Rouault Stain Glass Portraits

DISCUSSION: 

Portrait: drawing of the face

Go over the face and where things fall on the face

Proportion

Complementary Colors? what are they? where do we find them?

what do they create in a work of art?

ARTIST: GEORGES ROUAULT (born May 27, 1871-Feb. 13, 1958, Paris) 

French painter.

His apprenticeship in a glazier's shop restoring medieval stained glass (1885 – 90) influenced his mature style as a painter. 

After an early academic period, his style evolved toward Fauvism before he established a highly personal form of Expressionism. 

An ardent Roman Catholic, he painted subjects apparently fallen from grace tragic clowns, and pitiless judges. 

After 1914 his subject matter became more specifically religious, with greater emphasis on redemption, 

He shifted from watercolor to oil. 

His layers of paint became thick and rich, his forms simplified, and his colors and black lines reminiscent of stained glass.

In the 1930s he produced a splendid series on Christ's Passion, while reworking many earlier paintings. 

His series of clowns in the 1940s are virtual self-portraits. 

He also produced many engravings as well as ceramics, tapestry designs, and stained glass.

PROJECT: 

Step1: gather supplies

Step 2: draw a portrait on your page do you best to place thing s accordingly

Step3: begin by mixing complementary colors and see what new color you make add in some flour

Step 4: lighten and darken those new colors by adding in white and black

Step 5: Use your new colors to color in your portrait

Step6: color in your background

Step7: fill in your line in black so your portrait gives of the appearance of stained glass

Step 8: clean you mess

MATERIALS:

Brown paper

Pencils

Paint

Water 

Brushes

Flour for paint