Live Portrait Study (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS(P) 123
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to-

  1. Practice their skills of portrait making using a live model, while increasing their focus on finer details of the face.
  2. Use clay as the basic medium to expertly replicate all the different textures of a human head, i.e., hair, eye, skin, etc
  3. Construct portraits to scale, enhancing their understanding of praportions of human head with lateral symmetry.

Course

 

  Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

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VAS (P) 123

 

 

 

Live Portrait Study (Practical)

 

The students will -

CO9: Interpret the anatomy of a head to learn to duplicate character of the live model in clay (or other mediums)

 

CO10: Construct professional looking finished portraits that replicate the face of the given model to be able to accomplish projects or assignments like these professionally late in life.

 

CO11: Test their understanding of proportions of a head to presuppose armatures of the required scale.

CO12:  Upgrade to deeper understanding of each individual feature of a portrait, i.e., eyes, nose, lips etc to be able to replicate the exact form they are observing.

 

CO13: Cast selected portraits in permanent medium while managing and devising techniques of mold making to be able to execute portraits in permanent medium in future.

CO14: Reflect upon the raw surfaces achieved from casting and build upon their skills of handling power tools and abraisers to achieve a professional polished surface of their portrait.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion on composition subjects, Tutorials, Videos, Demonstration, Reading assignments.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Sketching, lay outing of composition, Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Semester end examinations, Continuous Assessment Test, Sketching, layouts, Viva-Voice on display of artworks, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and regular submission of artworks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENT: Study from live model in clay and casting in any medium (plaster/ cement/ fiber/ metal/ scrape)

Submission: 4 works life size

References: 
  • Heidi Maiers - Portrait Sculpture(busts)
  • Berit Hidre - Modeling heads and faces in clay
  • Daisy Grubbs - Modeling a likeness in clay
  • Simon Kogan - How to sculpt the portrait in clay 
  • Peter Rubino - The potrait in clay
Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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