Happy New Year!

Welcome back after a long break! The Advanced Art students got right back to work today on their self-portrait paintings. To make these, the students took digital photos of themselves, then using Photoshop, manipulated the photos so they were broken into 7 values (shades of gray). A grid was applied to the photos and also to a larger piece of canvas, making the drawing easier to enlarge. Once drawn, the pictures were numbered with their corresponding values, and painting began. Students selected their own color schemes. The following pictures show the beginning of the paintings. These should be very interesting when complete. Although the paintings are abstract, you should still see a recognizable face if painted correctly.