Collage Portraiture Gives Students The Opportunity To Learn The Following:
Experiment combining multiple kinds of mixed media such as colored pencil, pen & ink, acrylic paint, along with any number of found elements such as fabric, yarn, found images, toys, buttons, beads, etc.
Create a dynamic composition using leading lines, color, texture, and mixed elements
Further understand how to effectively create the structure of the face
Communicate an art genre or personal meaning using combined elements
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I WILL BE ABLE TO:
Combine multiple kinds of mixed media such as colored pencil, pen & ink, acrylic paint, along with any number of found elements such as fabric, yarn, found images, toys, buttons, beads, etc.
Create a dynamic composition using leading lines, color, texture, and mixed elements
Understand how to effectively create the structure of the face
Communicate an art genre or personal meaning using combined elements and have excellent craftsmanship
Below are some examples of student collage portraits. They can be realistic or stylized but the elements need to guide the veiwer's eye to the face. They should be connected ideas. You can unite things via color such as in Uma's and Jesse's portraits or use guiding rays or lines like in Jesse's and Liam's portraits. More Notable Collage Artists examples are first.
UMA
Notice that Uma painted different strips of color for her hair and then cut them out and pasted them with cartoon elements that she drew and painted around the face that she painted. She also cut magazines up for elements of color. You can use anything you think is interesting such as buttons, yarn, other found objects like concert tickets, stamps, etc.
LIAM
Liam used painted parts like the cogs, the background and part of the face. He also used yarn, photos and cut magazine elements. Liam's clearly tells a story about how we are controlled by technology or social media.
JESSE
Jesse created a very stylized portrait from looking at the work of artist Henri Matisse. Notice how she used guiding lines, (rays,) that point the collage elements to the face. I like the funny googly eyes, buttons, flowers and drawn flowers as well as the watercolor and pen and ink elements. Everything goes together because of color and the rays. It is unfortunate that I did not photograph it better.
Decide on an Art Genre or Style (we talked about this in class. You can click on the side menu and go to any of the art and design resource sites to find one. We talked about and looked at Art Nouveau, Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and modern collage artists as well as how to cartoon
Create ephemera for the elements surrounding the face by creatingcartoons, drawings and elements using multiple kinds of mixed media such as watercolor, colored pencil, pen & ink, acrylic paint, along with finding any number of found elements such as fabric, yarn, found images, toys, buttons, beads, etc.
Create the face using any variety of methods, ie. tracing then using colored pencil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink, or cut elements
Hot glue elements to board or use elmers glue depending on whick one Robinson tells you is best to use for each element to get a perfectly flat and goo-free application
Consider the frame and create one making sure the board is at least 2 inches all the way around from the edge of the collage itself
Craftsmanship really matters, so pay attention to how you glue