What is media or medium in art?

• Both mean the type of material being used to create the art!

What is mixed-media?

• Mixed media is any art that has multiple mediums such as using paint, collage, photo, and ink on one canvas.

• What types of mediums does this artist use?

Mixed-Media Portraits

• Today we are creating a mixed media portrait of a classmate.

• We will learn how to incorporate objects and ideas into our art to describe that person. Got any ideas you would like to share?

What is the purpose of mixed media?

• A creative non-traditional art from that explores material combinations!

• Can tell a story

• Present a controversial topic

• Describing who a person or place is.( depicting, illustrating, portraying)

• What else?

Read- Write- Pair Share

• Write your answer to my questions on a piece of paper and discuss it with your neighbor! We will then go over a few answers as a class.

1. What does the colorfulness tell us about the dog? How can color describe someone?

Question 1.

Question 2.

• How did the artist show something personal about JZ?

• What can we guess about him from looking at this picture?

Question 3

• What do the bottle caps do to this work of art?

• What kind of found objects might you include to describe someone?

Question 4

• What does text do for image, how is it used?

• How might you use text for your portrait?