The Eyes are the Window to the Soul

This is the final digital project I will do in eighth grade Contemporary Art this year. We began this project with a discussion about the saying, "the eyes are the window to the soul."  We discussed the idea that who we really are on the inside is not always the side that our classmates see.  For the assignment, I took the students' pictures of their eyes myself and they were instructed to collage at least 5 additional images on top of that as well as draw on their images with at least 3 different brushstrokes.  We discussed the idea that in a good composition, some elements will scream, some elements will talk, and some elements will whisper.  The eyes need to be the element that screams and from there the students will decide the elements that scream and the elements that whisper.  I have to say that this is by far my favorite digital project that the students have done all year.

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