Grid Value Portrait

Last term, we were doing a type of art called a grid value portrait.  A grid value portrait is a picture or photo enlarged using a grid.

Everyone in our class enlarged a picture of themselves.

Our pictures were in black and white, so in our enlargement the light parts were light and the dark parts were dark. In each square there needs to be a pattern.  For a dark square, the pattern needs to be close together to make it look dark.  For a light square, the pattern needs to be far apart.  The squares help position your eyes and other things.  This is why it is called a grid value Portrait.

I thought that one of the trickiest parts was to make the nose and the eyes.  What I like the most about my portrait was the light squares because they were much easier than the dark squares.  The light squares were also much shorter to make.

Making the portraits took a long time but I enjoyed making them.