Hockney-style Portrait Painting

With this painting project my students where looking at the photographic works of David Hockney in order to find inspiration for a self portrait. We were also investigating the way Cubism and Futurism provided a totally different approach in depicting the human form through the process of compositional deconstruction . With this in mind they used a photograph of themselves taken from a front and three quarter angle. Each of the photos were divided which into an even grid format then cut into pieces. Pieces were chosen and rearrange into a desired composition on a blank grid template. This then became the basis for their painting, which was easily enlarged because of the use of the grid. Their choice of colour and painting technique was based upon how they saw themselves and what they considered was most appropriate to the composition.