Modigliani-Inspired Portraits 

Do Now: If you could have anything grow on trees, what would you choose?

"Air heads, popcorn, 3DS games, pizza, pancakes and more."

"People and hair."

"Mine is basketballs and marshmallows." 

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"The tree of food found in my belly."

"I have a tree with cake. The magical world of chocolate red velvet cake and it has a red velvet rainbow cake."

The 3rd and 4th graders are continuing to study portraits as part of their "Genres of Art" unit. Today, we learned about the artist Amedeo Modigliani . 

Modigliani is an Italian painter from the early 20th century, most famous for the distinctive way he made portraits. 

Before beginning our project, we took a look at some of his paintings. 

We discussed how Modigliani painted dark, solid backgrounds, how his subjects had thin features, and how he painted people with long, slender necks. 

We then made our own Modigliani-inspired portraits! We used paper, pencil, marker, and cray-pas (oil pastels). 

The results were beautiful! I was even lucky enough to receive a beautiful Modigliani-Inpsired portrait of myself!