Working with my students on our final projects makes for most of days being pretty relaxed. While not all students are caught up, I'm doing my best to keep things less stressful so kids can get their work done with what time we have left with school. My favorite project that I do with my digital art (illustration) students is the self portrait where kids just draw over a photo. It's super easy (for me) but a lot of kids who feel like they are not good artists create really nice work since there isn't a lot of thinking, just draw what you see. It gets some students inspired to keep drawing. I grabbed the photo I shot for our first project to draw over as an example (included here). I usually get these projects printed and post them in the office for admin and they love it.
As the school year winds down, we have 2 weeks left of class, no finals, we are starting to think about clearing out, cleaning up, yearbook distribution (the book is getting delivered this week) and just finishing up having survived a crazy year. What's next year going to look like?? No one knows.
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