Portraiture

• Project: Self-Image

• Self-image fascinates many artists. Chuck Close makes large-scale self-portraits. Gary Hill creates film installation work, recording close-up self-portrait details. Rembrandt painted himself over many years as a visual biography and Gerhard Richter uses photographs to construct his impersonal mysterious portraits, Henri Matisse and Nielly Francoise used colour and the direction of brush strokes to create emotion. Picasso looked at a person from different views and put them all together to create a more personal and truthful portrait of the person (Cubism). Greg Hanson - collage artist uses layers to produce images personal portraits. Pop artist Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were influenced by popular culture, comics and famous people.

• Research appropriate artists and produce your own work in response to Self-Image. 

Task 2: Artist research (1 week) :  Research Portraiture artists & produce a visual brainstorm. Click on the  Link below for PowerPoint presentation with different portrait artists for you to look at and then further investigate: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jWdxulU6D3XDiwBAwnsDqiYqGqZ0IMgC 

• Brainstorm issues related to portraiture/ self image (anger, nostalgia, happiness, sadness, surprise, past and present, distortion, who am I? etc...) 

• Comment on what you like or find interesting when looking at the artists works.

• Look at the following link and answer the 10 questions based on the artist painting you select:

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bvJAgHbO6ISzo8rxEcXdvwWTPWRhqGqx 

• Use the following link to access  a work sheet with information on how to analyse art:

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b5LgMHUJls7ugMm_hSZQjd6LwXXyRxlb 

Task 3 : Turn your Julie Cockburn study into a Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein painting.

We will be looking at the work of American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and selecting one of your Julie Cockburn collage response to develop into a Roy Lichtenstein Pop painting.

You will take a photo of one of the 6 responses that you have done of artist Julie Cockburn and upload to the App Clips and use the comic filter to posterise the image.

You will then pass the image to Procreate and upload the posterised image. 

You will then work in layers and focus on a black outline drawing in one of the layers, using thin and thick lines.

You can then have another layer for colour and another layer for the dots and directional line.

Once the image is done we will print it out in A4 and then trace the image and paint it.

Key Elements of Lichtenstein's Style:

1. Bold Colours: Lichtenstein used vibrant, eye-catching colours in his artwork.

2. Ben-Day Dots: This printing technique, adapted from commercial printing, became a signature element in his paintings.

3. Thick Outlines: His figures and objects were often defined by strong, black outlines.

4. Comic Book Imagery: Many of his works were based on or inspired by comic book panels.

5. Text Integration: Lichtenstein frequently incorporated text into his artworks. 

Task 4: Photos and drawings.  (1 week)

Part 1:Portrait Photos of yourself from the front profile, side profile, top/ birds eye view profile and from beneath looking up profile.  

Part 2: Use the 4 different portrait photos and produce a drawing for each of the photos. You can use the screen of your laptop or tablet to use as a light box. You can also print out your photos to A4 size and trace them on a window of your house. (2 weeks) 

The drawings will be done in a different media:

1, line pencil drawing

2, Shaded pencil drawing

3, Pen drawing with cross hatching

4, Use one coloured pencil of your choice and shade with different tones (monotone) 

You might also want to use digital drawing.

Task 5:  Experimental drawing: Follow the instructions and develop a portrait by piercing one of your images. (1 week)

Task 6: Experimental drawing: Follow the instructions and develop a portrait by shading squares using one of your images. (1 week)

Task 7: Development of ideas for a final response/ painting or mixed media final piece.

develop your ideas further and  produce a response using the images you have used for the project by; 

• combining one or more artists with your own ideas.

• developing your own ideas.

• Remember to review your Initial brainstorm and use some of the issues related to portraiture/ self image (anger, nostalgia, happiness, sadness, surprise, past and present, distortion, who am I? or any other crazy idea you might have. Document your ideas through drawing and annotations. You might want to develop some ides/ compositions using digital drawings and layering of images digitally.  

• Start to produce design compositions with the collected images.

1. Overlap

2. Repeat and change size

3. Tell a story

4. Put shapes on top of your design (circles, diagonal lines, cross, etc…)

5. Political or social issues.

You can come up with other designs. The more you investigate or develop ideas, the better the final outcome will be. Produce 6 ideas.

Task 8: Development of final idea/ composition for a final response/ painting or mixed media final piece.

Now your at the stage that you have chosen 1 of your 6 ideas based on your brainstorm. You now have to develop that idea further and consider the context of what your trying to say within your response.

Remember Your work can be realistic or non realistic, its up to you!!!! Look at the artists below to get ideas.

 Develop your idea using annotational drawings and produce at least 4 stages of development from your initial chosen idea once you know the idea and what you want to say in your final response. 

1.You can consider artist influence on the style and technique that they use and add to your final response in one of the stages. 

2. review your initial six ideas and bring elements from some of the ideas to your chosen idea to develop the composition. 

3.use some of the initial development concepts like: Overlap Repeat and change size Tell a story Put shapes on top of your design (circles, diagonal lines, cross, etc…) Political or social issues.

‌Try to avoid doing a portrait in the center of the paper and think of ways to make your composition better. You might need to take some more photos of your self or research images that you want to bring into your composition to help you put your message across. 

Remember the background is as important as your foreground images when you develop your composition for the final response 

‌ Look at the work of the following artists to get ideas (use in the development stages of your final response): ‌ 

• Art and text: barbara kruger- https://www.google.com/search?q=barbara+kruger+art&safe=strict&rlz=1C1GCEU_enES858ES858&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi844a4w_npAhVEyxoKHZ4HAOIQ_AUoAXoECBwQAw&biw=1366&bih=657 ‌

• Jean Michel Basquiat: https://www.google.com/search?q=basquiat+portraits&tbm=isch&hl=en&safe=strict&chips=q:basquiat+portraits&rlz=1C1GCEU_enES858ES858&safe=strict&hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwjpx8LYzPnpAhVNARQKHT4bCSsQ3VZ6BAgBEBU&biw=1349&bih=657 ‌ 

• Micheal Craig Martin: https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+craig+martin+portraits&safe=strict&rlz=1C1GCEU_enES858ES858&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYyNf0zPnpAhVfAWMBHWkHCrMQ_AUoAXoECBEQAw&biw=1366&bih=657 ‌ 

Be brave and creative, but show through drawing and brief annotations how you have develop the composition to your final response. Review what you initially thought your idea would be like and comment on how it has developed. ‌ Next lesson we will look at how you have developed your idea and see how you can improved it if it's needed. Remember that you can use Apps or Software programs like Gimp to develop your compositions if you want to. ‌ 

Your final response will be done on an A2 or A1 sheet of paper, unless you want to get your own canvas