Portraiture
How can I represent the intangible about myself or someone else in this portrait?
Studio outcome: 1 large or series of smaller paintings that creatively shed light on the unseen aspects of who you are or who someone else is.
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Essential Questions:
Video profiles on Portrait painters
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Magic from Jesse Brass on Vimeo. |
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The Self Practice from Cameron Bryson on Vimeo.
TIANBING LI - ARTIVI from FMF on Vimeo.
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COLOR THEORY
You will create a page ILLUSTRATING the concepts below. This means you need to visually support the words below with illustrations with color.
Color vocabulary:
Define these terms in writing AND visually with color! Hue Saturation Value Greyscale Tints Tones Shades Warm Colors Cool Colors |
Primary Colors Secondary Colors Complementary Colors Tertiary Colors Color Harmony/Schemes: Monochromatic Color Scheme Complementary Color Scheme Split-Complementary Color Scheme Triadic Color Scheme Analogous Color Scheme |
Artwork analysis-You should have 2 completed.
Look over the colors used in your chosen paintings.
Look over the colors used in your chosen paintings.
- Visit the Adobe Color CC website and UPLOAD your painting image. What do you notice about the color scheme? Take a screenshot.
- Address color temperature, mood, color intensity, any color contrast? Be specific and practice the color vocabulary!
Groups of 3
Share 1 of your artwork analysis with your group on your laptop.
Additional information:
-What about this artist’s style/technique/composition might you borrow?
-Who will be your SUBJECT for your portrait painting? Someone you know or someone you don’t know.
Which of the 3 essential questions will you use as the starting point for your own portrait painting?
Share 1 of your artwork analysis with your group on your laptop.
Additional information:
-What about this artist’s style/technique/composition might you borrow?
-Who will be your SUBJECT for your portrait painting? Someone you know or someone you don’t know.
Which of the 3 essential questions will you use as the starting point for your own portrait painting?
- How do portraits convey authority?
- How can portraits make a broader social statement?
- How can we represent the intangible (the unseen) in portraits?
Project Sequence:
Phase 1: Learning about portrait painters/Ideaweb
Phase 2: Portrait Photography/Media Testing
Phase 3: Idea Development and final plan
Phase 4: Final Project
Phase 2: Portrait Photography/Media Testing
Phase 3: Idea Development and final plan
Phase 4: Final Project
Phase 1: Learning about portrait painters
You will select 2 portrait painters from our pinterest board. These should be artists you are DRAWN to because of their color and style.
You will select a painting from each of the 2 artists you select.
Analyze the painting based on the Elements of Art and Principles of Design (handout).
You will select a painting from each of the 2 artists you select.
Analyze the painting based on the Elements of Art and Principles of Design (handout).
Famous portrait painters to investigate, choose 2:
Kwangho Shin
Alice Neel
Amy Sherald
Andrew Salgado
David Hockney
Lucian Freud
Alex Katz
Chuck Close
Gustave Courbet
Jen Mann
Hung Liu
Michael Shapcott
Tamara de Lempicka
Frida Kahlo
Otto Dix
Danny O'Connor
Francoise Nielly
Howard Tangye
Carl White
Max Gasparini
Anna Bocek
Kehinde Wiley
Li Tianbing
Alexa Meade
Choose 2 artists from this list above, or elsewhere (not DeviantArt), that you would like to investigate (1 page for each artist in your sketchbook).
Keep in mind, you will use 1 of these artists as your influence in terms of colour scheme or painting technique for your mini study coming up in Phase 2.
IdeaWeb-5 unseen aspects of me (or a person you know)
Think about cultural roots, layers of history, family, personality, memories etc.
Phase 2: Self Portrait Photography/2 self portrait practice
Self Portrait Photography
You should have 10 photos of yourself that are edited and ready for use. Look at HW assignments for details.
Tips on taking self portraits with your camera
You should have 10 photos of yourself that are edited and ready for use. Look at HW assignments for details.
Tips on taking self portraits with your camera
Media Testing-OIL and ACRYLIC/mixed media
Practice 1 of 2
--Oil Painting Self Portrait Practice- Monochromatic
Sketching, then painting....
