The Lost Sock : artist

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Everyone is an Artist

Picasso said,

"Every Child is an artist".

Why stop there. Keep going, don't let that feeling go.

Remember the days when you didn't care what people thought about your art?

Go back to that.

There are different avenues of art.

Picasso was a master artist at a very young age.

See..

Pablo Picasso. Science and Charity, 1897

Picasso at 15 painted this...

https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-11.php

One of Picasso's lasts paintings in 1971

https://www.pablopicasso.org/final-years.jsp

This is proof that you don't have to fit a mold of perfection. Perfection is boring.

Have fun, like Picasso. He was a big kid. His are was fun. He was experimental.

Or be like Jackson Pollock! He had fun with splatter paint.

He used the colors to show his emotions. He used gravity and force to control his drops.

He was having fun and being expressive.

SO should you.

Image result for jackson pollock most famous artwork

The end of Picasso's quite goes like this...

"The Problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Solution, DON"T GROW UP!

Create like a kid, or at least when it's time to create, go back to the ideas you had when you were a kid. Go into your "art zone", escape the world, be free to do it your way.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Robin Mead

RObin Mead is an amazingly adventurous artist that I have newly discovered.

She inspires me to be experimental with new techniques.

see more of her work on her blog page here...

http://www.insightsandbellylaughs.com/

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I have used some methods that I remind me of Robin Mead's pictures.

THis is using what I know to get me the results I desire...

1. CREATING A BACKGROUND

using markers (non permanant) make a design in the background.

I have used big dots, plaid lined, random doodles...

lots of designs work. The key is to keep your lines close together so that when we apply water later the ink will spread out further.

BIG DOTS

RANDOM DOODLES

concentric circles, zig zag

VERTICAL SCRIBBLE

APPLY WATER

Using a wet brush, start from top to bottom using a circular motion to move color around.

Mrs. Meleski's the grade class working (above)

complete the full paper with water brush and let dry...

Results for BigDot and Random Doodle designs below.

You can use colors to draw in more designs if desired. I would not do so much thought that it completely hides all past marker design. Be careful not to go overboard.

COLLAGE STYLE

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Use a half size sheet to pencil draw case, flowers and leaves on.

It's ok if objects go off page.

When glued down, you will just glue them going off page.

Remember to go light till you got it right.

The harder you draw, the harder to erase.

Go over with black permanent marker.

You can also exclude the flower vessel and just draw plants so that it looks like they are growing from the ground.

OUTLINE the objects with colored MARKERS you want them to be filled in with.

p.s. it's ok if you get out of the lines (YAY) cause it will be cut off later anyways.

Fill them in with a water brush...

See a clip of how to do the color here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EErNYg6k7do

Cut out each object.
* Try to keep as much of the sharpie black line as possible. It helps with emphasis.

Arrange and glue down onto background paper you created earlier.

The pieces you drew off the page need to be glued off the page.

Add Detail.

Draw in stems or any bugs you want .

MARKER ON MARKER METHOD

THis is a more transparent look to the end result.

I like it a little cause it shows you how colors effect eachother when they are overlay-ed.

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Plaid Posies

You can do plaid or any other design as long as you try to 80% fill the background up with color. the 20% will be filled in when the wet brush is applied.