Article · Gwenn Seemel
High School Art Lesson Plan for Surreal Self-portraiture and Social Emotional Learning
By Gwenn Seemel
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
A practicing painter's own lesson plan for surreal self-portraiture: students study her Everything's Fine series without titles, then build an inspiration list of animals, objects and emotions to translate an inner feeling into symbolic dreamlike imagery instead of a literal likeness.
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