Watercolor Portraits

As we near the end of the year, students are completing their watercolor self portraits, our final project.  With this project, we focused on color theory and representation of emotion through color.  Students were randomly assigned an emotion, and had to represent that emotion in a "selfie".  There was a focus on expression, framing, and angles when students took the images.  Using photoshop, we then edited the images and transferred them to watercolor paper.  Students were required to include 3 analogous colors from the color wheel within their painting, and have even transitions between all colors.  Here are some examples of student work: