Gr 8

“The remarkable career of artist Chuck Close extends beyond his completed works of art. More than just a painter, photographer, and printmaker, Close is a builder who, in his words, builds "painting experiences for the viewer." Highly renowned as a painter, Close is also a master printmaker, who has, over the course of more than 30 years, pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking in remarkable ways.

Almost all of Close’s work is based on the use of a grid as an underlying basis for the representation of an image.”

http://www.chuckclose.coe.uh.edu/life/index.html

These wonderful paintings were created using the same grid system that Chuck Close uses. Students began by gridding 2 poster boards with six inch squares. After having their photo adjusted to high contrast black and white they drew 1 inch squares on the resulting picture. They then painstakingly drew the contents of each one inch square into each 6 inch square. The final step of the project is painting the large portrait in acrylic paint.

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