Drawing Portraits: Mixed Media Portrait Unit

Why do people paint portraits?

Why do people paint portraits? Portraits provide a visual record of what individuals looked like in a specific time period. Portraits With the invention of the camera in the mid 1800s, artists

self-portrait - A portrait an artist makes using himself or herself as its subject, typically drawn or painted from a reflection in a mirror.

MONA LISA by Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519

Parodies of the Mona Lisa

Why so famous? Mona Lisa has no visible facial hair—including eyebrows and eyelashes. Some researchers claim that it was common at this time. Few other works of art have been subject to as much scrutiny, study, mythologizing and parody. Stolen in 1911 and returned 2 years later, acid poured on it damaging it in 1956. In 2004, a three-dimensional infrared scan proved that she was originally wearing a bonnet and clenching her chair. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Mona Lisa the most valuable painting ever insured, current value with inflation is inflation approximately $670 million in 2006 About 6 million people view the painting at the Louvre each year.

Types of Portraits: Front View

Types of Portraits: 3/4 View Self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh.

Types of Portraits: Side View

Woman with an Ermine Leonardo da Vinci 1483-90 oil on wood 54x39cm Czartorski Museum, Krakow

Self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, executed in red chalk sometime between 1512 and 1515

THE ARNOLFINI MARRIAGE by Jan Van Eyck 1395-1441 is a record of the marriage of the two people in the picture. In modern days, a couple would hire a photographer to record their wedding. Giovanni Arnolfini hired an artist to paint the picture. In addition to being a portrait, it is also a legal record showing that the marriage took place. The artist signs it as a legal document.

George Washington (Lansdowne portrait) by Gilbert Stuart, oil on canvas, 1796

American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood from 1930 American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood from 1930. Portraying a pitchfork-holding farmer and a younger woman (imagined to be his wife or daughter) in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style, it is one of the most familiar images in 20th century American art. Wood wanted to depict the traditional roles of men and women as the man is holding a pitchfork symbolizing hard labor. Wood referenced late 19th century photography and posed his sitters in a manner reminiscent of early American portraiture.

Drawing Portraits: Reference Lines & Measurements Turn to P. 25 in your sketchbook… The Human Head: Proportion Although each person’s face is different, there are several things they all have in common. The reference lines below will help you with the basics of drawing faces. The sketch shows basic division lines of the face. All reference lines are approximations and should be drawn very lightly and adjusted according to what portrait is being drawn. A center axis- divides face in half, the face is symmetrical. The head is basically an egg shape, larger at the top and smaller at the bottom.

What’s wrong with this Portrait? Looking Activity

Where are we going? Student Example

Drawing your rough draft using Portrait Reference Lines… Draw a new portrait rough draft with the teacher…. Draw lightly in pencil…we will erase tomorrow!!!!

Faces are oval or egg-shaped.

Faces are oval or egg-shaped.

The basic eye shape is made up of curved lines.

Noses don’t have hard edges or outlines—most of their shape comes from shading. But you can draw simple outlines to practice

Lip shapes can be made from several curved lines Lip shapes can be made from several curved lines. The bottom lip is usually a little bigger than the top. There is a little dip in the top lip.

What is a Cartoon?

What is a Caricature? A caricature of film comedian Charlie Chaplin.

What is Anime? The representative styles of "classic" and "modern" anime art.

COOPERATIVE PEER ACTIVITY: Thinking Like An Artist In The Process Of Revision…. Why do artist sketch? It’s like the revision process in writing (outline, rough draft, final draft) Look at Picasso’s sketches. Work in table groups of 3-4. Put cows in order from start to finish, the order that you think the artist worked in… You have 2 minutes

What is Abstract? What would the definition of abstract be? What abstract examples can you find in the room on the posters and ceiling tiles? What subject matter can be abstract? What is the difference between abstract art and non-objective art? Why would an artist want to abstract an image?

Guernica ~ Pablo Picasso (1937)

Abstract Portraits by Picasso

Abstract Portraits by Picasso

Abstract Portraits by Jawlensky

Abstract Portraits by Jawlensky

Abstract Portraits by Jawlensky

Abstract Portraits by Jawlensky

Abstract Portraits by Matisse

Abstract Portraits by Matisse