Drawing your Room in a Surrealist Fashion

Our bedrooms are often our place of escape, it’s a safe refuge where we can forget about the everyday trials of our lives. For this assignment you will close the door, crank your favorite tunes, and draw your room.

The Twist is that you must distort, exaggerate, and manipulate the room’s content in
a dreamlike manner. Take a look at the “Return of Ulysses” by De Chirico.

Prerequisites:

1. Quality work capable of being a "Breadth" part of your portfolio.
2. It must include knowledge of perspective drawing. Your may distort the persperctive to achieve a surrealistic look.
3. Colored pencil or black and white, your choice. Consider the use of "spot color" to emphasize a particular object.
4. Size: 9x12 inch minimum,. White drawing paper. 
5.  Look at the work of Rene Magritte. He sometimes manipulates the scale of objects to create his surrealistic images. (The Human Condition)
6. In his work "Time Transfixed" Magritte depicts a normal living room with a fireplace. The twist, a locomotive is coming out of the hearth.

Due next Friday

Here are a coupe of works of art to inspire your imagination.

Personal Values, Rene Magritte

Time Transfixed, Rene Magritte

From Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Face of Mae West (Surrealist Apartment) Salvador Dalí 

Forbidden literature (The use of the Word), Rene Magritte

Cardboard Relief Print

We've arrived at the critical juncture where we must completely apply ourselves to our concentration. Remember all work must be submitted by May 11, 2018! That's not a lot of time. For those of you who took the AP Portfolio Development class last year, you should have a clear idea of what your concentration is and should already have completed many of your pieces. First year AP students need to take stock of their Breath pieces and get a concrete idea of what their concentration entails.

If you have work from last year to photograph, PLEASE bring it in!!

I want all of you to develop your Artist Statement within the next two weeks.

I will be introducing new media, but it is your responsibility to use that media to develop artwork within the context of your concentration.!

Keeping with my love of re-purposing materials, our next image will be a "Cardboard Relief" print.

The process is simple, take a look at this video to understand the technique.

Making a Cardboard Relief Print by Kimmy Tolbert

Image Roughed Out

Go over image in black Sharpie and start to peel back the top layer.

Coat the "plate" with matte medium.

You will ink the "plate" and print in the same fashion as a linoleum cut print. Don't expect perfection, one of the best part of experimental printmaking is the loose quality and the "happy accidents" that can occur.

Here are my results:

Some brushwork added.

Looser Look.

I made three more prints by spraying the drying ink on the "plate". Each one got progressively lighter.

Not satisfied I cut out lilly shapes out of discarded matte board. I inked the shapes and stamped over the original print. In a way, I was building the image up.

I used tracing paper to transfer the shapes to matte board.

Inked shape.

The stamped image.

I'm pretty happy with the end result!