Famous Art Inchies and New Giveaway

Well I'm in the final stretch....only 4 more days of school left!

I know the blog has been quiet but I have been crazy busy as I completed some "artist in residency" programs and tried to fit in as much art as possible into my local school.


This is a project I did with a group of teachers last Fall.  I needed to show them some great art projects in a limited time frame.

Each inchie is based on a famous work or style of art.  Can you name them all?

If not don't worry we'll go thru them all.  I also want to introduce you to my new giveaway this week.  My friends at Acorn Media group are sponsoring this one again.

"Every Picture Tells a Story" is a 2 volume DVD set. There are 8 episodes examining 8 great works of art and the story behind them.  Hosted by U.K. art critic (The Sunday Times, U.K.) Waldermar Januszczak.

Mr. Januszczak provides a very insightful, often humourous examination of each work.  He describes the social climate of the time and each artist's place in it.

Although I was familar with all works discussed I learned alot and thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Januszczak's commentary.
If you are interested in winning a copy of this series stay tuned to the end of this post.


Onto the Inchie project.  I'm going to show you the how to as well as the larger project for each one. We'll break it down into 3 posts, 3 inchies each time so look forward to a week of inchies:)!



MATERIALS REQUIRED:

- 2x2 inch squares of wc (watercolor) or heavy white paper
- pastels
- disk tempera paint
- liquid tempera paint
- thick and fine tipped sharpies or markers
- glue
- colored paper
- white pencil crayon
- piece of scratch foam or foam tray
- stamps
- little headshots, pictures


PROCEDURE:

Now each inchie can be turned into a larger project. In fact some of these I have already posted.

The first square represents impressionism.   It's based on the gorgoeous impressionist landscapes of Monet, Van Gogh, Seurat,......I could go on.

I did a full tutorial HERE  for the Field of Poppies in the style Van Gogh.

For the inchie start by penciling in a very simple landscape.

Paint in with one layer of disk tempera.


Let dry.

With a very small brush go over the sections of the landscape with dots and dashes of color.



That's it for this one.

The next inchie reflects cubism and is based on this divided face project in the style of Picasso.









You can find the directions for the full sized project at THIS POST.

For the inchie draw out your face in pencil.  You want both the heads on view and the profile combined.

Add color with pencil crayons, (colored pencil), paint, or pastels.

Add definition by outlining with a fine sharpie.


There another inchie down.

The next inchie is based on the work of Piet Mondrian.







This is an example of a larger collage.

A dutch artist, Mondrian was very influential in his ideas on Modern Design.  He was reducing natural forms to their simpliest linear representation. His work is all about the horizontals, verticals, and primary colors.


Here is a picture of a Mondrian that I took on a recent visit to the Art Institute of Chicago.

For the large project you start by cutting strips out of black paper.

Using primary colored paper cut out squares and rectangles.


Arrange these on a piece of white paper and glue into place.

Place the black strips between the colored rectangles and squares.  Glue into place.

For the inchie you just do the same only in miniature.  For the black strips I found running some black paper thru the paper shredder very helpful.







Well that's the first three. We will continue on Wednesday.

On to the giveaway.




To enter to win "Every Picture Tells a Story" DVD series, you need to do one of the following:

- leave a comment on this post
- or send me an email at thatartistwoman@shaw.ca
- or like this post on my Facebook page.

You have until 11:59pm on Thursday June 28th/12 and I'll make the draw on Friday morning.

Only Canadian and U.S. residents please. Be sure to check out all the great titles at Acorn Media.










Good luck everyone and see you Wednesday with part 2 of our Famous Art Inchies.