Name: Tess
Home: St. Louis
Saturday Art: failure
Hmm. I don't know where to start with this. Here, first let me show you a picture of my destroyed studio: the project wasn't worth it.
Yes, that's shredded newspaper. No, I wasn't upset with the news (no more than usual); I decided to do a torn paper collage kind of art thing. I had found a used art book about value a while back and thought I'd look through it for ideas about this drawing. In it there was a section about torn paper and how you should be able to make anything look three dimensional with only three tones: light, medium and dark.
Ugh.
It failed. Maybe I made it too small. I couldn't tear paper small enough for fingers or other details.
I couldn't make the right arm look like anything with only three tones. I suppose you have to practice these things.
Well, tearing the paper was fun.
Oh, yeah, the project. Here's the ugly old thing:
Is that a spotlight? What is that person doing? Who knows!
I'll look at it tomorrow. Maybe I can fix it. Maybe I'll redo it. Either way, I'm done for today.
Yes, that's shredded newspaper. No, I wasn't upset with the news (no more than usual); I decided to do a torn paper collage kind of art thing. I had found a used art book about value a while back and thought I'd look through it for ideas about this drawing. In it there was a section about torn paper and how you should be able to make anything look three dimensional with only three tones: light, medium and dark.
Ugh.
It failed. Maybe I made it too small. I couldn't tear paper small enough for fingers or other details.
I couldn't make the right arm look like anything with only three tones. I suppose you have to practice these things.
Well, tearing the paper was fun.
Oh, yeah, the project. Here's the ugly old thing:
Is that a spotlight? What is that person doing? Who knows!
I'll look at it tomorrow. Maybe I can fix it. Maybe I'll redo it. Either way, I'm done for today.
posted by Kaela | 1:22 PM
2 Comments:
Actually, I'm still impressed. I can see why you think this failed but it didn't -- at least, I think that it still has some interesting edgy stuff going on and I'm blown away that you can do that with newspaper. With newspaper. That's amazing. New uses for the Inquirer.
I love it! It's a cross-country skiier!
Dutti Stuntmother. I can't believe you could do that with just newspaper.
Hh
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