Self Portraits Inspired by Native American Spirits

I absolutely love this project! Web Design is such a relevant course nowadays -- we do so much on the Internet; from writing, socializing, creating, and working, the web is vital to our everyday lives. Right now my students are learning HTML & CSS coding and soon we'll be moving onto building apps.

This self-portrait project, however, tasked students with researching Native American spirits and then choosing their own spirit to encompass in a self-portrait. We learned about surrealism from artists like Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall. Students learned advanced photoshopping techniques used by professional photo retouchers. You can see the quality in these self-portraits.

Students also learned about file types and their relative sizes, differentiating between pngs and jpegs and also how high resolution differs from low resolution. Which spirit would you be?!