As part of the self portrait project this term the Y8 made paintings based on the work of Chuck Close. I admire the artist immensely but as a doing thing it isn’t really me. My painting tailed off badly when the photo got wrecked and I had to start again with a new photo and obviously I didn’t get the lines in the right place so it went well off. The children generally stuck to the idea of transferring the image square by square and we discussed the idea of the squares showing in the final image and so on. Some of the children let the squares show and some went for a more all over effect. Some forgot the photo completely, I think. A very successful display and very popular in the school.

Chuck Close Display

Chuck Close Display