Sensational Self Portraits!!!!

I did not even plan to do this with my daughter, but Maggy from Red Ted Art's Blog just did a post with her son about self portraits and that inspired me! She said she was entering it in the Portrait Exhibition that Lilla a Blog is having, so I checked that out that too, and it got me excited to try a self portrait with Cassie and possibly enter it too! She did one drawing with Crayola Oil Pastels and a second drawing with oil pastel and collage elements. In the exhibition Lilla a wants it to be more of a collage so that is why we did the second one in collage! They both turned out Great and I encourage all of you with little ones to try a self portrait with them too! My daughter was very excited to create these! Cassie is SO PROUD OF THEM! Go to Lilla a to see the Portrait Exhibition!!!

I wanted the self portrait to be large and to have room to fit her eyes, nose, mouth, and other features so we used a small plate to trace a circle.  For the exhibition we used a large paper plate. What shape is a face? A circle and oval is what my daughter answered!

Next, we colored the skin color of the face. Cassie loved the oil pastels! They look great to overlap colors!

Then we added eyes.  I told her to look at her face in a mirror to see the color of her eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, and even the pupils! I asked my daughter what else do you see? She said her nose and then wanted to use two small black buttons for nostril holes for the exhibition collage. Also, she added a mouth with oil pastel. Not a red mouth here!  Four year olds are hard to convince and may say their mouth is pink and will still make it blue! On her exhibition collage she added red lips! Four year olds definitely have a mind of their own!!!!

Look how hard this girl works! Lastly, we added curly red hair. For the collage, the hair was added first with yarn! Cassie loved that!

Cassie really had a fun time and wanted to keep making these self portraits!

Cassie's finished oil pastel self portrait!

Cassie's collage self-portrait for the exhibition!
***Notice the added buttons and glittery gold necklace for the finishing touch!!!

Have fun making a self-portrait with your little ones!!!

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