The document discusses value, shading, and photorealism in art. It defines value as the lights and darks in a work, and notes the range from black to white with shades of gray. Shading is applying media more or less densely to create light and dark areas. Photorealism aims to make images look like photographs through highly detailed rendering and sometimes using a grid technique. The document provides examples of photorealist Chuck Close's self-portraits and grid-based works, and shows student examples applying these techniques to portraits.

1. What is Value?
Posterized Portrait & Shading
Alyssa Suba ’16
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2. Value is...
• The appearance of lights and
darks found in a work of art.
• These range from black to white
with numerous shades of gray in
between.
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3. Value Scale?
• A value scale (or grayscale) shows the full
tonal range of a color.
• You will be doing this later today!
• Using your pencil, try shading dark to light.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0QD0CUfL_pQ
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4. What is Shading?
1. Applying media more densely or with a
darker shade for darker areas and less densely
or with a lighter shade for lighter areas.
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5. So, how do you shade?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=fVptKJZzMAU
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6. Blending
• Gentle and gradual transition from one to
the other.
• Using pencils properly: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzg-9SsV-gE
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7. Using a blender
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=KQPeXXJHAVg
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8. Drawing lips - Step by step
Draw lightly to start. Add darker shades as you progress.
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9. Drawing an eye - Step by step
Do not guess! Draw what you see!
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10. Drawing a nose
Use blending stump to smooth out pencil lines.
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11. How to draw the eye, nose and mouth: Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6RFCfp7d2Y
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12. Using a grid to draw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvP9oUEGko
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13. Project 6: Drawing Portraits using pencil!
- Photorealism -
Chuck Close
[American Photorealist Painter, born in 1940]
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14. What is Photorealism?
• Photorealism or Superrealism. In this style, artists in the
early 1970s created a link between representational
systems of painting and photography.
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15. • Photorealism--A style of painting in which an image is
created in such exact detail that it looks like a
photograph; uses everyday subject matter, and often is
larger than life
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18. • Photorealists frequently used a grid technique to
enlarge a photograph and reduce each square to
formal elements of design. Each grid was its own
little work of art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rRg2i3gMBI
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19. Chuck Close
•
Almost all of Close’s work is based on the use of a grid as an
underlying basis for the representation of an image.
Leslie 1986
Created with his own ink
fingerprints!
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21. •Think about other self-portraits you have seen.
•How is Close's painting like or different from the
other two self-portraits?
Text
Frida KahloSelf Portrait
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Rembrandt
Chuck Close

22. • One difference is that Close worked from a photograph
while the other artists may have looked in a mirror.
How are the “personalities” of these drawings different
from Rembrandt and Kahlo’s portraits?
Chuck Close, Kiki 1993
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Chuck Close,
Self-Portrait 2007

23. • Big Self-Portrait, in black and
white, was the first of Close's
mural-sized works painted from
photographs.
• This painting took four months to
complete.
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24. Why did Close’s
style change?
Detail of Kiki
• Close experienced a tragedy that subsequently influenced
his painting style. In 1988, he had a spinal blood clot,
which left him a quadriplegic, unable to move either his
legs or his arms.
• With a paint brush clamped between his teeth, he
developed a new way to paint. His portraits, the photos,
and canvases were gridded off by assistants and then he
used his mouth brush to paint, using the techniques of
grisaille and pointillism within the grids
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25. Student Examples...
Alison Lander, Class of 2015
-Portrait of her sister.
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26. • Bobby Romero,
Class of 2015
• His taekwondo instructor.
• He gave it to him as a gift
for his birthday.
• This was more difficult
because of the hands and
background.
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27. • Carmela
Paredes
• Class of 2015
• Portrait of her
parents.
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28. •
MORE STUDENT EXAMPLES FROM STUDENTS!
Anne Marie Tran’s, ‘2015
Ngoc Nguyen, ‘2015
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Ashwin Narkar, ‘2015
Maria Diaz, ‘2015

29. Using the grid to shade
a posterized image.
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30. Different levels of posterizing
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31. • Once you find your photo, you will have to
open Photoshop and posterize your image.
Step 2:
Change to
black & white
Step 1: Find Photo
*Must be original!
NO photos from google
images or copyrighted!
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Step 2:
Posterize in Photoshop.
Level 6 or above!

32. STEP 4: USING THE GRID!
Grid off in 1/2”
squares and number
on your printed photo!
Printed Picture 8.5 x11in
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1 inch squares on
your drawing paper!
Drawing paper: 17 x 22inches

33. The Project:
Who has influenced your heart and mind?
• parent?
• friend?
• yourself?
• coach?
• teacher?
• relative?
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Libby Wailin, 2013’
Her mother and her.

34. *Find an ORIGINAL photo you have taken of the
person and have it ready for next class!
Julian Leus, 2015’
His cousin
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Veronica Mora, ‘2015
Her Friend

35. More student examples
Jacob Nagel ’16
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36. Alejandra Galeano ’16
Tiffany Lu ’16
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37. Amolak Sidhu ’16
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