For the last 2 weeks, the high school art classes (beginning and advanced) have been working on creating an enlarged portrait of a well known individual. Students selected one or two 1 inch grids from the cut up portrait. Students then used gridding, proportions and ratios to recreate their 1 inch grid onto a 12 inch by 12 inch sheet of paper. Students broke their grid down into smaller units and then transfered those units onto the larger 12 inch sheet of drawing paper. Once gridded, students transfered the lines, shapes and values over to their drawing paper.
This week, students in each art class began assembling their enlarged portrait revealing who their class was drawing. Once their drawing was assembled, it was ready to hang and display around the school. Each class had to develop a plan for the location of their portrait. Each class had responsibilities divided up among themselves as to who would get permission to have it hung, who would mount the ladder, who would measure out the string to suspend it, who would spot or measure the location to make sure it hung true and level, etc. Students teamed up, divided up the tasks and got 'er done. Enjoy.
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| Starting to assemble the individual grid drawings |
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| Who's it gonna be??? |
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| Edgar Alan Poe...create the portrait nevermore |
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| Hey, Mr. Robinson |
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| I once caught a fish, this big |
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| When in doubt, let a girl do it |
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| Ms. Monroe hangin around |
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| M. Monroe |
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| J. Robinson |
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