School Wide Self Portraits

This year, each student is drawing their self portrait on the first day they come to art. Pretty soon the hallways will be full of the self portraits made by all of the Irving students!

The classes looked at and discussed self portraits made by several different artists. We talked about things that are the same about all of the portraits and things that are different. The students all noticed that each artist has their own style that is evident in their self portrait.

Here are some of the images we looked at:

Frida Kahlo


Vincent van Gogh


Jean Michel Basquiat


Pablo Picasso



Chuck Close

Welcome Back to the Art Room!

I am so excited to be starting a new school year and to see all of the returning students as well as all of the new students coming to Irving this year!

Throughout the year I will be posting information about what each grade level is working on in art on the grade level tabs found at the top of this page. To the left are links to fun art websites, other teacher blogs, and ArtSonia where you will find Irving's online art museum.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.