Southwest High School - Cecily Spano, Art Teacher - 3 hours
This week Cecily had me create an example piece for her 6th hour painting class. The next project that they were starting was to create a self portrait, where they would develop a sketch from a picture they had taken and make a painting out of it. She was encouraging the students to experiment with style and non-representational work, but in the time I was at South west, I quickly worked through a painting of myself and took pictures along the way to show my process.
I used some guidelines for proportion, but I wanted to include the top of my head so I didn't want to copy it exactly.
I'm not really a painter so I wasn't sure how exactly to lay it out for painting, but I did some sort of planear lines for reference.
Painting is hard.
For a two hour quick job I thought I did alright.
Next week I'll be largely at the Perpich Center, very excited to return to my alma mater.