Icons Project 1

For a long time, Ive been a huge fan of Chuck Close. In Close's work the basic theme is pixilation. Downgrading an image to the point where it seems irrelevant, ideally skirting the line between when exactly an image is and when it is not.


That said, I find his work profound and in the air of all artists, I intend to take the idea and run with it. Among the Icons that I will be painting will be his Holiness the Dali Lama, whom I have a great appreciation of.

In the piece that Im working on, of what the belong is just the digital preliminary work, I chose to stay with the original photographs black and whites as the photo uses the Grey tones as an example of the symbolic ethics of Buddhism that he represents. Grey being the middle path between white and black.

The below, as always goes from oldest to most recent, but in this case, shows the progression of grid and numbers into pixel image. click and then reclick the images as they open in a new window so you can understand the size. When this project is done it will be 4'x5.5'