Student Projects & Adaptations: Dillworth Middle School

Summary:

For this unit on portraiture, students took digital portraits of each other in different sections of the school. Downloading their portraits into Adobe Photoshop, the students first converted the images to black-and-white. Students then created four self-portraits, each with a different characteristic. The first portrait remained black-and-white, while the second was digitally altered. They drew or painted on the third image, and the final portrait was created through printmaking. Using a pencil, students etched design elements into Styrofoam lunch trays. Afterwards they applied paint to the Styrofoam using ink and rollers. Students then printed directly onto their "underpainted" digital print. After completing all four portraits, they mounted them onto card stock. Carefully arranging the portraits in Warhol's traditional four-portrait layout style, the students punched holes around each portrait, and then sewed them together with yarn. They then stitched their portraits together to create an even larger quilt that was easily displayed in their school's hallway.

Adaptations:

Students were shown various photographs taken by Andy Warhol, focusing on his later series of stitched photos.

Students wrote evaluations at the end of the project.