grid value portrait

Grid Value Portrait 

wal about value in art. - how light or dark something is. the first thing we had to do was take a line for a walk, where we drew light and dark patterns with pencil on a piece of paper. after that  we had to enlarge a picture on a grid paper. then we had take a picture of our selves and print it out and make a grid on the photo. After that we got a plain piece of paper with a grid on it.  We made a window with paper and used blue tack to stick it down on 1 of the squares of the grid on the photo. after that we took our plain piece of paper and started patterning  our face on it. For the lighter spaces we made a pattern far apart and for the darker spaces we made patterns close together. The person who inspired us to do this art was called Chuck Close. Chuck Close was born 1940 5 July. he was dyslexic and did poorly at school. his dad died when he was 11 and his mother developed breast cancer but still kept making art.  lots of his art was are portraits of faces