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.

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.

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.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2Bhs8jE5k&feature=player_embedded

P-Pencil Critter/Plastic bag mosaic

From the book From Ordinary to Extraordinary by Ken Vieth (Davis Publishing)

Draw a simple sillhouette of an animal. Then fill the animal with pencils of varying sizes. Add color and value.

Plastic Bag Mosaic -use a piece of contact paper

cut and tear plastic shopping bags stick to the contact

paper to create the image of your choice. When finished

stick to a painted page.

Q-Quick Draw

Study the drawings of Giacometti. Have a friend or family member pose for you for about 10 minutes. Use markers, charcoal, pens, pencils, or anything else you like to draw then overdraw the image. Build up shadows and highlights. Keep strokes loose like Giacometti.

R-Recreate

Flip through magazines until you find a strange thought-provoking picture. Paste it into your book. On the next page reinterpret the image in a different style. Change color to black and white, or vice versa.

R-Recreate example #2

Use a word or piece of an image in your book,

recreate it two different ways on the opposite page. Use an unusual color palette, or shading style, or draw it backwards.

S-Surreal Animal

Study the work of Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Dorthea Tanning. Find a normal picture of an animal then alter it to create a peculiar surreal animal.