Cut-paper portrait
Make sure the portrait is zoomed in to show mostly the face. The person can be a favorite actor, athlete or musician.
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This assignment entails finding a high-resolution portrait online, downloading it to your computer and sending it to to me on the contact form. The resolution of the photo needs to be 600 pixels wide by 800 pixels high.
After you send me the photo, I will reduce it to 4 or 5 tones, and print it out, so you can isolate the 5 tones, and transfer the shapes of the tones to construction paper, cut them out and layer them, like the image to the left. NOTE: the image does not need to be black and white; I will convert it before I posterize it. Gallery of Student Work |
After we did this assignment, I reviewed and located more examples of cut-paper portraits with this search.
This one impressed me the most, which was one of the most intricately produced ones I came across -- very impressive. It is the art of someone like this, that models for us a way to potentially take our art to the next level and sell them to the public (assuming, of course, that we can produce it as well as he does).
This one impressed me the most, which was one of the most intricately produced ones I came across -- very impressive. It is the art of someone like this, that models for us a way to potentially take our art to the next level and sell them to the public (assuming, of course, that we can produce it as well as he does).