Assignment:
The first creative project is to create a two-dimensional visual work (drawing, painting, photograph, video, collage . . .) in imitation of a work that you like from the textbook. (If you work with a piece that isn’t in the textbook, please provide me with an image of the original to accompany your project.)
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For the Creative Project 1 I found it very difficult to choose just one piece to work with. I decided to recreate, and blend, Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night and Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory. I chose these pieces because both have meaning in my life and also I thought it would be fun to blend the pieces together, while at the same time making them my own. As mentioned in my introduction post The Persistence of Memory was the inspirations for my tattoo's, where I have had the clocks set to my sons' birthdays...it's almost cheating at having a bad memory :). The Starry Night was chosen because my 6 year old son Griffon has been obsessed with this piece. He came home from school one day, busted out the crayons, started drawing, and bam! About 15 minutes later when I saw what he was working on, it was obvious what he was recreating, he got a big smile on his face and said "It's a Van Gogh...something like Stars at Night?...he's an artist". Ever since he has been drawing Starry Night on a weekly basis proclaiming "I am an artist you know". So when the project was assigned I had to include both pieces, hopefully that's okay to do.The first creative project is to create a two-dimensional visual work (drawing, painting, photograph, video, collage . . .) in imitation of a work that you like from the textbook. (If you work with a piece that isn’t in the textbook, please provide me with an image of the original to accompany your project.)
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| After about 10-12 hours of work here is the finished piece. I like to call it A Persistent Night. |
And here is a video of the layers being assembled...hours worth of work reduced to a 1 minute video