Form 10
1. Pre-reading task:
  • Make up a list of things important to create a portrait.
2. Reading task.
Read the article and remember common mistakes the beginning artist made drawing a portrait. Say how  to avoid them.

 Drawing Basics: What Masters DO that Amateurs DON’T
Carol Leather adores her granddaughter and wanted to freeze that young energetic spirit. But when she created a portrait of six-year-old Beth, it laid lifeless on the page, flat, out of proportion and missing the personality that this perky child exudes. It didn’t even look like a little girl; Carol had aged the portrait.



Here are the common drawing mistakes Carol made:

1. She put the eyes in the center of the face, which isn’t where eyes line up on a child’s face.
• As people age, eyes move to different positions.
• Carol’s drawing proportions were off, so the likeness eluded her.

2. Carol used just two pencils for the hair, instead of a wide range multifarious tones found in natural hair.
• Even blonde hair has super dark values.
• In her final portrait she used 12-18 pencils to create depth in hair.

3. She used just one pencil for the skin tones, which makes the face look flat.
• In her second portrait, she used 12-18 pencils to help the face take on dimension.

4. She used white drawing paper.
• It takes 200% longer to draw portraits on white and results tend to be wimpy.
• The portrait paper needs to be in harmony with skin tones.
• Clothing needs to be in harmony with the paper.

5. Her photo reference didn’t capture the child’s personality.
• It’s tricky to get great shots of a moving target, like kids, but there are some really cool ways to make that happen!

Carol’s birthday arrived shortly after she completed her disappointing portrait, so she decided to splurge on one of Sandra Angelo`s online art workshops. Discovering drawing basics and secrets that masters use to make portraits dynamic and energetic, her work began to take a quantum leap.


Drawing Basics with Sandra Angelo 
‘Best Friends’ by Carol Leather

Here you can see Carol’s finished drawing after learning drawing basics through Sandra Angelo`s art workshop. This drawing, Best Friends, was sold before she even finished it.
 /From Drawing Basics with Sandra Angelo/

3. After reading task

1. Complete the sentences from the text and say what you think about portrait as a genre of art:
  • But when she created a portrait ........
  •  .......................which isn’t where eyes line up on a child’s face
  • Carol used just two pencils for the hair, instead of....................
  • The portrait paper needs ...........................................................
  • .........................a moving target, like kids, but there are some really cool ways ..................
Discovering drawing basics and secrets .....................................

 2. Make up questions about the text as if you were Sandra Angelo.
3. Act out a dialogue between Carol and a journalist, who is going to write an article about her painting.
4. Prepare an advertisement about Carol`s exhibition you are going to arrange soon.
 5. Write an essay about the role of art in public education.

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