Deconstructed Faces

Teacher: Kate Thompson

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Access: Instant
Teacher Interaction: Self-study
5 Hours of Content
18 Lessons
62.00
Techniques: Acrylic, Collage, Fabric, Fiber Art, Mixed Media, Portraits, Sketching, Stitch, Textiles
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Closed Captions: Yes (English)

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Course Description

Learn from Kate Thompson how to break down a face for success with portraits. In this course you will be working on two faces. One is painted and the other one is a pencil drawing.

Kate will show you how to render the pencil drawing using the cross hatching technique. You will be supplied with a line drawing of this face which makes this technique applicable to all levels. The other face will be painted in gray values. Image transfers will be created and torn to add to the face creating a deconstructed, layered piece of art. Kate shows you several embroidery techniques to bring the transfer pieces together.

The pencil sketch portrait has several layers of fabric strips applied to the face with added stitching to embed everything. It’s quite a bit more colorful than the first one.

Techniques Taught in this Course

How to break down a face
Cross hatching pencil sketching
Acrylic portrait painting
Embroidery
Collage

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Bristol board 10.5” x 10” (you will have to purchase 22” x 30” paper- 3-ply)
Strathmore 400 Series Bristol Board
Rives paper 11” x 14” gray ( you will have to purchase 22” x 30”)BFK Rives Printmaking Paper – 22” x 30”,
Gray, 280 gsm, Single Sheet
Tracing paper
Graphite transfer paper Kingart Graphite Transfer Paper
Graphgear 500 .3 mechanical pencil Pentel Graph Gear 500 Pencil – 0.3 mm, Brown Barrel
Mono Zero Tombow eraser Tombow Mono Zero Refillable Eraser
Kneaded eraser General’s Kneaded Eraser General’s Kneaded Eraser
Derwent XL Charcoal Derwent XL Charcoal Block Derwent XL Charcoal Block – Black
Cretacolor charcoal holder Cretacolor Ecologic Wooden Lead Holder Cretacolor Ecologic Wooden Lead Holder
Charcoal Cretacolor Leads – Charcoal, Soft, Box of 6 Cretacolor Leads – Charcoal, Soft, Box of 6
Blending stumps
Cosmetic sponge
Sandpaper to sharpen charcoal
Princeton Select angular brush ¼ Princeton Select Synthetic Brush – Angle Shader, Short Handle, Size 1/4” | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)
White acrylic paint
Matte medium
Embroidery floss
Vintage fabric and laces ( check thrift stores, Etsy, Ebay) or contact my friend Kim SweetSageVintage on Etsy
Vintage strips CreativeJuicesfromR on Etsy CreativeJuicesfromR on Etsy
Ephemera Monahan Papers the highest quality items at exceptional values while keeping everything
Mr. Clean Magic eraser (purchase in the grocery store)

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