Project V: Found image > Collaged Realities



F O U N D  I M A G E S = 
C O L L A G E D  R E A L I T I E S

Found images are excellent mental and visual fodder for creating quick collaged studies.



Lari Pittman
Roy Lichentstein

Collage is an excellent way to kick start your creative imagination.
Jane Hammond


This painting exercise will not only get your creative minds flowing but will also allow you to explore and hone your compositional skills and technical abilities in your paint application.
Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

You will construct abstract spatial realities by way of overlapping images and color fields of high saturated color vs. low saturation, sharpness of painted form vs. atmospheric perspective.
Lari Pittman

This assignment will also give you the opportunity to understand tertiary mixing, high saturation vs. low saturation of colors and value ranges
Lari Pittman

The project offers you to explore and conceptualize local (actual) color of objects to be translated in optical (emotional/symbolic) color
Jane Hammond


Jane Hammond



Jane Hammond

Lari Pittman

James Rosenquist
  
James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist




Process ONE:
Find an overall printed back ground for your work from a printed image - this will be the foundation on which found images are laid

Allow for your image selection to make conceptual sense by way of finding similar relationships in shape and forms.
You may also use text as image
Found images are selected via common shape (and not thematic concept)

Experiment with shifts in scale that do not make sense and rotating your images upside down and on the diagonal (this painting will defy what we understand as landscape space with a horizon line)

Create 4 collages directly in your sketchbooks with a minimum edge of 5" x 7"
The scale of the collage should be doubled in your stretched canvas
Grid off your collage into 1" squares

Process TWO:
One of your collages will be the foundation for your next stretched canvas painting

Scale up each pencil square from the collage 1" = 2" on your stretched canvas 
(Thus a 5 x 9" collage will become a 10" x 18" painting)


Scale up onto your stretched canvas to 2” Thus, ratio will be 1:2 
Draw out unit to unit relationships on stretched canvas very generally

Process THREE:
Begin to create painting – matching background local colors – and work towards foreground
When painting, create areas of color from general color and shape to a more specific refinement as the entire painting is moving along


Translate local color from collage onto canvas – Primaries – Secondaries – Tertiaries – Analogous – Complimentary colors

Investigate full color palette and spatial realities through the translation of local color to optical expression

Recommendations:
Stay away from redundancy by bringing 2 images together that make visual sense (i.e. an apple and a banana)

Instead bring common shapes together (i.e. a banana and a child's smile)

Be careful not to bring iconographic symbols (text and image) that mean the same thing together
Instead, text IS form – use it imaginatively and expressively 

 student work






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