Torn Paper Masterpieces

Every year, the 8th grade students blow me away with their details and craftsmanship on the torn paper project.  Students have to study a picture to find the changes in value in a portrait and match those changes with a selection of construction papers which are then torn and pasted on the portrait.  A transparency is placed over the original photograph and the details of the face are traced.  This is laid over their completed torn paper portraits and VOILA.....these beautiful beautiful masterpieces.