Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Studio Notes / Chuck Close self-portrait A

Photo session!


Review homework.


Create grayscale tonal chart in sketchbook using ink and water. (minimum 7 one inch squares)






Listen to two videos below.


Visit this link to hear Chuck talk about this work in relation to the Pointalists.


Listen to this interview with Charles Osgood and see Chuck's studio in the Hamptons.


Create 1/2 inch grid on photo print provided. Discuss approach to blowing up grid on your watercolor paper. Doubling the scale is a good approach - 1/2 square on your xerox prints would be larger to a one inch per square on your watercolor paper. The only drawing on your watercolor paper should be that of the grid - no other drawing. Project goals:


1. create a grid on your photograph that is doubled in size on your watercolor paper.


2. number each grid along the edges on the photo and on your watercolor paper after taping off the edges of your grid on your watercolor paper. feel free to crop your photo, eliminating as much negative space as you want.


3. match the tones on the print provided on your watercolor paper using ink and water


4. mask off /block areas that you aren't working on so that you can focus on matching the tone of each square


5. For Thursday: complete grid and match 1/4 to 1/3 of the tones you see on your photograph.


JTCC Student Show announcement:
Mr. Ferguson will be accepting entries for the JTCC Annual Juried Student Art Show soon after we return from Spring Break beginning Monday, March 26th through Friday, March 30th. 


Entry forms and all details will be posted in the Art (A-215 Midlo), the Design Lab (A-202 Midlo), the Graphics Lab (A-217 Midlo) and in front of Mr. Ferguson's office (A-220h Midlo) after Spring Break. 



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