Here, I replicated a Chuck close piece, carefully studying his unique painting techniques. As with most of Close’s work done in his signature style, the portrait is very abstract with the use of mark making and repeated circular patterns, which create the final image. Chuck's painting technique is similar to a pixelated effect.
When viewing his portraits from a distance, these squares appear as a single unified image, but viewed up-close, the painting can be visible in its separate segments of colour and pattern. Each square within the grid is filled with blobs of colour, and painted rings with a contrasting background which, when viewed from a distance - the eye blends the mixed colours and creates a 'visual average', revealing the painted photographic image. I used a mixture of acrylic and gouache within this piece.
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