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Project #4B: The Abstracted Self

Selfies in experiemental ink flows

10" x 8" image size on 14" x 11" paper size
Watercolor paper 140#
Paper oreintation = vertical

Rules:
1. Take a Selfie of yourself, portrait scale. Play with a variety of gestures and foreshortening your figure.

2. Print out in black and white copy machine

3. Use a hard pencil to fill in the general shapes of the image.  Press hard enough to emboss the paper underneath it. Alternatively, you may make soft pencil marks on the back of the image, so that when pressing down on it, the mark will transfer onto your drawing paper. 

4. Fill in positive form with flow of water, experiement with ink spots and salt. This area should be where the shadows are found in the Selfie image you have taken. 
Experiment with salt as it is a drying agent and can make beautiful crystalized abstract figures on your watercolor paper. 

Note: Overall this value should be the darkest you reach in this drawing

5. Allow to dry thoroughly before adding the background shapes with a waterflow and ink.  Note: Overall this value should be the middle grey in your drawing

6. Allow the lightest, high-keyed areas in the Selfie remain the white of the paper. They may also be, at the very least, the very lightest value range

Note:  High Contrast drawings, express the subject matter as being super flat. 

However, your drawings will be enlivened with the abstract marks accomplished with your waterflows and ink

Student Work examples: High Contrast drawings in two values / Sharpie marker
You will add your "twist" with value and media explorations in ink / H20 and salt

Student Work SP 2019
Part ONE







PART TWO - the value study drawing









 Student Work FA 2018






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