To ride along with her new love of Charlie Chaplin, she decided to paint Chaplin in black and white.
She got online and found a few images of him, chose one, photoshopped it, printed it, and painted it.
As we played around with photoshopping it (mainly playing around with what it looks like in different colors, what it looks like blurred or sharpened or with enhanced contrast), we talked about light and shadow, reviewed what we've learned in the past about drawing being little more than copying lines and shapes, and that to most successfully paint Charlie Chaplin, she should start looking at him not as a person, but as a blob made up of different shaped blobs of white, gray, and black. So she painted white, gray, and black blobs to get this:
As you can see, she did pretty darn good, with the exception of the face. That's not unusual. We, as humans, have such a close connection to the human face that even the best of us have a hard time separating ourselves from it to the point that we can simply view it as a series of lines and shapes of color.
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