot brush, because our bottles had a larger spread between the "petals"):
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