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Portrait Mix and Match (Printables and examples)
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BIG IDEA: I CAN create a series of drawings and prompts based on basic mathematical knowledge and create realistic portraits while learning how to draw better.
Kehinde Wiley: Kehinde Wiley is a famous African-American painter. He creates hyper-realistic portraits with complex backgrounds. Wiley is especially known for his commissioned portrait of President Barack Obama, which is displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C., USA. Kehinde's works address the politics of race and power in art, drawing attention to the pervasive lack of representation of people of color in the art world. With black masculinity often framed as synonymous with fear and violence in the USA, his generous and vibrant portraits challenge viewers' preconceptions of their subjects and bring young men, and people, of color into the galleries and museums they are so woefully underrepresented in.
Chuck Close: Chuck Close is one of the most influential American artists of modern art and photo realism, known for his innovative conceptual portraiture, depicting his subjects, which are transposed from photographs, into visual data organized by gridded compositions. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, Close used art as a means of navigating a learning disability.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is proportion essential in recognizing a well organized portrait?
DESIGN PROCESS / KEY COMPONENTS:
1. Create a "before" portrait of yourself using provided image
2. Complete at least one "puzzle" - How shapes come together
3. Value study representing one value scale in black and gray and one in color
4. Sphere - One in black and gray and one in color
5. EXTRA - value packet extra handouts
6. Color map/line drawing on grid
7. Revision – no color/contour drawing
8. Final – with value and shading
Kehinde Wiley: Kehinde Wiley is a famous African-American painter. He creates hyper-realistic portraits with complex backgrounds. Wiley is especially known for his commissioned portrait of President Barack Obama, which is displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C., USA. Kehinde's works address the politics of race and power in art, drawing attention to the pervasive lack of representation of people of color in the art world. With black masculinity often framed as synonymous with fear and violence in the USA, his generous and vibrant portraits challenge viewers' preconceptions of their subjects and bring young men, and people, of color into the galleries and museums they are so woefully underrepresented in.
Chuck Close: Chuck Close is one of the most influential American artists of modern art and photo realism, known for his innovative conceptual portraiture, depicting his subjects, which are transposed from photographs, into visual data organized by gridded compositions. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, Close used art as a means of navigating a learning disability.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is proportion essential in recognizing a well organized portrait?
DESIGN PROCESS / KEY COMPONENTS:
1. Create a "before" portrait of yourself using provided image
2. Complete at least one "puzzle" - How shapes come together
3. Value study representing one value scale in black and gray and one in color
4. Sphere - One in black and gray and one in color
5. EXTRA - value packet extra handouts
6. Color map/line drawing on grid
7. Revision – no color/contour drawing
8. Final – with value and shading
KEY KNOWLEDGE:
- Learn various techniques and styles of portrait artists Kehinde Wiley and Chuck Close.
- Focus on the style and techniques of how artists use photo references while working from a grid system and systematically breaks apart a structure to be able to see the “whole” picture.
- How to apply proper proportions to accurately depict the human form and the steps to create a self-portrait that closely resembles physical attributes and aptly communicates your personality.
- The Grid Method: low-tech way to reproduce and/or enlarge an image that you want to paint or draw. The grid method can be a fairly time-intensive process, depending on how large and detailed your painting will be. While the process is not as quick as using a projector or transfer paper, it does have the added benefit of helping to improve your drawing and observational skills.
- The grid method involves drawing a grid over your reference photo, and then drawing a grid of equal ratio on your work surface (paper, canvas, wood panel, etc). Then you draw the image on your canvas, focusing on one square at a time, until the entire image has been transferred. Once you're finished, you simply erase or paint over the grid lines, and start working on your painting, which will be now be in perfect proportion!
- How to gain value and self-worth and understand that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.
- How to compare and contrast the merit of your work using your before drawing to a final drawing and recognize and reflect on the effects of arranging visual characteristics. How has your art improved over a series of practical applications? How can you apply these applications to all areas of learning?
- How to participate in critiques and identify strengths and areas needing improvement in one another’s work.
- Develop vocabulary: Self-portrait, proportion, composition, scale, ratio, golden mean, tone, shade, identity.
- Use line and shape to represent facial structures and implied textures.
- Discover other portrait artists and their unique techniques. Chuck Close, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt.
Graphite pencils have 20 degrees of hardness. This can be confusing for drawing beginners. Which pencil is right for you?
- H represents the hardness of a pencil, the higher the number, the lighter the mark. These pencils are good for drawing and technical work. Their lines are more grey than black.
- B Represents the blackness of a pencil, these pencils are soft - the higher the number the darker the mark. These pencils are very good to demonstrate shading and rich contrast.
- F represents the firmness of a pencil and is in the mid range of the graphite scale.
- H B represents hard black and is in the mid range of the graphite scale.
- Most #2 pencils that you write with are an HB mid range pencil.
Examples below of value gradations: