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Live Portrait Study (Practical)
This course will enable the students to-
- Practice their skills of portrait making using a live model, while increasing their focus on finer details of the face.
- Use clay as the basic medium to expertly replicate all the different textures of a human head, i.e., hair, eye, skin, etc.
- Construct portraits to scale, enhancing their understanding of praportions of human head with lateral symmetry.
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VAS 123 |
Live Portrait Study (Practical) |
The students will be able to- CO10: Interpret the anatomy of a head and Duplicate character of the live model in clay (or other mediums)
CO11: Use their understanding of proportion to presuppose an armature of the required scale.
CO12: Generate a deeper understanding of each individual feature of a portrait, i.e., eyes, nose , lips etc
CO13:Construct professional looking finished portraits that replicate the face of the given model |
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: (Exam 30 Hrs.)
Study from live model in clay and casting in any medium (plaster / cement/ fiber/ metal/ scrape)
SUBMISSIONS: 4 works life size
- 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 portrait in Clay
