8th/7th grade micrography portraits

7th and 8th grade girls learned about micrography, images made from text. Students learned about value (the lightness and darkness of an image) and learned to create value with text, either by adding variation of size, distance and font of text.  They also used decorative text in the background to describe themselves. Some of their descriptions are easy to read and some students made their words into a pattern-- see if you can read them all!

I am so impressed with these portraits, and I think you will be as well!

Micrography with 7th Grade

Mrs. Moore's 7th grade homeroom learned that micrography is text arranged to create a visual image. These 7th graders created Micrography drawings of a subject of their choice, using words that define or describe the objects they drew. Their goal was to create an image using only text and have a variety of text and values in their drawings. Some students enjoyed it so much, they continue to use micrography in their weekly sketchbook homework.