The Boy with the Pink Hair Portraits

I found this lesson on another art teachers blog...http://grichart.blogspot.com/, but she only had teacher examples posted.  Still thought the illustrations from the book looked adorable so I found it in Barnes and Noble.  it's based on a book called The Boy With the Pink Hair by Perez Hilton.

I attempted the portraits with 3rd grade and they came out great.  We called them "Cartoon Style".  I did a step by step of a basic face shape and gave them two choices for styles of the eyes. Some kids were hesitant about changing their hair color and others dove right into something wacky.  The background is a watercolor wash over construction paper crayon circles.  It was a little tough to keep them from applying the black deadly watercolor too heavy.  I constantly circled the room to make sure they were adding tons of water to it.  Overall they really enjoyed the story too!