Willie Mays Poster
School: Shutesbury Elementary School
City/State: Shutesbury, MA
Grade(s): 6
Format(s): Visual arts
Subject(s): Social Studies, Visual Arts
Project Overview
This poster-size portrait of Willie Mays was created by a 6th grade student at the Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a project on biographies, which included a living history museum.
This portrait is a stunning work of art that captures the unique spirit of the subject. The medium is art-quality colored pencil.
The original product’s dimensions are 18 by 28 inches.
How This Project Can Be Useful
- Exemplary model of a hand-drawn portrait
- Exemplary model of incorporating expression in rendering a face
- Model of attention to detail (e.g. Notice the details this student used in his lettering, including the baseballs to dot the “I”s)
- A simple idea, that when done well, can be very engaging both for students and for viewers of the posters
- Model of shading, light and composition