The Portrait Party

Hello portrait party-goers, An afternoon with my kids inspired me to design this shirt. You can win one! All you have to do is: Follow THIS LINK to Threadless.com . Log in with your f...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2012/08/win-this-shirt-by-rama-hughes.html

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a rising art star when Andy Warhol took this picture of him (above). Andy Warhol, on the other hand, was a bona fide celebrity. Jean-Michel was so starstruck that he...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2011/09/jean-michel-basquiat-andy-warhol.html

christine and i found time between the feeding, burping, rocking, and pampering of our newborn baby daughter to have a little portrait party last night. and, yes, i am completely bald now.

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2011/08/christine-castro-hughes-rama-hughes.html

The Portrait Party is featured this month in the April 2011 issue of SchoolArts Magazine! If this is your first time visiting this site, I'm sad to say that it's not as happening as it used ...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2011/03/portrait-party-in-schoolarts-magazine.html

Kristine Johncox set up this portrait party bulletin board for her elementary students to share their portraits. She wanted to start an interactive display where kids could complete enjoy port...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2011/02/portrait-party-bulletin-board.html

way back when i started this blog, i invited everyone i knew to start a portrait party of their own. i'm happy to say that julia kay took it so far as to start her own online portrait party ov...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2010/06/julie-kays-portrait-party.html

every time i complete one of these student portrait parties, a new wave of them crashes down like a tidal wave. drawing one student (always belatedly) reminds a dozen more that they want to tr...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2010/01/lslds-mr-hughes.html

here is a truly gorgeous swap between n.c. mallory (portrayed above) and marty harris (portrayed below).

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2010/01/nc-mallory-marty-harris.html

Before I colored his portrait, my drawing partner in this portrait party asked if he could go over all my purple lines in black. "It's yours when I'm done with it," I answered, "But what have ...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/12/mr-hughes-ynzsblt.html

"You made me look like a grown up." "You made me look like a rubber action figure." I'd buy that action figure by the way. (Attention teachers: If you are interested in hosting a portrait ...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/mr-hughes-oshrty.html

Melissa Woodland and David Gran organized a portrait party for their students through Art Education 2.0 . Melissa's Art 1 Students were paired up with David's art students from a high school...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/international-portrait-party.html

Kendra Farrell held an "in house" portrait party to get her art 1 class warmed up for taking risks and having fun. They did!! You can see the rest of the portraits on flickr .

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/kendra-farrells-art-1-class.html

this year, i added a special offer to my annual art room portrait party. if a student draws me in color, i will draw them in color.

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/yhdt-mr-hughes.html

For as long as I have been teaching, I have made this offer to my students: If you draw me (outside of class), I will draw you. At the moment, I owe portraits to about twenty kids but that jus...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/ylhn-mr-hughes.html

the portrait party has been snoozing ever since my baby boy was born but that didn't stop marty (portrayed above) and neta (portrayed below) from submitted this fantastic swap.

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/marty-harris-neta-saar.html

i know it's been a long time between posts but the portrait party is alive and well offline. in addition to the ongoing portrait exchanges that my students and i have made all year, the parti...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-center-for-kids.html

the portrait party is two years old this month! the portrait above was drawn by my sister, lali shaw!

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/happy-birthday-party-portrait-party.html

it looks like dale (portrayed above) was on a rampage of portraits! this swap with lucy is one of several he sent out at the same time.

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/lucy-knisley-dale.html

julie and her son, xavier , had a lovely evening. he helped her make meatballs for supper and then they had fun drawing each other. xavier ended up going to bed very late because julie can’...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/julie-oakley-xavier-oakley.html

my wife and i moved this month and, although we love our new home, it hasn't had internet access until this afternoon. perfect timing actually because, just this afternoon, i received a beauti...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/minnesota-center-for-book-arts.html

like whitney said last year, "learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all." so, in honor of valentine's day, the portrait party will celebrate the greatest love of all with an entire mo...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/self-portrait-party.html

i originally drew this self-portrait as an example for my middle school students' animation class. i liked it so much though that i adapted it as an example for d.i.y. notepads and stationar...

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/rama-hughes_28.html

this is lucie 's contribution to the portrait party. lucie was born in france, lives in madrid, and runs a trilingual blog that you might enjoy!

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/lucie-geffre.html

bethany made her self-portrait to hone her photoshop painting chops.

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/bethany-vanderputten.html

angie created this self-portrait with cut paper. good job, scherenschnitter !

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/angie-pickman.html