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