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Painting is nice, but needs a background pattern. Next!
Quick overview
Quick overview
What is required for level 3 work?
What is required for level 3 work?
Use the grid technique to recreate the portrait into a larger scale
Use 5 levels of value/shade in the portrait
Create a pattern for the background of 3+ colors
Provide original image, final image in portfolio, and a writeup why you chose to create the art they way you did. - Why did you choose this person?- Why did you choose this pattern?- What to do want to project from the portrait? Explain how you did that.
What is makes a level 4?
What is makes a level 4?
Your tones/value shapes are crisp and defined
The pattern has meaning to you, either personally or artistically (hint, use the E's & P's )
Pattern is richly done with many colors
Your Task:
Your Task:
Monochromatic Value with Pattern
Monochromatic Value with Pattern
Using a digital filter to posterize an image of a person you know, or yourself. Transfer the image to canvas/paper and paint using a monochromatic color scheme with a complimentary pattern background.
Using a digital filter to posterize an image of a person you know, or yourself. Transfer the image to canvas/paper and paint using a monochromatic color scheme with a complimentary pattern background.
Monochromatic painting with added pattern. Win!
Introduction to the Lesson
Introduction to the Lesson
Talk and slideshow
It's everyone's favorite slideshow window! This time discussing the "Who's" and 'Why" of portraiture.
Demonstration:
Transfer Your Art, make it LARGER with Grids
Demonstration:
Transfer Your Art, make it LARGER with Grids
A demo on how to prep your image with grids to enlarge your image.
Materials:
Materials:
Pencil, letter size paper, ruler, bigger paper (if you don't have big paper, cut open paper bag, wrapping paper, or cardboard), and anything to color with. If you have them, acrylic paints, brushes, canvas, pencils of varying pencil lead hardness.
Some notes...
Some notes...
Use a photo of yourself or someone you personally know.
Use a ruler
Grid out Top, Bottom, Left, and Right axises
When sketching out the portrait in the monochromatic shapes. DRAW THE SHAPES, do not draw what you know- what eye, nose, mouth look like. Draw the shapes
You can use pencil or pen if paints are not available.
Do try to get color for the background pattern.
Must be bigger than what you printed. You are welcome to go crazy big, but you still have to finish it.
Draw/paint out your value scale. In 5 blocks, what is the darkest to lightest values/tones you will be using? And stick to that palette.
Start thinking of your background pattern while doing the portrait. It saves time.
Vocabulary used in this lesson:
Vocabulary used in this lesson:
Portrait art captures the personality, likeness and even mood of a person in a painting, a drawing, photograph, sculpture, or another medium, with the face as the main focus.
Value -- the range of light and dark within either neutrals or colors. Black is at one extreme, white at the other.
Patterns are constructed by repeating or echoing the elements of an artwork to communicate a sense of balance, harmony, contrast, rhythm or movement.
Monochromatic painting is one created using only one color or hue.
Posterize print or display (a photograph or other image) using only a small number of different tones.
Tint & ShadeThese are terms to describe how a color varies from its original hue. If white is added, the lighter version of the color is called a tint of the color. On the other hand, if black is added the, darker version of the color is called a shade of the color.
Hue refers to the dominant Color Family of the specific color we're looking at. White, Black and Grey are never referred to as a Hue.
1.Convert your chosen image to Black&White https://blackandwhite.imageonline.co/
2. Convert to Posterize. Set for 5 levels https://posterize.imageonline.co/
3. Print it up.
4. Draw a grid on it. Tip - use numbers on axis, letters on the other axis. Will make understanding your coordinates easier when redrawing it to a bigger scale.
5. Pencil out a a grid of your larger paper/canvas. Use 3/4 inch squares. Or larger if you have the space. Again, letters on the horizontal, numbers on the vertical
6. Match your coordinates and sketch out your shapes of value/shade/tine
7. Make your palette. Layout out 5 value blocks for eac level in the posterize. 1 being white, or the lightest 5 being black, or darkest of our hue.
8. Color in your shapes according to their value/tone.
9. Paint in your surrounding pattern.
Convert your chosen image to Black&White https://blackandwhite.imageonline.co/
2. Convert to Posterize. Set for 5 levels https://posterize.imageonline.co/
3. Print it up.
4. Draw a grid on it. Tip - use numbers on axis, letters on the other axis. Will make understanding your coordinates easier when redrawing it to a bigger scale.
5. Pencil out a a grid of your larger paper/canvas. Use 3/4 inch squares. Or larger if you have the space. Again, letters on the horizontal, numbers on the vertical
6. Match your coordinates and sketch out your shapes of value/shade/tine
7. Make your palette. Layout out 5 value blocks for each level in the posterize. 1 being white, or the lightest 5 being black, or darkest of our hue.
8. Color in your shapes according to their value/tone.
9. Paint in your surrounding pattern.
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Artist, Kehendi Wiley, Portrays Power in Portraiture
Artist, Kehendi Wiley, Portrays Power in Portraiture
An artist who is taking the portrait world by storm is Kehinde Wiley. He puts a classical spin on his contemporary subjects. In his works, he gives power to a person who ordinarily would not have clout or influence. He places his subject in the pose from a classic painting. The glory, power and prestige once reserved only for royalty, biblical heroes, and saints, is transferred to modern black men and women wearing everyday clothing. His paintings fuse the past and present in ways that force us to confront our notions of wealth, importance, race, and gender. As for his richly pattern background, Wiley says "I take the figure out of its original environment and place it in something completely made up. Most of the backgrounds I end up using are sheer decorative devices. Things that come from things like wallpaper or the architectural façade ornamentation of a building, and in a way it robs the painting of any sense of place or location, and it’s located strictly in an area of the decorative. "
https://www.kehindewiley.com/faq.html https://www.artsy.net/artist/kehinde-wiley
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