1. Self Portraits-
1. Self PortraitsA portrait an artist makes usinghimself or herself as the subject.*Write everything that is underlined!**
2. Charcoal: Compressed burned wood used fordrawing. Charcoal is so fast, direct andresponsive, that it is amongst the leastinhibiting media. It can produce bold and fluidlines, and a great host of textures (dependingnot only on the artist's mark-making style, butalso on the paper), as well as subtlegradations for shadings.
3. Gestural drawing: used to block in the layoutof the basic shapes in the composition. Bestcompared to a scribble drawing. Seeks toexpress motion and/or emotive qualities ofthe composition.A common practice artistsuse in "warming up" at thestart of any new work. Agesture drawing is typicallythe first sort of drawingdone to begin a morefinished drawing orpainting.
4. Facial proportions: Guidelines that helpyou get the general size, shape andposition of features placed correctly on theface.
Facial Proportion Guideline1. Make a light outline of a face2. Add dividing lines in the middle (across anddown), for the nose, and lips3. Add eyes, 3 eyes rule4. Line up nose and lips to eyes5. Add detail to those features6. Ears7. Hair
Let’s Start!!!1. View the face from different angles. Try to find:– The over-all shape the face seems to form ¾ perspective, foreshortened, front, cropped– Reference the facial proportion guidelines to begindrawing2. Make 3 Gesture Drawings of 3 Differentperspectives in your sketch book. (For a grade)
For a grade Sketches due today:1. 5 Gesture sketch (20 sec)2. 3 Gesture find relationships (5minutes)3. 1 Gesture find relationships shading (rest of class)
5. Chuck Close1940Photorealistic artist – drawings sorealistic they look like photos
10. Proportion- The size of one objectcompared to another
Proportion- The size of one object compared to another
AndyWarhol6. Pop Art a style of art which seeks itsinspiration from commercial art and items ofmass culture (such as comic strips, popularfoods and brand name packaging).
Andy Warhol is probably the most wellknown Pop Artist, mass producingimages of mass produced objects.His most famous works depictedCampbell's soup cans. Enlarged, handpainted or silk screened, framed, and hungin an art gallery, Warhol succeeded inturning these mundane images into ironic"art".Warhol experimented in media such asfilm, sculpture, paint, and silkscreen, butperhaps his greatest work was hisinvention of himself as an internationalcelebrity and pop culture icon.He made people question, “What isconsidered ART?” by creating artworkthat was made up of images from popularculture, like Coca Cola, Campbell’s Soup,Marilyn Monroe, etc.
Max Beckmann
Claude Cahun
Yasumasa Morimura
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Sketches Investigate:– Research and print out (on one page) 3 selfportraits or portraits you were inspired by.– Sketch out, on half a page, your self portrait.These will be for a grade. Communicate an idea about yourself Explore the shape and form of the head or of a fullportrait.1. 5 Gesture sketch (20 sec)2. 3 Gesture find relationships (5 minutes)3. 1 Gesture find relationships shading (10)
Objectives Creativity of Self Portrait Technical Skills– REALISTIC value for skin, textured value for hair)– Good Contrast & Value range (Really dark values & a range of midvalues) Good Composition.– The background is neatly shaded– Creative to Compliment the portrait. Craftsmanship /neatness.– Accurately drawn– (No scribbles, no shading gaps, white spaces, or harsh marks.– Effort & participation How much did YOU actually do verses what Idid for you?– No Gridlines shown
–Research and print out (on one page) 3 self portraits or portraits you were inspired by. –Sketch out, on half a page, your self portrait. These will be for a grade. Communicate an idea about yourself Explore the shape and form of the head or of a full portrait. 1. 5 Gesture sketch (20 sec) 2. 3 Gesture find relationships (5 minutes)
Self Portraits- A portrait an artist makes using himself or herself as the subject. 2. Self Portraits: A portrait an artist makes using him/herself as the subject Self portraits can be different styles: Realistic Drawings Photographs Stylized or Abstract . We will create 2 self portraits!
later in the sixteenth century, included artists among images of “famous men.” Like Vasari, who collected portraits of artists, these collectors did not always dis-tinguish between self-portraits and portraits of artists. Nor did the Accademia del Disegno, which began collecting portraits
and backgrounds to their self-portraits. Student Activity Students will enter the room and take a seat on the front floor. The lesson will include a presentation on artists and their self-portraits, a discussion of ideas students might add to their self-portraits to communicate more about themselves and a demonstration on using watercolor pencils.
even when bedridden by surgery or illness. She often painted self-portraits. 10 "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone; because I am the person I know best.” —Frida Kahlo Read more about Kahlo’s self-portraits, and see one of the most famous, ‘Self-Portrait with Monkey.’
Robust 3D Self-portraits in Seconds Zhe Li1, Tao Yu1, Chuanyu Pan1, Zerong Zheng1, Yebin Liu1,2 1Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China 2Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, China Abstract In this paper, we propose an efficient method for ro-bust 3D self-portraits using a single RGBD camera.
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Self-Portraits – Catharsis (1 of 4) A Way Out. 2000 – Pencil & Ink - This series of four self-portraits were done prior to the yoga inspired series. They represent a catharsis, a phoenix rising from the ashes. The change, in my psyche and habit patterns, that these four images represent was twenty six years of conscious healing.
Black Holes: A General Introduction Jean-Pierre Luminet Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, D epartement d’Astrophysique Relativiste et de Cosmologie, CNRS UPR-176, F-92195 Meudon Cedex, France Abstract. Our understanding of space and time is probed to its depths by black holes. These objects, which appear as a natural consequence of general relativity, provide a powerful analytical tool able to .
