ART7+Portrait+Collage+Study

Homework: Portrait Collage Study
__//Due Date: April 17, 2011//__

The main objective of this study is to give you an opportunity to deal with the complexities of compositional design. The challenge is to design an interesting face. Creating an interesting face is supremely important in this case because your next three studies will be based off this collage. You need to start with a strong base or the next three studies will be weak, because the base is weak. Furthermore, you will be staring at this collage for the next 7 weeks and you want to be intrigued by your work and not grow tired of it.

Compositionally, you should be asking yourself, “What is my idea?” If you don’t have idea at the beginning, do not fret; your idea may come mid-process. However, you need to have a complete idea by the end of collage. Secondly, you should be asking yourself, “How can I show a face differently?”

Conceptually, the art principal of [|Variety] and [|Unity] will be studied. When dealing with Variety, you should ask yourself, “How can I place enough different paper sections to show my idea fully?” Almost conversely, when dealing with Unity you should be asking yourself, “How can I make it appear like it all goes together?”

When creating a collage you can hardly get away from the art element of [|Texture]. When wrestling with texture, you should ask yourself, “How can I use different surface feelings to make my face interesting, but not too crazy?”

Click on ART7 useful links to find more information on collage art and artist. Click on Portrait Project (Collage Study Rubric) to see your assessment tool. Click on Portrait Collage Study Exemplars to see examples of successful art pieces. Click on Emotional Portrait Studies to see caricatures of face shapes with emotions Click on @Esquire Portraits to see examples of how they created portraits by making a collage using the content their articles.