Sketching Steps:
-Write name and class on the BACK of the cardboard!
Use 1 of the A4 black and white photos of your face
Use a cardboard piece that has been primed with gesso
With HB pencil, draw quadrants on BOTH your photo and the cardboard-keep your lines light!
-Begin sketching out each quadrant paying attention to the MAIN LINES- no shading, just a rough outline.
-pay attention to PROPORTIONS.
-Look at your work from a DISTANCE to really see if you captured proportions and ANGLES of your features that match up or are close to the photograph
Oil painting Steps:
You will receive your own brush-put tape on end it and write your initials. This will be kept in your drawer.
Newspaper on table
-paper palette sheet inside paint tray
-monochromatic-so white and black
------OPTIONAL: blue OR red to mix in.-TAKE VERY LITTLE PAINT!
--Oil Painting Self Portrait Practice- Monochromatic
Sketching, then painting....
Sketching Steps:
-Write name and class on the BACK of the cardboard!
Use 1 of the A4 black and white photos of your face
Use a cardboard piece that has been primed with gesso
With HB pencil, draw quadrants on BOTH your photo and the cardboard-keep your lines light!
-Begin sketching out each quadrant paying attention to the MAIN LINES- no shading, just a rough outline.
-pay attention to PROPORTIONS.
-Look at your work from a DISTANCE to really see if you captured proportions and ANGLES of your features that match up or are close to the photograph
Oil painting Steps:
You will receive your own brush-put tape on end it and write your initials. This will be kept in your drawer.
Newspaper on table
-paper palette sheet inside paint tray
-monochromatic-so white and black
------OPTIONAL: blue OR red to mix in.-TAKE VERY LITTLE PAINT!
Below is an example using the technique we will follow below-
ACRYLIC and MIXED MEDIA on top of a photograph.
ACRYLIC and MIXED MEDIA on top of a photograph.
Painting below by Jenny Saville-notice her use of warm and cool tints and tones
Practice 2 of 2-Acrylic and Mixed Media
--Painting and layering texture on top of our photograph
1. COLLAGING with TEXTURE
Step 1-layering some texture using Matte Medium as adhesive
We will use: newspaper, rice paper, gauze, magazine cut outs
First, you will need to tear and cut small pieces of the materials above to put on top of about 1/3 of your photograph.
AIM to match the values of the materials with your FACE-this will make a big difference.
Place all the pieces on top of your photo to see if it works.
Remember pieces need to be cut and torn into smaller bits to fit into parts of your face.
The pieces that are on the outer edge of the photo may be bigger and can go off the edge.
So VALUES and SIZE and SHAPE of the pieces are what to pay attention to before you glue with MATTE MEDIUM.
After gluing, let this fully dry before moving on to the painting process.
2. THE PAINTING PROCESS- acrylic paint and paint thinner
You need access to your ORIGINAL photo that you pasted on the cardboard. You will reprint this photo once you've edited it again on iphoto, picasa or any other image editing program.
There are a few ways to approach this:
1. keep it monochromatic (but not black and white....you must incorporate 1 color)
2. keep it neutral (browns, mauves, ochre etc)
3. saturate the color
4. Any other ideas?
--Painting and layering texture on top of our photograph
1. COLLAGING with TEXTURE
Step 1-layering some texture using Matte Medium as adhesive
We will use: newspaper, rice paper, gauze, magazine cut outs
First, you will need to tear and cut small pieces of the materials above to put on top of about 1/3 of your photograph.
AIM to match the values of the materials with your FACE-this will make a big difference.
Place all the pieces on top of your photo to see if it works.
Remember pieces need to be cut and torn into smaller bits to fit into parts of your face.
The pieces that are on the outer edge of the photo may be bigger and can go off the edge.
So VALUES and SIZE and SHAPE of the pieces are what to pay attention to before you glue with MATTE MEDIUM.
After gluing, let this fully dry before moving on to the painting process.
2. THE PAINTING PROCESS- acrylic paint and paint thinner
You need access to your ORIGINAL photo that you pasted on the cardboard. You will reprint this photo once you've edited it again on iphoto, picasa or any other image editing program.
