Surrealist Collage Portrait

I got this lesson idea from the Becker Middle School Art blog. students really had fun with this one.  They were encouraged to be as wierd as possible.  They were asked to cut out a face (either human or animal) from a magazine.  Then they glued the face ( no hair or clothing) to a piece of paper.  Next they drew hair and clothing.  They outlined that with black sharpie and put a color wash on the whole paper.  This was accomplished using crayons markers.  They drew an outline with the markers and then used water and a brush to smear the color into the shape.
Many of these made me laugh out loud.  Good comic relief for the beginning of the end of the year!