Hello and Happy Monday! It has been F.O.R.E.V.E.R. since I’ve written a blog post, and here I am.
I hope 2021 is treating you well and you are safe, healthy, and happy!
Today, is my quarterly StencilGirl® Columnist Post and I am sharing a bit more behind my creative process with y’all.
The challenge this month was to create a project, inspired by a favorite artist, either past or present.
I have always admired Pablo Picasso, so it was an easy decision for me. Pablo had many art chapters, which are each beautiful and unique on their own, but the chapter I covet the most is his Cubism and Neoclassicism and Surrealism periods.
The Cubism period lasted between 1909-1912 and the following snippet is from his website:
Analytical Cubism is one of the two major branches of the artistic movement of Cubism and was developed between 1908 and 1912. In contrast to Synthetic cubism, Analytic cubists “analyzed” natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane. Color was almost non-existent except for the use of a monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre. Instead of an emphasis on color, Analytic cubists focused on forms like the cylinder, sphere and the cone to represent the natural world. During this movement, the works produced by Picasso and Braque shared stylistic similarities.
The Newclassicism and Surrealism periods lasted between 1918-1945.
Some of my favorite pieces from these periods are:
There is something so intriguing and engaging about these periods that draws me closer to the painting to look at the lines, shapes, and colors and wonder what he was trying to emote and communicate.
The uncomfortable faces and inaccurate features are the most perfect part of his paintings.
Inspired by these wonderful paintings I set off to create my own Picasso art journal page.
To create the collage material needed to the faces, I pulled out stencils, alcohol inks and my favorite fashion magazines.
I selected several larger faces for this technique. The process is simple – lay the stencil down and drip alcohol ink across the stencils in several colors. You don’t need to cover the entire surface, but just enough to allow the ink to bleed together.
Leave the stencil in place until the alcohol ink is completely dry. This is the key to success.
Once the alcohol ink is dry, remove the stencil and you have instant collage material. I love the texture created by the stencil and alcohol.
The rest is really up to you. I cut sections of each face and assembled them on my page to create a Pablo like painting. I am so pleased with how my art journal page turned out I think it is very Picasso!
Some of the stencils I used were:
Gridded
Cathedral Floor
StencilClub Nov 2019
Be sure to hop on over to the StencilGirl® blog and check out how the other participants were inspired by their favorite artist.
Tata for now!
Tina