Friday, 23 June 2017

Drawing selfies, being comfortable with selfies and using them for art...

Oooo this is hard! We have done this each year from 2015 - now and it is really obvious that using a selfie to make Art is harder than it seems with self-consciousness taken into account.

Self portraits in Art - pretty much since Cave Art this has likely happened. Though there are more examples of rich pompous people paying an artist for a favourable portrait, rather than the artists portrait, it has been a 'thing' for a long, long time in Art history.

On Wednesday, when everyone is back from camp, we are going to run through this:




When I was at Art school a million years ago, Woodcut printmaking was my 'thing'.

Below are two examples of work I did around the idea of self portrait (the ugly colours rather unfortunately reflect my terrible dress sense at the time...)



Let's discuss all of this further on Monday.

I'm really pleased to see the drawing work that happened today with the selfies already:

 






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