Mrs. Edwards art class
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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
  • Elements and principles of design
    • The elements of design >
      • Line
      • Shape & Form
      • Value
      • Color
      • Space
      • Texture
    • Principles of design >
      • Contrast
      • Balance
      • Proportion
      • Repetition
      • Emphasis
      • Unity
  • composition how to
  • Art 1
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Creating a sketchbook
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Day of the dead sugar skull >
        • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Winter/Holiday card
      • Rodeo (optional)
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Self portrait with a twist >
        • Drawing the face and gridding
      • Perspective assignment >
        • Perspective worksheet
      • Printmaking
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Scratchboard
      • 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 >
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor project
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Painting techniques
      • Oil painting a pear >
        • Oil Painting color theory
      • Oil painting reflective surfaces
      • Draped fabric
      • Naturally occuring patterns
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Dynamic Hands
      • Independent study #1
      • 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 >
      • Rodeo
      • foreshortening
      • Graphic Novel illustration
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Distortion art glitch
      • Printmaking
      • Replicated eyes
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Draped fabric
      • 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
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • whimsical storefront dioramas
      • Plaster forms
      • Deconstruction project
      • Creature heads
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Big heads
      • Ceramic shoes
      • Soft sculpture
    • Syllabus
  • AP
    • Writing an artist statement
    • 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
  • VASE artwork
    • 2D
    • 3D
  • About me