LEARNING ABOUT LEO ...nardo daVinci, that is!

Leonardo DaVinci was alive about 500 years ago. He was the greatest genius of the Italian Renaissance, and a really good artist!

This is a SELF-PORTRAIT of Leonardo daVinci, a picture he made of himself. It is MONOCHROMATIC:

"Monochromatic means one color. I am one color. My one color is brown. I get made fun of because of my color. Some of Leonardo daVinci's pictures are one color." -Maliah
















We made our own monochromatic self-portraits, like Leonardo:
"I learned how to make a self-portrait. You hold a mirror up to your face and draw." -Jacob

"First we draw our faces, then we paint it and put salt on it and put glitter (paint) on it." -Ben



We learned about the Elements of Art along the way:
"The elements of art are: line, shape, form, color, value, texture, and space. The ones I used the most are line, color and value." -Dawson

"I've used the element of line for my hair. I used wavy lines to give it texture. The other things I used it for are my eyelashes, eye brows, and neck." -Mackenna

"When I was painting I used salt to give my artwork texture. I think I used too much salt but it looks nice. I scraped off most of the salt, and that gave my artwork the crystally look. I hope you like it!" -Kayla

Reflections on our artwork:
"Ripping the paper was the easiest thing to do on this project because all you had to do is rip the paper." -Seth

"I named my artwork Monochromatic Marissa because I used one color like daVinci did." -Marissa

"I'm proud of my artwork because I did my best on it. I believe mine is pretty and looks like it's supposed to." -Maggie

"I think other people will think that my portrait is ok because it is a good drawing. However, the paint ran." -Conner

"My favorite part of making this project was making the face. Eyes, nose, and mouth. But my eyes were the funnest to make, they were hard, too." -Drew

"Drawing the nose, the eyes, and face was the most difficult thing to do on this project. It took me four days!" -Cody






Portraits shown were created by Maliah, Nathan, Bryce, Samantha, Ashley, Maggie, & Drew