A charcoal illustration using the seed word 'squares':
This was a fun little piece to do, drawing miniature copies of well-known paintings with all the faces turned into squares and having a square-headed girl looking at them. The paintings are: Whistler's Mother (Whistler), The Scream (Munch), Tahitian Women on the Beach (Gauguin), American Gothic (Wood), Self-Portrait (Van Gogh), Mona Lisa (Da Vinci), The Persistence of Memory (Dali), Girl with the Pearl Earring (Vermeer).
The hardest part about this piece was to figure out the proportions of all these paintings relative to each other. The above drawing is to scale in that, were you to place all these famous paintings on the same wall, this is how they would appear next to each other. The big surprise for me was how small Dali's Persistence of Memory painting is, and how large Whistler's mother is...
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| "Meanwhile, Elsewhere in Squareville", Charcoal on Paper, 16" x 20" |
This was a fun little piece to do, drawing miniature copies of well-known paintings with all the faces turned into squares and having a square-headed girl looking at them. The paintings are: Whistler's Mother (Whistler), The Scream (Munch), Tahitian Women on the Beach (Gauguin), American Gothic (Wood), Self-Portrait (Van Gogh), Mona Lisa (Da Vinci), The Persistence of Memory (Dali), Girl with the Pearl Earring (Vermeer).
The hardest part about this piece was to figure out the proportions of all these paintings relative to each other. The above drawing is to scale in that, were you to place all these famous paintings on the same wall, this is how they would appear next to each other. The big surprise for me was how small Dali's Persistence of Memory painting is, and how large Whistler's mother is...
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