Paper Bag Portraits

Let's face it this quarantine has presented us with an opportunity to be creative. While looking for regular household items to use for art making, I found that a brown paper bag is a great size/ shape for a portrait study. It also has the effect of working on a piece of toned brown paper which is a nice place to start for a portrait.

You can also collage into it with magasines. news papers, maps prochures. You could try to make this realistic or you could exaggerate proportions. You could also like Picasso use multiple profiles in one portrait.

When finished Students were invitied to use their acting skills to act out the paper bag portait expression like it was a mask.