There are a few ways to approach this:
1. keep it monochromatic (but not black and white....you must incorporate 1 color)
2. keep it neutral (browns, mauves, ochre etc)
3. saturate the color
4. Any other ideas?
Self Portrait Class Board
Everyone will complete a short analysis of a self-portrait to add to our class board.
Example below
portraitanalysis-example.docx |
Include Artist’s name/ title/ year / media
3 sentence snapshot of a favorite portrait painting
Come up with a claim and support with reasoning.
3 sentence snapshot of a favorite portrait painting
- List the formal element of art and principle of design that stands out immediately to you. Be as specific as possible.
- Choose 1 adjective to describe the MOOD in this piece and support with reasoning. Consider (if applicable): point of view, the gaze, color scheme, lighting, any significant details/symbols in background or foreground.
Come up with a claim and support with reasoning.
Initial Ideas
Pinterest Board-Figurative and Portraits for ideas!
Guiding Question:
How can we represent the INTANGIBLE in portraits?
You should have an IDEAWEB or list of ANSWERS to the questions of your subject for the portrait project (you or someone who is personally close to you)
Answer the questions below in your sketchbook:
1. -Who will be your subject?
2. -List out the 3 most important or significant aspects about this person that you are considering incorporating into your portrait? Be specific:
(1 example: My mother told me stories about growing up in Saigon in Vietnam. She speaks fondly of her walks to school as she would sometimes be alone and it would give her time to think (as she had a huge family with many siblings) I have old photos of my mother when she was young and could use this as a reference.)
3. How might you SHOW something intangible about your subject in an ABSTRACT and EXPRESSIVE way-through TEXTURE, COLOR, CONTRAST, SYMBOLISM ETC.
4. Sketch out 3 initial ideas incorporating your intangible aspect about YOU or your CHOSEN PERSON. Add a couple descriptive sentences explaining what would be included in your painting and why.
Phase 3: Final Plan
The Final Plan should include:
VISUALS:
-The final composition, in color (half an A4 page-the example below is a bit too small so make your final composition bigger)
-Map out your color scheme (this may be inspired by your artist inspiration) or informed by the mood you want to exude.
-Adobe Kuler site (to help you plan out your color scheme)
WRITTEN:
-What intangible aspects about you are you expressing in this self-portrait? What visual qualities will you use to express this?
-What is your current 6 word memoir? How has this informed the visual plan for your work?
-Who is your artist inspiration? (you can have more than 1) How has this artist's style inspired your project? Be explicit.
https://www.pinterest.com/aimeezart/figurative-and-portraits/
-What media will you work in? What will your layout be (multiple small pieces or 1 large piece)?
-What are your planned steps to manifest this idea? Write down your steps.
Below is an example of composition sketches on the left and a final plan on the right. Notice the balance of WORD and IMAGE.
VISUALS:
-The final composition, in color (half an A4 page-the example below is a bit too small so make your final composition bigger)
-Map out your color scheme (this may be inspired by your artist inspiration) or informed by the mood you want to exude.
-Adobe Kuler site (to help you plan out your color scheme)
WRITTEN:
-What intangible aspects about you are you expressing in this self-portrait? What visual qualities will you use to express this?
-What is your current 6 word memoir? How has this informed the visual plan for your work?
-Who is your artist inspiration? (you can have more than 1) How has this artist's style inspired your project? Be explicit.
https://www.pinterest.com/aimeezart/figurative-and-portraits/
-What media will you work in? What will your layout be (multiple small pieces or 1 large piece)?
-What are your planned steps to manifest this idea? Write down your steps.
Below is an example of composition sketches on the left and a final plan on the right. Notice the balance of WORD and IMAGE.
Phase 4: Final Project
Reminders as you begin:
Remember it is up to you how to present your expressive self-portrait.
-Use the Grid technique if it helps you. You can add a grid easily in Photoshop to your photo.
-If using the Grid on paper or canvas, sketch out your shapes with vine charcoal or pencil.
-You may also project your image from your laptop onto the board or wall and trace out the main shapes. This is a shortcut to help you draw all the proportions.
-Would it be best to do your background first? You need to decide.