Grid Value Portrait

Grid Value Portrait

We have been doing art called grid value portraits. Grid value portraits are portraits of us but in a grid. And in each grid box we looked at a picture of us and did light and dark, because we have been learning about light and dark patterns. 

To make one we had to have an artist in focus. Our artist in focus is Chuck Close. 

Then we did something called taking a line for a walk. This is when you draw a big squiggly line and inside of the gaps you do either patterns or color them in. We did light and dark patterns. We found out that the closer you put the patterns, the darker they are.

Next we did an activity called enlarging. Enlarging was this piece of paper that had a grid with a picture in it. Underneath the picture was a larger grid. In the larger grid you had to enlarge the picture from the smaller grid onto the bigger grid. It got harder and harder in each paper.

 We then took pictures of ourselves and printed them out. We took a ruler and put grid line on top of the photo. We took big pieces of paper and then started doing patterns. We had made this window thing that you could put on top of the photo so that you only had to focus on that one box. We then took our already grid boxed big paper and did our patterns according to light and dark colors in the grid box of the picture. 

Finally we all finished and are all very proud of what we had accomplished. I was very proud too. The trickiest part for me was to find enough patterns to fill the whole thing! My favourite part was how it all turned out! I actually thought it turned out better than I thought it would! This is my finished art...