• Sec 3 JC 1 Workshop

• 18 March 2013 (Monday)• 8.30 am to 5.30pm• Nanyang Junior College

?Work to create a self-portrait from observation to reflect your response to the question of “Who Am I?”

- Think of how your final work will look like. Make thumbnail sketches of your ideas in colour. Annotate to remind yourself how your identity can be represented symbolically in the work. You can incorporate elements from your personal tree or other items that you deemed suitable. Keep these sketches and we will use them to discuss your actual painting.

- We will work on these portraits for two weeks (17 & 24 Jan)

Alternative Portraits

• For your next Studio Task, conceptualize an alternative portrait about how your ‘self’ can be represented with a purposeful manipulation of material(s)/technique. You must be able to state your intentions and influences that shaped your work.

• Only requirement: A3 size

• Share your ideas on Thursday, 7 Feb

Chuck ClosePhil/Fingerprint2009 Screenprint in 25 colors Paper Size: 56 x 44 inches Image Size: 46 x 34 inches

Demonstrated that a very traditional art form -- portrait painting, could be resurrected as a challenging form of contemporary expression. 

Chuck CloseSelf-Portrait Woodcut 2009 47-color woodcut

"I saw that each grid was in fact a tiny painting,"

Alternative Portraits~ Art with unusual materials

Carl Warner produces stunning landscapes made entirely out of food. Here, a peapod boat sails away from a land made of bread and potatoes, over a sea of salmon...

Catherine Becker-Echivard makes lifelike scenes using fish heads placed on doll-like bodies

Prudence Emma Staite uses Smarties to recreate famous paintings such as Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres...

Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres (1884)

The most recent artwork by the British artist Kyle Bean

The most recent artwork by the British artist Kyle Bean

Ally Rosenberg, aged 17, made a sculpture out of chewing gum for his A-level art project...