Mrs. Edwards art class
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          • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
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            • Drawing the face in depth tutorials
          • Watercolor intro >
            • Watercolor project
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        • Winter/Holiday card
        • Rodeo (optional)
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
      • Perspective worksheet
      • Zentngle boxes
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    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Color Wheel
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor mandala
      • Watercolor candy
      • Gridding farm animals >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Portrait grid in opposite colors >
        • Acrylic Lesson 6 mini assignments
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Oil Painting deconstruction project
      • Independent study #1
      • Naturally occuring patterns
      • Palette knife painting
      • Draped fabric
      • Deconstruction project
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Chuck Close
      • Dynamic Hands
      • Independent study
    • Syllabus
  • Drawing II, III, IV
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • Color Wheel
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Gridding farm animals
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Charcoal figure drawing
      • Rodeo
      • foreshortening
      • Graphic Novel illustration
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Organic vs geometric
      • Independent study #1
      • Collage project
      • Draped fabric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Drain the pen
      • Printmaking
      • Sustainable environments
      • Deconstruction project
  • Sculpture
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • Color Wheel
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Cardboard city
      • Creature heads
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
      • Aquatic sculpture
      • Plaster forms
      • big tiki totems
      • Display cabinet installation collaboration
      • Wire trees
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Polymer clay miniature food
      • Deconstruction project
      • Soft sculpture
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  • AP
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • AP Art and Design Selected Works Rubric Terminology
    • 2 D drawing and Design
    • Color Wheel
    • Calendar assignments >
      • Rodeo
    • 3D AP >
      • Contemporary museum of craft
      • 3 D criteria
      • 3D AP Calendar
    • How to page >
      • Blending Color Pencil
      • Painting techniques
    • Syllabus
  • composition how to
  • Special needs
    • Sketchbook Warm Ups
    • Blending Color Pencil
    • Creating a sketchbook
    • Design I
    • Poppies
    • Where are you from?
  • VASE artwork
    • 2D
    • 3D
  • About me
  • Drain the pen

Chuck Close painting

Objectives: Students will
1. Show an understanding and awareness of the work of Chuck Close. Understand how an artist gets ideas.
2. Use ruler skills in creating a grid - develop skills in enlarging a composition using a grid. Study proportion.
3. Recognize values and create values using line, pattern and simulated textures. Develop Contrast through values.


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You are to take a photo of yourself or of someone else. Please take a good Photo of just the face.  It should be straight on or at an angle. Great lighting is necessary for this project.

​Fill the frame! no torso or body shots, just the head.


step 1: In your sketchbook, you will do your best to draw your portrait. then you will draw horizontal or diagonal lines to create the boxes. ​
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Step 2: Complete the worksheet (this will be handed to you or will be on my podium) in Oil Pastels located in the back of the room.

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  • Home
  • Writing an artist statement
  • Art 1
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Creating a sketchbook
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • The elements of design >
        • Line
        • Shape & Form
        • Value
        • Color
        • Space
        • Texture
      • Principles of design >
        • Contrast
        • Balance
        • Proportion
        • Repetition
        • Emphasis
        • Unity
      • 2nd 9 weeks >
        • Perspective assignment
        • Day of the dead sugar skull >
          • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
        • 3rd 9 weeks >
          • Self portrait with a twist >
            • Drawing the face in depth tutorials
          • Watercolor intro >
            • Watercolor project
          • Printmaking
        • Winter/Holiday card
        • Rodeo (optional)
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
      • Perspective worksheet
      • Zentngle boxes
  • Painting
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Color Wheel
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor mandala
      • Watercolor candy
      • Gridding farm animals >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Portrait grid in opposite colors >
        • Acrylic Lesson 6 mini assignments
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Oil Painting deconstruction project
      • Independent study #1
      • Naturally occuring patterns
      • Palette knife painting
      • Draped fabric
      • Deconstruction project
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Chuck Close
      • Dynamic Hands
      • Independent study
    • Syllabus
  • Drawing II, III, IV
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • Color Wheel
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Gridding farm animals
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Charcoal figure drawing
      • Rodeo
      • foreshortening
      • Graphic Novel illustration
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Organic vs geometric
      • Independent study #1
      • Collage project
      • Draped fabric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Drain the pen
      • Printmaking
      • Sustainable environments
      • Deconstruction project
  • Sculpture
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • Color Wheel
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Cardboard city
      • Creature heads
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
      • Aquatic sculpture
      • Plaster forms
      • big tiki totems
      • Display cabinet installation collaboration
      • Wire trees
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Polymer clay miniature food
      • Deconstruction project
      • Soft sculpture
    • Syllabus
  • AP
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • AP Art and Design Selected Works Rubric Terminology
    • 2 D drawing and Design
    • Color Wheel
    • Calendar assignments >
      • Rodeo
    • 3D AP >
      • Contemporary museum of craft
      • 3 D criteria
      • 3D AP Calendar
    • How to page >
      • Blending Color Pencil
      • Painting techniques
    • Syllabus
  • composition how to
  • Special needs
    • Sketchbook Warm Ups
    • Blending Color Pencil
    • Creating a sketchbook
    • Design I
    • Poppies
    • Where are you from?
  • VASE artwork
    • 2D
    • 3D
  • About me
  • Drain the pen