Saturday, July 17, 2010

A-Art History Self-portrait


Choose a portrait
from an art history
book, use any era, any media.
Take a self-portrait with
a digital camera. Combine
the two images. Use any color
medium; paint pastels, colored
pencils.

B-Bacon Portrait


Study the fantastic portraits
by Guiseppe Arcimboldo.
Gather the grocery store adds
from your junk mail. Cut out
the food adds and sort by color.
You can use all meat, all veggies,
etc. Sketch a quick contour
portrait of someone in your house
or use a mirror and draw yourself.
Cut and glue the adds to create
a contemporary Arcimboldo portrait.

C-Candy Wrapper Collage





Get a pack of your favorite candy
or gum, share it with others. Save
all the wrapping. Use a glue stick
to create a dynamic composition
using the wrappers.
Leave some space for
drawing/painting/collaging. Add
your own style to the collage.






















D-Dots







Study Suerat and other pointalist
impressionists. Use either a picture
in your d. book, or get an object from
outside (flower/leaf, etc.). Briefly
sketch the object. Use Qtips and
acrylic paint to add color and value.
Be sure to create a range of values.







E-Exaggerated Face



Study Picasso's Cubist portraits.
Using a mirror, draw both
front and side views of your
face parts in an unusual
arrangement. Add color or value.

F-Finish the Photo




Find an old photo at home; could be a
landscape, vacation photo, anything
with a good range of color.
Glue the photo in the center
of a primed page. Using acrylic paint
attempt to mix and match the colors
of the photo and extend the image
to the rest of the page.
Manipulate your brush to recreate
textures as close as possible.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

G-Garbage Art Collage







Garbage Art Collage- Recycle your old art,work you don't like or haven't finished. Add things from your junk mail, or a recycling box. Create a dynamic composition. Add a new image to become the focal point.




H-Heavy Metal




Heavy Metal - Create a design with
good positive and negative space using
scrap mattboard or draw with a heavy bead of white glue.
Wait for glue to dry (overnight). Then use a glue
stick to apply a layer of aluminum foil over the design.
Burnish, create wrinkles in the foil if desired.
Next add some india ink with a rag. Wipe on and off
until you have achieved the look of aged metal.
Add color if desired.














I-Illumination


1. Illumination- skim through magazines and lookfor a high contrast pic that shows extreme artificial lighting. Look for color distortion.
Draw then paint a piece of it in your d. book.











2. Illumination- use a flashlight and digital camera to capture an extreme high contrast
self-portrait. Some detail should be eliminated,
the focus is on color and value. Paint the self-portrait. Capture the mood.






J-Jeremy Fish















Study the artwork of Jeremy Fish (aka supafishal).
Create your own animal hybrid using 2 or more
creatures or objects. J. Fish favors a neutral color scheme.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

K-Kehinde Wiley


by Kehinde Wiley







Study Kehinde Wiley's work.
Get someone at your house to
pose for you, or use a mirror &
draw a figure from life for at least
15 minutes. Draw a pattern in the
background then bring the pattern
into the foreground.







L-Literal Living Room


Draw your living room.
Alter it, give it human
characteristics, bring it to life.
Add value.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

M-Metamorphosis


Metamorphosis- choose an image or word on a page.
Preserve it, but cover everything else with gesso.
draw the image tranforming into something else.
Fill the page.

N-Negative/Positive


by Piet Mondrian

1. Negative/Positive
Study Piet Mondrian's early work.
Set up and draw a simple still life,
change all lines into a + or- sign.


















2. Negative and positive space;
draw an object from life that has an interesting shape.
Add value. Next draw the negative space only,
shade inside.

O-Onion Portrait


Click on the link for detailed examples and lesson instructions of how to carve out and make an onion portrait.