Portrait

We had to do a portrait of one of our class mates.

First of all, we had to do it without watching the paper, only the person. In my case, I was portraiting Eugènia Delgado.

 

  

And in this one I did look the paper while I was looking at Eugènia. An aspect I want to highlight is that the teacher said that by looking at the person and doing this we were working our observating skills and our concentration, which is something the schools always look for! Why do we not do more art classes, then? That is a good question, isn't it? Maybe we would be too curious and creative? We should really start thinking why schools only focus in maths and languages and not in the different communicative ways that exist. Isn't painting a way of expressing ourselves as valued as writing? Why not?

                                 

                   

To compare these two results is really funny as you really see the difference between drawing and observing the paper and drawing and only observing the person.