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| The resulting "I don't care how I look/didn't shower" hair. |
The guidelines were to abstract the composition by simplifying it or making it more complex if already in a simplified form. The mediums we had to use were gouache, india ink, sharpie, & collage. Therefore we had to produce four 6x9 compositions total.
Me not being able to choose a logo that I liked that I though could work out well, had to choose the more difficult of the two options. I chose to do Edgar Degas'
Prima Ballerina, which ended up somewhat horrible along with my time management skills (Let's do all 4 compositions the night before they are due!!). Needless to say, I went to bed around 4:30 am to wake up in time for my 9:30am class. Which was fun.... First off, I realized this was a bad choice of a famous painting for me to reproduce when I realized that I don't have much practice drawing figures, as one of Degas' favorite things to paint were ballerinas and that is exactly what was in my painting. Secondly, I had never used india ink before and I "experimented" with it too far apart from the actual time that I painted the composition, so my skill level was incompetent to begin with. But I did end up being really happy with the way my variation of the painting in the collage turned out. That composition alone
only took me 6 hours... So we'll just wait and see about the others. During critique my instructor did comment that the Sharpie & Collage were my two strongest ones due to how the figure in the foreground was united with the background and not isolated as opposed in the india ink & gouache.
So, with all of that said, here is original & the final products.
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| Prima Ballerina by Degas (original image). |
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| Gouache |
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| India Ink (Major Fail) |
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| Sharpie |
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| 6 hour Collage |
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| My roommates possibly questioning my sanity with the mess I made.... |
