A Snapshot in Time Portraits

Soft Pastel, mixed papers, watercolour and oil pastel

An Oil Pastel Portraits painting unit with the theme Portraiture exploring A Snapshot in Time. For this unit students-built skills in painting and mixed media, skills in developing the human face, explored portrait photography and generated imaged from photographs, researched works of artists who explored portraits and evaluated their works and discussed the process.

One of the strengths of Painting with Mixed Media is the sheer number of techniques it demonstrates, including: painting, drawing, layering, collaging, texturizing, sgraffito, create peeled paint effect, monoprinting, frottage, rubbing, slicing, weaving and more!

As nouns the difference between portrait and portraiture is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while portraiture is a portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
Year 8
Haileybury, Brighton