Friday 20th June

Complete your findings for the Field Trip data.

What is a Portrait?

What Artist’s work do you know that use portraits?

Do you know what proportion is?

How can we express how to show form in a portrait?

Observation is key to understanding how to create a portrait. Proportion/Scale and form are also important to create a quality portrait. The use of form can be expressed through, use of mark, line, tone ( light and dark).

Discuss how these Artist’s create their work.

Here are a few examples of portraits inspired by Shakespeare’s masterpiece Macbeth.

Portrait drawing, painting is one of the most difficult things to do. To capture the true likeness of the subject ( sitter). Making sure the proportions are correct, will help towards capturing the best results.

You will attempt to draw today, the basic shapes, features of a face. Demonstrating your understanding of anatomy of the human face.

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Chiaroscuro means light and dark in Italian 

Rembrandt uses this to showcase his fantastic ability as a painter.

Consider the characters from Macbeth and their facial characteristics.
Think about how to demonstrate Chiaroscuro within your work, proportions and scale of features.

Use Dynamic gestures, a mixture of lines and marks to create a base image.