Chuck Close Creating Portraits and drawing with a
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Chuck Close Creating Portraits and drawing with a Grid
Who is Chuck Close? Chuck Close - a Hyper Realistic painter in his youth. Chuck suffered a medical disorder that made him unable to use a brush as he did when we was younger. Undaunted Chuck changed from small precision paint to abstract color panels to create his artwork! Both are Paintings! Chuck Close 1970 Close 2010 Chuck
Early Work - Hyper Realism Chucks paintings are huge and used everything from brushes to his own fingers (the painting to the right is a thumb painting!) Chuck would take a picture and redraw the picture several times the size using a grid to match each detail.
Grid Drawing Using a grid can be tough and it makes you really look at an object carefully!
Grid drawings - Print or Draw on your own paper!
Kandinsky Connection After Chuck Close’s disability began, Chuck did not give up and used his grid style to create portraits using color circles like Wassily Kandinsky. The effect was amazing and many consider this change in style his greatest works.
The New Chuck Close style! Kandinsky’s Circles
Abstract Color Portrait Draw a portrait without grid Then add a grid with each row and column 1 inch apart over the drawing. Add a “Kandinsky” color effect to each tile!Be creative with color and pattern! Recommend-Sharpie Drawing lines! The color with colored pencil-crayon!
Go Further Try to use a Grid from a photo or magazine! Try to draw and animal and draw the lines in different directions!
Go Further - videos Create a Grid Drawing! Get any photo
