Saturday, August 24, 2013

Last of the Vyner St workshops - Deconstructing Deconstructions! with Patrick Simkins

Warning this wont make sense and the pictures are all at different angles as its just to remind me and I cant be bothered rotating pics.  I have included 2 works by the teacher who was an artist for the Olympics last year - a painting of athletes, and a head of a girl made with torn up paper pieces pined onto board.

The days was very freeing and results were surprising.  Will def try some more, some also in photoshop perhaps.

1. Looked at how representational art has been deconstructed thru the various art movements starting with impressionism and how current artists are doing it.

2. Drew in pencil a still life, 4 times under various restrictions - 40 secs, one continous line tc.

3. Drew portrait of person sitting next to us on top of 2 of the still lives

4. On 1 of these and one of the still lives with no portrait, traced geometric shaped cards - square, circle  etc.

5. The 2 pics without geometric shapes, we cut in half to give 4 halves.  On 2 halves coloured in contrasting colour with oil pastels.

6. Swapped a half with neighbour, taped to our own half then drew over it.

7. Coloured one of last 2 halves then cut into strips.  Kept 1/3 then putmrest into communal pile, taking back enough to glue onto a blank sheet to create a strip owrk.

8. On reamining 2 whole works that we have drawn geometrics on, we cuts out the shapes then used rest of the drawing a cuttout to place over strip picture to create new works reminiscent of some famous works we were shown - cant remember names at moment.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013