created by Helen2736 in Grade 7 at
Buist Academy
from school project "7th-PM-Sem.1-Bisa Butler Inspired Portraits"
art id #128036330
About this School Project (7th-PM-Sem.1-Bisa Butler Inspired Portraits)
ABOUT BISA BUTLER
Bisa Butler is an American textile artist best known for her colorful quilted portraits. After training as a painter, she shifted her focus to fibers. She typically depicts African Americans and learns as much as she can about the person she is portraying as she works from a photograph of her subject. Many of her portraits are of unknown people in ordinary life. Built up in layers of rich texture, Butler’s fabric colors are strikingly bold. Not only does she celebrate the lives of the people that she portrays, but she also honors the African American tradition of quilting. This lesson was inspired by Butler's rich, vibrant, quilted portraits and features a unique art technique. Rather than sewing, students created a reverse-painted acetate portrait to lay on top of a textured, torn painted paper collage. Students focused on contour lines and both analogous and complementary color schemes as they drew, painted and assembled their portraits.
