1. Unit 1. Portraiture. Drawing a portrait using a variety of techniques and materials.

2. A contour drawing by an art student. “I drew my friend by imagining that my pencil was travelling across the face from top to bottom and left to right”. “I lightened the pressure on my pencil where I saw more light or where the form moved towards me and I applied more pressure where it was darker or moved back and away”.

3. Artist’s that use contour drawing in their work.

4. Del Kathryn Barton Born 1972 Australia.

5. DEL KATHRYN BARTON

6. The Whole of Everything

9. SYLLABUS CONNECTIONS: THE ARCHIBALD PRIZE AND PORTRAITURE Right click to open hyperlink.

10. Egon Schiele Del Kathryn Barton has been influenced by the expressive line work of

11. Born 1890-died 1918. An expressionist artist. expressionist

15. What you will draw for this part of unit 1. one-minute portrait: each partner draws the best portrait that he-she can in sixty seconds. continuous line portrait: each partner draws a portrait without lifting his pencil off the paper. blind contour portrait: each partner draws a portrait without looking at his drawings. ambidextrous portrait: each partner switches hands to draw her /his with your left hand. if you are left-handed, use your right hand. upside-down portrait: each partner draws an upside-down portrait of his right-side up partner. tonal portrait: each partner draws the tones of their partner's face, not necessarily the lines or the features. eight-minute portrait: each partner draw the best portrait that they can in eight minutes. mnemonic portrait: each partner draws a portrait of their partner from memory.

16. Using a variety of drawing materials.

17. An example of a students contour drawing.

18. Next lesson. Adding colour and pattern.

19. Looking and analysing Gustav Klimt’s work.