Grid Value Portrait

I have finished my grid value portrait. I think it looks really cool. A grid value portrait is when you copy off a picture and you make the picture on a bigger piece of paper by using light and dark patterns. You do this by drawing in each little square one by one till you are all done. Then it looks like the picture but you only used light and dark patterns in your squares. 

We had to do this art in this order:

• We talked about Chuck Close (He first made the art).
• We took our pencil for a walk.

(Taking a pencil for a walk is when you have your pice of paper and you let your pencil walk around the paper making shapes in all sizes and shapes)

• We practised some light and dark patterns we could use.

(To make the light and dark patterns we did our patterns far and close away so they would space out and make light patterns or they would be close together to make dark patterns).

• Got in a good pose for a photo.
• Then we had to print the photo.
• Then we drew the grid on the photo and paper.
• We looked at one square and focused on it. 
• Then we started drawing in the one square using our light and dark patterns.

The hardest part was trying not to draw the whole head and body shape at once and trying to do it one by one.

The easiest part was getting in a good pose for the photo and drawing the grid onto the photo.