Advanced Drawing and Painting Self Portraits Historical PowerPoint (Drawing the Human Head in Pencil) 1Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

2 Introduction Self-portrait: A representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. The history of self portraits is as long and as varied as the history of art itself, but they became increasingly popular after the mid-fifteenth century when good mirrors were more readily available. Doing a self-portrait is free and convenient. You are always close at hand as a model for your own artistic creation. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

3 Leonardo da Vinci, 1512 Red Chalk on Paper Judith Leyster, 1630 Oil on Canvas / Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

4 Henri Matisse Self Portrait in a Striped T-shirt 1906, Oil on Canvas Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. Picasso, Self Portrait Facing Death Mougins, 30 June 1972 Pencil and Crayon on Paper

5 Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889, Oil on Canvas Paul Gauguin, Self Portrait Dedicated to Carrière, 1888 or 1889, Oil on Canvas Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

6 Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986 Silk Screen Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. Chuck Close, 1997 Oil on Canvas 102” x 84” ?resourceid=3783;id=r3783#r3783

7 Gilbert Stuart, self portrait, Oil on canvas. Newport, Rhode Island, Redwood Library and Athenaeum. In the public domain Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. Photograph of Self-portrait, Oil on canvas, by Duncan Grant. In the public domainDuncan Grant

Why paint a picture of yourself? Artists would paint portraits of themselves because they were the only ones who could paint not only the outside, but what the artist was like on the inside. 8Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. This is a painting of Picasso during his blue period. Can you guess why he is painted all blue. Think about the color blue. Singers sometimes say they are singing the blues when the are sad.

History of portraits 0bz5df/self-portrait- art-history/ Check out the web page and answer the questions on the hand out for homework. 9Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

Project 1 The easiest place to start is using your own picture. Lightly geso over it so you can see through the geso to the image. Create contour lines using pencil over the main lines (eyes, nose, mouth neck) You can change your appearance by adding details. 10

Project Requirements 1. your name must be on the back of your work. 2. you must use an image of you. 3. neatness is key 4. be creative, what can you add that represents you? Hand in your finished work to mrs. Comstock. (don’t leave it in your drawer.) 11Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

Project 2: Inside My Head You will create a profile of yourself. Inside yourself you will draw things that represent you. You need to shade in this project. Pencil only! In your sketch book. 12Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

Project 3: contour line selfie! In your sketch book draw a realistic image of your self using a photo as your guide. No shading just lines. 13Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

Project 4: value portrait Pick another image of yourself to draw in contour lines in your sketch book. Fill in using your value scale. 14Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

Project 5: Oil pastel portraits You will draw either your self or a friend in contour lines. Using oil pastels to blend and create and interesting composition. It is best to work dark to light by changing colors, tints/shades! 15

Project 6: What’s inside of Me? Using a pencil and some watercolor paint create a profile view of yourself and draw/paint what is inside of you that make you who you are. 16Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

Project 7: up close and personal selfie In your sketch book draw an up close and personal image of you. Using only pencil to shade. Remember cross hatching, stippling, and blending in this. 17Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

Project 8: surrealism selfie A style of art and literature developed principally in the 20 th century, in which fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible. . Involves fantasy & dreams  Is illogical  Stresses the subconscious In your sketch book create a surreal self portrait. Remember it needs to be dream like/ illogical. Work from an image of your self. Choice of medium is yours. 18Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.