As part of exam week, you will be given a space of 100 minutes to work/complete a school wide art challenge. This year the focus will be on the genre of 'portraiture' and the questions you should consider is: 'How will you capture the personality of your subject?'. The details are explained in the slideshow below. Please take the time to read through the slides and start developing your ideas. Your work will be put on display for the end of term exhibition.
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Came across these pavement portraits made using mosaic tiles around the southbank.. Might make an interesting portrait project for students around the school premise.Would be good to link in some way to local history. A simple, but great idea to get students creating portraits with the limitations of the rectangle. These are by the illustrator Adam Murphy, who is worth looking at.
In this task, you will be creating an imaginary portrait made up of different faces using images that you have taken and edit them together in Adobe Photoshop. You will be working in response to the artists John Stezaker, who uses cut up postcards and photos of classic celebrities and film star. You can see some of his work below: You will need to edit your photographs in Adobe Photoshop using layers and the move and marquee tool to cut out shapes and move them around. Your teacher will give you a demonstration. If you have not got your own images, use some of these below: Belowis an example of how you could experiment with your own surrealist portraits using Photoshop:
A collage is a mixture of different pictures to make up a whole new scene. A collage can be on anything, but why not start with a collage about your family life. Choose a scene to depict such as family dinner time or a special event such as your last birthday. Using printed images found in magazines, newspapers and off the Internet, cut them up and recreate the scene. You can also add text using the headlines from newspapers to describe the situation or add dialogue/speech, or even a piece of poetry that conjures up the scene. Have a look at the video below for examples of how to create a collage at home: Examples of CollagesFor this task, pupils could look at how artists have interpreted portraiture through silhouettes. The Victorians created portraits through backlighting and tracing - see below: This technique can be tried out easily with a large sheet and overhead projector whilst the pupils outline the shape of the head and then paint with a fabric paint. Alternatively, it could be produced photographically. Photogram Silhouettes
Using cut out shapes of photocopies or photos of portraits (preferably from profile views), pupils create a photogram but half way through the exposure time they mask the paper with their cut out silhouette. The following examples were made like this and then toned. It is also possible to do such portraits as digital files using a scanner and photoshop, altering opacities on layers. In this painting task, you will be referring to great art masterpieces from the past and reinterpreting them using your own contemporary imagery to reflect current culture. 1. Start by researching a famous portrait painting that appeals to you. Try looking through the Google Art Project set up by Google, which has examples of work stored by many of the world's most famous public galleries. Collect a number of examples and stick in your sketchbook with the name of the artist, title and date it was made. 2. Imagine how you could add a contemporary/modern twist to the painting. Think about props, hairstyles, facial make-up or jewellery and accessories that are relevant to today. Note down and sketch a few ideas in your sketchbook to refer to. 3. Take some photographs of yourself or a friend in the same pose and lighting set up, which can then be used as a replacement for the original model. You could use Adobe Photoshop to superimpose your new model into place. Alternatively, print out your photos and create some collages where you try different juxtapositions. Remember that your remastered studies need to contain enough information to make the original painting recognisable. 4. Enlarge your most interesting composition study onto a large canvas. You could use an Overhead Projector (OHP) to enlarge it or a grid depending on how much assistance you require. 5. Start painting and use the same colour palette as the original painting. Extension
This project would work equally well as a photography brief, where closer attention could be paid to composition, lighting, poses, costume and props. Produce a series of tonal drawing studies or paintings based on yourself or a member of your family growing up. Use photos taken at different periods of time that show the changes. Try to choose images that have a similar point of view and framing I.e close up. To present, you could mount your photos in old frames or those found in £1 shops. See examples below:
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