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.
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.
I take it the teachers work is the face, which is amazing and I would love to understand how that piece was done.
ReplyDeleteI think I mostly understood what you did, but need to see what the end results were please! If these are the end results I am even more confused about this type or art!
Since I can't believe that Picasso and Paul Klee sat around cutting up their pictures and swapping halves over a bottle of vino, it still doesn't help me understand how a woman's face ends up looking like a bottom with cellulite!!! This has always been my problem. I can look at the pictures and think 'I love that!', but am stuck wondering how the artist got to that point or make make sense of what the painting is supposed to be about.