BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO

FRACTURED FRONTAL PORTRAITS

INTERMEDIATE 2-D ART

pastels on tinted charcoal paper, glass shards & poster boards

There are so many ways to fracture a work of art.

This last year the first two kids below choose to cut their pieces up 

and glue and separate their  parts to a poster board backing.

This first one is the work of senior Ayesha Durrani 

and below a close up of the glass shards she glued on for more interest.

I felt the outside pierced edge of the format complimented her fiery subject.

She chose to work with water based pastels for this piece.

Next up is senior Eileen Lee with her very emotive  subject.

I would love to be able to snuggle up with this pup.

Eileen also chose to use water pastels.

And lastly we have senior Jazzarie Lo with her super clever composition.

Unlike the other two,

she drew each of her parts separately in different proportional scales.

She cut those away from her paper

 then played with their arrangement until she had something that felt just right.

Then down on the poster board they went with rubber cement.

This is always a challenging assignment in that the kids have to "craft" their pieces.

They aren't used to cutting out and gluing.

Plus it adds extra work time that they forget to plan out for

which leaves them stressing about finishing on time.

But somehow they always do.