Fourth Grade Shoe Portraits

Fourth graders took on a big task.  They created portraits of people- but without drawing a person!  They brought in shoes from home, and then spent time making observational modified contour drawings of the shoes to warm up.  They drew a VERY large final pencil drawing of the shoe, and then painted with watercolors to give it a finished feel.  Finally, they wrote a personal narrative from the perspective of the shoe owner- BUT they had to come up with a character who was not themselves!  This was a time consuming and difficult assignment that required not only visual art, but creative thinking as well.  Here are the kids at work, and their final artwork.