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Draw a Blueprint Headwrap

Here'due south a multicultural art project idea that asks students to complete a photo with just black and white lines.

The art of mixing photos and lines beginning started showing upward on Pinterest years ago, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel to see why it'southward such a captivating projection. The contrast of the dimensional with the apartment is just too much fun to experiment with, as your drawings are only limited past your imagination.

In guild to make this thought accessible to busy teachers though, I accept in the past created easy-to-print templates of faces with the hair already erased so all the students tin can only jump into drawing. At that fourth dimension, inspired by the masters, I used former classic portraits as the templates, which were fun, but also very much limited to old white people. Mona Lisa and Van Gogh, for case.

Today's earth obviously needs a wider point of view, and with that in mind I created this template that originated from a photo of a young girl that I found on the internet, I'm guessing from somewhere in Africa maybe? I love her beautiful face and straight gaze. Her age is probably closer to that of elementary students, and so she is more than relatable in that sense too.

If you need some ideas for connecting this projection to other lessons in your classroom, here are just a few:

History of Headwraps. Once a symbol of slavery, they are now beingness reclaimed by black women.
Kente cloth. It originated in Ghana, and every attribute of their pattern designs are meant to communicate something.
Gees Curve. A small blackness community in Alabama that has a history of creating quilting masterpieces.
Artist Tawny Chatmon. A contemporary artist who makes gorgeous paintings from photos that celebrate black babyhood.
Artist Kehinde Wiley. A portrait painter, famous for his highly naturalistic style, who painted the portraits of the Obamas.

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