Pirate Portraits

During our Art and DT sessions, we have been working towards creating our very own Pirate portraits. 

Firstly, we used different sized strips of card to create a pirate themed background. We used colours that were popular in Pirate books we have read. We had to create a repeated pattern of our choice to create the desired effect.

After this, we were ready to draw our self-portraits. We used mirrors to look carefully at our facial features and followed tutorials on how to draw with added detail.

Once this stage was complete, we added different media to our portraits to add colour, texture and a 3D element. We used materials such as: wool, cotton, string and card to enhance our features. 

Our final part was to add a slide mechanism but we had not seen many before, so we looked at a range of early slide mechanisms in the library. There were some books that had different slide mechanisms so we decided to use a simple lever to create a moving tongue.

We were so pleased with the final product and we are all so proud of how our work turned out.