Checking in With the Teen Portraits "Deconstructed" Class...



Hannah's feeling a little 2-dimensional today...

 Today was the halfway mark for the "Face to Face: Deconstructing the Portrait" class, so I thought I'd share some of the students' work.

The first several meetings of this class focused on works from the Renaissance and the study of realistic proportions and facial features.


And they practiced profile proportions



Students practiced frontal proportions...

 




Putting it all together in a Self Portrait

 


Proportion Practice



From there, we jumped ahead to the late 19th and early 20th centuries where artists began to "play" and experiment with style and approach.  For the examples shown here, the artist Amedeo Modigliani was in the spotlight and his work was used as our inspiration as we began to distort and abstract the portrait.   

Great work kids - I look forward the the next project!



A work in progress...

 


Great color - unique interpretation!