Charles Thomas Chuck Close, born July 5, 1940 in Monroe,
Washington is an American painter and photographer who paint his grid style
portrait from photorealist. He had continued painting portraits of people that
remains being displayed by museums and collectors in West Village and Bridgehampton, where he worked in New
York when he was paralyzed in 1988 because of a catastrophic spinal artery
collapse.
His father died when Chuck
Close was age 11, he had interest in photorealism
and hyperrealism technique and style and started painting most of his early
works in very large portraits based on images of family, friends, and artists.
Most of his portrait is only based on people’s faces.
Usually he would draw and paint images on his painting portraits, but the drawing technique he would use are ink, graphite, oil pastel, watercolor, and crayon, etc. and his colour painting technique includes Monochrome, Analogous, Complementary, Primary and Secondary, etc.
In Most of his portrait, he would draw any patterned diagonal grid all over the faces he paints and he would use the colours from the colour wheel, shades, tones, primary and secondary colours to make a shapes, colour blending, lines and patterns on each diagonal patterned grid. He would leave out the outlines and details of the face and just paint what left on their skin colour.
In the style of Chuck Close painting, I’ve used an image of my face on an A3 paper pasted in my sketchbook and drew a diamond patterned diagonal grid all over the face. Using the colour wheel and Primary and Secondary colours I would paint shapes, colour blending, lines and patterns on each diamonds.
My face on A3 paper has only got shapes and colours on each diamonds of the patterned diagonal grid covered all over except the jumper, hair, eyes, ears, neck and facial hair which I painted every one of them in different flat colours with black outlines for the details and the flat grey background I’ve painted with green lines going vertical and horizontal.
Usually he would draw and paint images on his painting portraits, but the drawing technique he would use are ink, graphite, oil pastel, watercolor, and crayon, etc. and his colour painting technique includes Monochrome, Analogous, Complementary, Primary and Secondary, etc.
In Most of his portrait, he would draw any patterned diagonal grid all over the faces he paints and he would use the colours from the colour wheel, shades, tones, primary and secondary colours to make a shapes, colour blending, lines and patterns on each diagonal patterned grid. He would leave out the outlines and details of the face and just paint what left on their skin colour.
In the style of Chuck Close painting, I’ve used an image of my face on an A3 paper pasted in my sketchbook and drew a diamond patterned diagonal grid all over the face. Using the colour wheel and Primary and Secondary colours I would paint shapes, colour blending, lines and patterns on each diamonds.
My face on A3 paper has only got shapes and colours on each diamonds of the patterned diagonal grid covered all over except the jumper, hair, eyes, ears, neck and facial hair which I painted every one of them in different flat colours with black outlines for the details and the flat grey background I’ve painted with green lines going vertical and horizontal.
The easy part of painting this was using primary and secondary colours to paint the shapes and patterns on each diamonds of the patterned diagonal grid covered all over my face and painting the jumper, hair, eyes, ears, neck, facial hair and background in different flat colours.
