[image_with_animation image_url=”14063″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There was so much interesting material produced in day one of this two day workshop “Portraiture After Photography” I wanted to share it. The morning slideshow focused on photography as a tool for abstraction, launching from an in depth look at multi exposure photographs taken by John Deakin and related paintings by Francis Bacon.
The sketches below are all the results of four students, one teacher (me), phone cameras, a simple ink jet printer, photo paper (mostly reversed), simple green, and rubbing alcohol.
[image_with_animation image_url=”7073″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Portraits of people looking the other way. Works by: Gerhard Richter Oscar-Claude Monet James Abbott McNeill Whistler Kathe Kollwitz Andrew Wyeth (2) [image_with_animation image_url=”7074″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7076″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7075″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]” load_in_animation=”none
Today is Design Friday, so your challenge is something the graphic designers will likely be familiar with: figure/ground reversal. “Figure/ground” is a phrase that came from modern German Gestalt psychology. It refers to how our mind organizes forms, distinguishing an object (figure) from its background (ground). In the early 1900s Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin famously experimented …
Today is the 10th day of our 30 Day Challenge. We are 1/3 done! Sunday is observational drawing day, so I’m sharing an exercise from school, with a twist. Contour Lines “Contour” is the French word for outline, so contour lines are, quite simply, outlines. Contours describe the shape along the edges of a thing. …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8266″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Did you know there’s a special Seattle Artist League page where you can post your artwork? OMG Yes! Paintings by People is a Facebook group for past and present Leaguers. Contrary to the name (I started it when we were just a painting class), Paintings by People is not just …
Sketches from Portraiture after Photography
[image_with_animation image_url=”14063″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There was so much interesting material produced in day one of this two day workshop “Portraiture After Photography” I wanted to share it. The morning slideshow focused on photography as a tool for abstraction, launching from an in depth look at multi exposure photographs taken by John Deakin and related paintings by Francis Bacon.
The sketches below are all the results of four students, one teacher (me), phone cameras, a simple ink jet printer, photo paper (mostly reversed), simple green, and rubbing alcohol.
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