Friday 17 June 2016

Grid value portrait

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That's a grid value portrait. Also, if you haven't noticed, I'm back! Anyway a, ehem, Grid value portrait, is a fancy way of saying picture made out of patterns. Originally made by the artist Chuck Close (who's dad died, mother got breast cancer, got a kidney infection, paints faces but can't distinguish one face from another (face blindness)*, was paralyzed but strapped a brush to his wrist and kept painting and is still alive.) you draw grid value portrait🐧 by drawing a grid on a piece of paper and a photo andcopying one square at a time using small close together patterns for dark squares, large and far apart patterns for light squares and they look really cool.

*Can I even have brackets in a brackets? Limes.
🐧I will now call them pattern people. Nectarines.
Double ands, I know. But what else was I supposed to do? Apples.

°Does the comma make sense? Lemons.
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Penguin says bye.
Interesting fact: The penguin isn't an image. Its a special character. Go into insert in google docs, click on special characters and draw a penguin in the box. This'll come up if it thinks your drawing looks enough like a penguin.

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