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Faces with cardboard
Well, here we are. Here we are still trying to come up with some suggestions. After seeing a lot of sculptors and their work and still knowing that knowledge takes no place, I have chosen another path, that of practice. My intention is to base my work on the human face...
An apple in the tree. Watercolor
For this exercise we attach a tutorial to help you. Enlarge the photograph that will serve as a model. It is very similar to the one in the video and if you can print it. I think it can help to see the brushstrokes of the watercolorist but remember that the technique is very random....
Artistic recipes
Hello creators! Today we are going to propose you to make our own artistic materials such as modelling clay or paints with ingredients that we all have in the kitchen. Let's get to work or to the dough! Finger paint Edible glitter paint Sculpting paste...
Landscape
As a "window" to a landscape inaccessible for the moment, I wanted to propose you a small editing exercise (with "premiérè" or whatever program you have). It is about a montage with the music you like the most (if possible not longer than 3') and images...
For four little corners of nothing
We are going to propose to work around a story entitled: "Por cuatro esquinitas de nada" (For four little corners of nothing). Here you have the link to the story on YouTube. For the proposal, we only need a piece of cardboard can be a box of cereal or cookies. Some flat object...
Arcimboldo
I propose you to be inspired by the Italian Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Although he also painted "normal" paintings, he is best known for his strange faces composed of plants and animals. Portrait of Rudolph II ...
Customize T-shirts (with our initial)
MATERIALS: 1 cotton T-shirt wax shavings (plastidecor type) template with our initial baking paper cardboard iron We put the cardboard inside the T-shirt, to avoid staining the back, We sharpen our plastidecor with a pencil sharpener or...
Salvador Dalí
Hello! Do you know me? Exactly! My name is Salvador Dalí. Dali was a Spanish artist that many call crazy, he was flamboyant, provocative and controversial. One of the most eccentric figures in the world of the arts and, without a doubt, a genius. His painting is...
So close, so far (hands)
They are always close to us and perhaps because your left hand doesn't know what your right hand is doing, we ignore them, treating them as mere tools. Too often we forget that the hands are also the reflection of the soul, the memory of the life we have lived, the...
Optical sculptures
Op-Art or Kinetic Art is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions. It developed after World War II in New York. In abstract sculpture the use of these optical illusions causes the impression of movement, of hidden images, of...
Artistic diary
Hello creators! In this post we are going to propose you to create an artistic diary. What is that? Look for a notebook that you have at home or create your own with loose sheets; we can also make a small folder. Below you have a pdf to download here...
Learning to look
If anything characterizes the artist is his way of perceiving the world. Learning to look is nothing more than seeing the world from another point of view. We propose a simple exercise to make contact with our environment. To stop and be aware of what we see. We...