February 17

Adding Detail to Our Portraits

Janie's portrait

​Janie: I made a mouth. ...
I add to the picture what we did. The pink is my mouth and I’m singing.

Jane's portrait

​Jane: It’s a rainbow and balls. (It was Jane who had the idea to draw circles or balls on the original portrait drawing.) Her commentary on the balls: "They're bouncing.

Lucia's portrait

 Lucia: I’m adding skin.
Red and purple skin! So this is the rainbow skin. This is the arms. These are eyes. I got peach (skin). Melanie: Why did you choose to add Skin?
Lucia: Because I didn’t have skin.
Melanie: What's the next step for our portraits?
​Lucia: This is the clothing (blue and green). They're pajamas.

Sylvie's portrait

​Sylvie:  I’m making the Eiffel Tower. I’m just standing in Paris. I have so many books about Paris. I just want to fill up my picture.  I’m supposed to make fireworks in my picture. 

Audrey's portrait

Audrey: I’m adding rainbow skin. I added eyes, a nose, and a mouth...and skin, rainbow skin.
(Audrey's portrait was first and the children had not yet conceived nor entertained the addition of facial features until the third portrait. So, Audrey was able to add her own.) 

​Melanie: What’s rainbow skin.
Audrey: When you have rainbow (on) skin.
Sylvie: What rainbow skin means is it looks like it and there’s lots of color in it. Red, yellow, green, blue, dark grey… 
Lucia: Red and purple skin
Sylvie: Purple is in the rainbow too.
Janie: And pink!

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