The Many Faces of Goodrich

If you take a walk down the second grade hallway, you will find an explosion of color tacked to the wall, a beginning of the year art project brought to you by all 1st through 6th grade students at Goodrich.

Students drew monochromatic self portraits using varying colors of the rainbow, ROYGBIV, for this display. All students were tasked to use only one color(their table color) to create these self portraits. Students had the option of using markers, colored pencils, crayons, oil pastels, or chalk pastels to create their self portraits. They also learned the meaning of monochromatic as they worked with various shades of one color, for example some students used light green colored pencil mixed with dark green marker and blue-green crayon.

Once all students were finished with these monochromatic self portraits, they were hung on the wall together, resulting in an explosive collaborative artwork. When pieced together, you can see that each student’s portrait is extremely unique, even though many are using the same color and start from the same demonstration. Though I typically like to give students more freedom to choose their colors, sometimes working with a restraint is more of a challenge and results in more creativity, just like this project. The Many Faces of Goodrich display shows our children's originality and uniqueness, despite the sameness of color they used.