Structured Portrait
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Developing our mastery of skills and understanding of identity through the exploration of portraiture techniques.
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TASK: Structured Self-Portrait
Learn how to accurately measure, mark out and render the various parts of your face to create a realistic portrait drawing. Master techniques such as shading, blending and matching the tonal values and textures in your portrait.
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DEVICE:
Realism has been central to the role of the artist for thousands of years. Before the camera the artist was the sole creator of realistic imagery that reproduced reality.
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MATERIALS:
Portrait photo, HB & 4B pencils, ruler, rubber, tortillon.
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ARTISTS:
Diego Fazio, Hector Gonzales, Cath Riley.
Squashed Portrait
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Developing our mastery of skills and understanding of identity through the exploration of portraiture techniques.
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TASK: Squashed Portrait
Photocopy yourself and copy it onto black paper. Use white pencils to draw over the ghost image on the black paper adding highlights and light areas in a detailed way.
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DEVICE:
Traditionally artists start with a white background but many artists find that starting with a mid-tone or dark background makes darker images easier to produce (and cheaper!).
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MATERIALS:
Printer/scanner, white crayons, white paint.
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ARTISTS:
Carravaggio, Leonardo Da Vinci.
Fragmented Portrait
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Developing our mastery of skills and understanding of identity through the exploration of portraiture techniques.
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TASK: Fragmented Portrait
Experiment with ways of manipulating photographs to create portraits with interesting and unusual effects. Cut, twist and re-arrange photographs to make creative collage art.
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DEVICE:
Sometimes even the simplest manipulating can alter an image in very creative ways, changing its appearance, composition and sometimes even its meaning.
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MATERIALS:
Photos, scissors, glue stick, ruler, craft knife.
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ARTISTS:
David Hockney, Martin O'Neil, Jean Faucheur.
Experimental Portrait
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Developing our mastery of skills and understanding of identity through the exploration of portraiture techniques.
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TASK: Experimental Portrait
Use you imagination and creativity to manipulate and create a portrait using interesting and exciting techniques. You could find an inspirational artist to emulate or you could use your experimental powers to create something original.
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DEVICE:
There are an endless number of ways you can make a creative portrait...the limits are your imagination!
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MATERIALS:
Portrait photos, imagination, various art materials.
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ARTISTS:
Various artists...research and find them!
3D Bust
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Developing our mastery of skills and understanding of identity through the exploration of portraiture techniques.
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TASK: 3D Bust Sculpture
Manipulate a ball of clay into a clay head with character. First shape the head and then add the forms of the face, ears, hair and jawline. Use clay tools to add smaller details and textures.
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DEVICE:
Raw materials have been manipulated to create sculptures of humans for more than 25,000 years. Statues and sculptures are still made today to honour and commemorate people.
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MATERIALS:
Clay, clay tools, hessian mat, water pot, reference photos.
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ARTISTS:
Antony Gormley, Auguste Rodin.
