This document provides guidance for students on creating a self-portrait, including factors to consider like expression, posture, clothing, background, colors, and style. It suggests that these choices can reveal how the artist sees themselves and what they want to convey. Students are instructed to first think about example self-portraits, then draw their own representing themselves and explain their artistic choices in a short paragraph. Finally, students will view and analyze each other's portraits.

1. Self Portrait

2. Introduction
• Think about the expression, posture,
clothing, background, colours and style of
the following pictures.
• Why do you think the artist chose to
represent themselves like this?

3. Expression.
• Smiling: Happy, confident etc
• Frowning: Sad, depressed etc

4. Background
• Things the artist is interested in.

5. Style
• Realistic: Can see their
expressions/feeling clearly.
• Unrealistic: Confused about their
personality?

6. Colours
• Light colours: Happy?
• Dark colours: Sad?
• Contrasting colours: Confused? Angry?

7. • His expression is
focused and he is not
smiling. He has no
clothes on and his face
looks very old/wrinkled.
The colours are dark
and shadowy. All these
things suggest he has
lived through lots of
hard times.

11. Activity Two
• Draw a self portrait that represents you.
• Think about the, posture, clothing,
background and style of your portrait and
how it represents you.
• Write a paragraph explaining how the
portrait represents you.

12. Activity Three
• I will put all the portraits on the wall.
• Walk around and try to guess who drew
each self portrait.
• Each group should choose a portrait and
write a few sentences about its expression,
posture, clothing, background, colours and
style.