PortraitureLesson 1
Connector: Card Sort
Which paintings
are portraits?
Portraits Not Portraits
Portraits Not PortraitsWhat is different between the 2 groups of pictures?
•Picture of a person.•Can normally only see their shoulders and face.•Records a persons appearance.•Shows a persons personality.•The picture is normally portrait way up.
•Picture is not normally of people.•Picture can be of objects, landscapes, nature and buildings.•Shows how the artist feels about the objects/scenery.•Picture is normally landscape way up.
Big picture
•Connector: card sort•Discuss what makes a
portrait•Mind map.
•Demonstration.•Drawing time.
•Review.
Learning Outcome• All will mind map their new
project and know what a portrait is.
• All will do drawing studies of the nose and lips.
• Most pupils learn what tone is and use 2 tones.
• Some will use 3 tones and use shading very smoothly.
Why has Portraiture been used in the past?
• Sign of wealth.• Capture a physical
likeness to send to a person they may wish to marry.
• However some portraits were made to show an idealised (air brushed) image of the person so they appeared better looking.
• Showing a physical presence in a building or space when they are absent.
Where can portraiture be found
today?
BUT Why do we still use the painted portrait?
• To observe and understand physical
proportion.• Explore human
expression.• Patience through
the painting process.
• A painting is a one off piece and can never be painted
the same way again.• Where as a digital
photo is one of many and can easily
be forgotten.
Mind map
Myself Portraiture
Project
HobbiesSports/ Art/ Music/ Cooking
Foods
Sports men/women
Family/ FriendsBooks/
Authors
Singers/Bands
Colours
Clothes
Films
What are your likes
and dislikes?
Who is your idol?
-who can explain what
an idol is?
Actor/Actress
Culture
Religion
Demonstration: Drawing stages
1) SOFTLTY draw the OUTLINE.2) SOFTLY draw the BIG INSIDE
SHAPES.3) SOFTLY draw the DETAIL.
4) SHADE in the LIGHT TONES.5) SHADE in the MIDDLE TONES.6) SHADE in the DARK TONES.
7) START a NEW DRAWING.
Drawing Stages• STAGES1)Softly sketch the outline2)Softly sketch in the big shapes of the shoe3)Softly draw in small details e.g. Laces, stitches4)Add light tones= very soft pencil pressure, thin
lines (hold pencil at a diagonal to the table)NOTE: the lightest highlights leave blank/white
5) Add medium tones=medium pencil pressure6) Add dark tones=heavy pencil pressure, thick lines
reviewGo round the room...Say who your idol is
And why they are your idol
Historical Portraits
Leonardo da Vinci,Mona Lisa, 1503-06
Johannes Vermeer, Head of a Young Girl, 1660
Unkown Artist, Henry VIII
George Romney, Mary Moser, 1770-1
Above: Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s, Vertumnus, 1591
Historical Portraits
Above: Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-bauer I, 1907
Left: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait Saint Rémy, September 1889
Right: Tamara de Lempicka, Auto Portrait, 1929
Contemporary PortraitsLeft: Sonia Boyce, She Ain’t Holding Them Up, She’s Holding On (Some English Rose), 1986
Left: Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Monkey, 1940
Below: Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, 1967
Contemporary Portraits
Left: Julian Opie,Best of Blur Album Front Cover
Left: Lucien Freud, Queen Elizabeth II, 2000-01
Below: Beryl Cook, Bertie, 1980