ACRYLIC SELF-PORTRAITS: BLENDING, LAYERING, USING THE VISUALIZER

First, students in Ms Greene's painting class spent several days blending acrylics and learning layering, application and mixing techniques. Then most students traced pencil outlines of themselves onto their canvases using a camera device called a Visualizer, which allowed them to get proportions right in a reasonably short time. A few advanced students painted directly from observation. The portraits are hanging in the atrium for the last several weeks of school.

From top to bottom: Mason Cleveland, Scott Welch, Nicole Lawless, Maria Wallace, Maggie Dwyer, Emily Lohr,Colleen Garrity and Alex Bozuwa.