After completing exercises with color mixing and painting techniques students will choose a photo reference of a person's face to work from for their portrait assignment.
The photo reference must be available at all times on each student's fully charged chrome book every day of class.
The photographic image must be:
entire head facing straight on at the viewer
sharp high resolution
well lit and evenly lit
full color
large enough so that it fills nearly, if not the entire screen
Students will work on the canvas board supplied and begin with the same technique as with every piece, a pencil drawing utilizing basic shapes and construction lines and then developed by "sculpting" the shapes. The goal is to create as strong a likeness of the subject as possible. Once the drawing stage has been approved by Mr. Purcell, please begin painting with an underpainting and then working dark to light as much as you can. No pure white should be used at all until the very end.
Make sure your palette always has the three primary colors available. Have fun!
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