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1999
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Lacey, Sue.
People / Sue Lacey.
p. cm - . (Start with art)
Summary: Examines different techniques and styles that can be used when drawing
people, including portraits, caricature, collage, and 3-D modeling, using examples
from great artists and suggestions for creating your own works.
ISBN 0-7613-3262-6 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN 0-7613-0829-6 (pbk)
1. Human figure in art Juvenile literature. 2. Drawing - Technique Juvenile
children in the south of England. In her spare time, she paints and sculpts.
All the pictures in this book are by Vanessa Bailey apart from the following pages:
Ct.er br, 4b, 17, 21, 25: AKG London; 4t, 11: AKG. © Succession Picasso/DACS 1999; 8-9b, 13, 27, 29:
AKG/Erich Lessing; 14b: Musee Marmottan, Paris; 23: AKG. © DAGS 1999; 31:
Sue Lacey
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CONTENTS
WORKING LIKE AN ARTIST PAGES 6-7 VAN GOGH PAGES 20-21
Learn how to work like a true artist. Use Self-portraits Van Gogh used thick
and collect ideas from Paint a self-portrait in the style of Van Gogh.
people. You, too, can make a sculpture of were used in mosaics in Ravenna.
in his work. Make your own collage style of Arcimboldo using any
using many different materials. strange materials you can find.
of his friends and schoolteachers. create moods. Paint the same image
You can learn to draw them, too. twice using different colors and see
the difference.
Materials
Try
different
pencils,
pens, paints,
pastels,
crayons, and
materials to see
Which would be
Color
best for this work?
When you use color,
Using g sketchbook Before you start each project, this is the you want first and
try diem out. It is
place to put your sketches. Try out your tools and materials, amazing how many
mix colors, and put in interesting papers and fabrics. You can different colors you
can make.
then choose which ones you want to use.
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Drawing people
Be a magpie
Head shape
Make a collection of Look at the shape
in your artwork.
Face measurements
It helps when drawing a face to divide die
materials for your work and put them in ears and moudi are.
details afterward.
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Painting on a Surface
Rekhmere was an Egyptian court official. He
wanted his tomb fiill of pictures of his life. What
picture would remind you of home? You could
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paint a picture of your life on clay. Make sure
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Step 1. You can make a 3-D
head by using a
balloon, a tube,
and mouth by
Step 2. Mix some crumpling and
flour and water into a molding newspaper
soggy paste. Tear into shapes and pasting
old newspapers into them onto the balloon.
strips, dip them in Don't forget the hair.
the paste, and Wait for it to dry before
cover the balloon you paint it. You could use
with two layers a bronze color, or bright
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Gallery
Head Maar 1942
of Dora
PABLO PICASSO (1881 - 1973)
Models
Surface
Picasso used to ask his
Can you see all the
friends to sit for him while
different marks on the
he drew them and made
face and hair, made by
sculptures of their heads.
the tools Picasso used?
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Method MATERIALS
Look at the simple lines
The head was made in
and shapes Picasso used to
clay first to get all the
make this sculpture of
shapes and details right.
Dora Maar.
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Project: A life-sized ncuRE
the background.
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Step 2. Look at Klimt's
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The Kiss 1908
Model
The woman's
'^ face looks like
of Klimt's close
friends.
Patkrn
Can you see the
different types
of pattern
on the man's
and woman's
clothes?
Gallery
Caricatures c.1855
CLAUDE MONET (1840 - 1926)
Drawing A CARICATURE
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Project:
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Pastels • Chalks
Charcoals .Pencils
Wax Crayons
movemeiit of the dancers and the light
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sparkling
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Felt-tip Pens • Paper
Scissors
Tracing Paper
on their costumes? Degas
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liked to use different
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using different drawing materials and see what they will do.
16 a
Gallery
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Dancers in Yellow and Green
EDGAR DEGAS
c. 1899-1 904
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Background
Layers of pastels
were built up on
top of each other
to make a lively
background. Can
you see that some
of the marks are
like scribbles?
Story gBi
The dancers are
all looking at
something out
of the picture.
Perhaps they
are waiting for
their turn to
go on stage.
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Carving
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Gallery
The Madonna of the Stairs 1491-1492
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475 - 1564)
Low Relief
Carving
The figures are
Although carved
cut just slighdy into
out of solid
the surface of die
marble, the
marble, using a fine
clothes flow as if
chisel. This method
they are real.
ofwork is called low
relief.
Self-portraits
try out some swirls and lines of your own. Mix the
Step 1. Look at
yourself in a mirror.
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Self-Portrait 1889
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Senecio 1922
PAUL KLEE (1879 - 1940)
Texture
Klee painted
this picture on
linen, which is a
roughly woven
material. You
can see
the texture of
the cloth
through the
paint.
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Project: Collage
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Fruit
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each piece of
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fruit has been
chosen? The pear
looks like the
shape of a nose.
Materials
What would you
choose to make a
head, eyes, nose,
mouth, and hair if
Arcimboldo's?
one picture
using only
warm colors.
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your own picture that tells a story -just let your
Project: Storyfelling
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Gallery
Path of Joy 1993
COLOKS
This is a picture
about joy, so the
colors Emmanuel
has used are
bright and
cheerful.
different colors,
showing different
people happy
together.
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J. GLOSSARY
Abstract A work of art that Collage Placing different Mosaic A picture made
is not an exact copy. Shape, materials on a backing to make a on a wall or floor by
^^ color and pattern are used pattern or picture. pressing glass and stones
cmy materials.
Caricature Comic picture of a Marble Hord rock that comes in Sculpture Making shapes
person made by drawing many patterns and colors and can from hard or soft materials,
exaggerated chin, nose, eyes, be cut, carved, and polished. to make a person, animal,
INDEX
abstract 22, 32 grotesque 27,32 papier-moche 10
assemblage 26, 27, 32 pastels 16, 17
C hieroglyphics 8
canvas 21, 32 R
caricature 14, 15, 32 I relief 19, 32
carving 18,19,32 imagination 30,31
clay 8,9,11 Impressionists 15, 17, 32 S
collage 26,32 sculpture 10,11,18,
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marble 18,19,24,32
mosaic 13,24,25,32 .
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People introduces the young reader to some of the
world's greatest artists, their techniques, and the
People includes:
# Hints and tips on how to work like an artist
Expanded contents and concise glossary
9 A clearly worded text to develop literacy skills
People
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