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Portraits in Family Shoes
What does a shoe say about the wearer?
Could your family be represented by drawing their shoes?
What arrangement of shoes would best depict your family?
Journal Exercise: Listing Exercise
In your journal you will create several lists to help you start this project. On the top of the page and going across it list
your family members. These will serve as column headings. If your family does not easily fit across the page turn so you
can make your list in landscape mode. Under each person list their shoes. Underneath, I have started a list for my
family. Start your list with shoes you see the person wearing the most, or that you think are particular favorites of the
family member who wears them. You need not list every pair of shoes that family member owns (especially if the
person owns 50 pairs of shoes), but try to list all of the shoes they wear often. You may then want to circle shoes you
think are particularly emblematic for each family member. Shoes that really show their personality or role in the family.
Mom
Dad Heather Meghan Meredith Erin Tracy Cashell Allison
Black Gowalks
Beat up lawn mowing tennis shoes
Taryn Black Wedge Sandals
Gold Platform Korks Sandals
Red Patent Kitty Heels
Dockers Brown Boat Shoes
Blue Clarks mules
Brown Loafers
Ryka lime green and grey sandals
Mule wedge loafer
Black Platform Flip Flops
Tan Suede flip-flop
Coral leather flip flops with cut out flowers
Slide on black Cole Haan Loafer
Surgery Clogs Teva sandals
Royal blue suede ballet flats Black Mary Jane
Black platform flip-flops with pink embroidered flowers and border
Doc Martins
White leather flip flop with gold connecting ring
Cordovan lace up dress shoes
Brown Clarks Sandals
Red gladiator sandals with short wedge
Nude leather peep toe tall wedge sandals
Teal Crocs ballet flat Super-tall wedge leather bootie mules
Brown woven fiber flip flop
Thumbnails:
Explore Layout options by doing small drawings of possible compositions. This is called “Thumbnailing”. Sometimes – if
the little drawing is a quite detailed the drawing might be called a “rough” or rough draft.
Thumbnails should explore a variety of layouts with which to depict the relationships in your family and personality
family members using shoes. You may want to review the many photos and paintings of family shoes found in this
handout for ideas. Thumbnails should always be sufficiently detailed to get a
clear idea of the layout and look of the final drawing. The thumbnails on the
top left are all done to plan a still life painting of one bowl of onions. You
should do at least 4 sketches to develop your own ideas for your family
portrait using shoes. You may want to arrange shoes and draw them in a
variety of ways for your layout sketches. Decide if shoes will be by
themselves or on the members of your family. Do not draw from memory.
Draw looking at the objects or from photos you take. Always place the
containing rectangle that depicts the edge of the paper or canvas around your
thumbnail or rough- otherwise your layout will not be clear. The edge
rectangle can be placed in from the beginning as in the example sketchbook
pages above or placed in a sketch after as in the example to the left.
Family Shoe Portrait:
Choose your most exciting composition from your thumbnails
and create your own “Portrait in Shoes” for your family.
Before completing your final you may wish to read the
following article about drawing correctly from observation:
http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/realistic-
observational-drawings).
Choose what you consider your strongest medium (drawing or
painting material) and create your portrait. Portraits should
be at least 11” x 14”. No outline drawings. The shoes need to
be shaded in color or black and white.
This is work for a Pre-AP class. All work should
demonstrate the idea that you are an advanced
student! These are appropriate examples.