5th Grade Artists Depict 21st Century Americans

In their homerooms, 5th graders learned about the 20th century and each student was assigned a famous American to study. In art class, we brought those American’s to life with portraiture. The students used learned techniques from figure drawing and incorporated a touch of caricatured flare to create a likeness of their assigned person. The students also studied the style of famous American painter Alice Neel and were inspired by her unique technique and honest approach to figure painting.