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 Outcomes:

 

Course

 

  Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

 

 

 

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.

 

COURSE CONTENT:                                                                                                        

 

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

 

Submissions:          4 works life size

 

References: 
  • Heidi Maiers – Portrait Sculpture(busts)
  • BeritHidre – 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 portrait in Clay
Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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