Chuck Close Self Portrait

Chuck Close is an American painter and photographer who first achieved fame as a photorealist.

1. Take digital photos of the students.

2. Create and print an 8" x 10" grid sheet filled with a 1" lines for each student.  Stack the photo on the grid paper. Tape together. The students are to trace all the edges of their faces on the photo, which will transfer to the grid.

3. Once the face edge lines are on the grid paper, instruct the students to pick a pair of pencil crayons each for the face, neck, background and hair. Each square in these areas is to be filled with any kind of shapes and patterns, but only with the chosen pair of colors. Repeat until all the areas are filled. The eyes look best just colored normally without any patterns.