I made these as gifts for Faw for her birthday. I made her guess what "it" was with these clues:
1) Starts with the letter "W" and has the letter "A" in it (Works of Art)
2) Has 10 letters
3) She'll love it
4) Her mom would love it too
5) It has the color red and white in it
6) It's 100% recyclable
7) Somewhere in it lies a right angle
Well, she guessed it (only she didn't know then) but I did tell her I won't confirm or deny her guesses, but that didn't stop her from trying to convince me to give her another clue. She'd claim she already guessed it and challenge me to guess what I thought her guess what. Yeah right. This baiting and guessing went on for a month. Rightly so, because it took about that much time to make these and have it framed.
Once I've given her the drawings (all framed and neat), she asked why the large red dot on one of the pieces.
I told her I just had to put it there. Sometimes, when creating or making anything, it pays to take heed of your impulses.
Of course I have my reasons but this time, I'll keep it to myself.
The drawings were a fine demonstration on how the brain once taught to treat a mark or symbol as "something" then it will keep to that rule as long as the mark or symbol is applied consistently as well. I mean, come on, how can you accept squiggly lines as shading in the first place? That was my theory when I decided to doodle in the figure 8 all over the drawings and I was surprised how nicely it worked.
The whole exercise got me thinking about stylizing some elements in a painting and passing it off as modelling.
1) Starts with the letter "W" and has the letter "A" in it (Works of Art)
2) Has 10 letters
3) She'll love it
4) Her mom would love it too
5) It has the color red and white in it
6) It's 100% recyclable
7) Somewhere in it lies a right angle
Well, she guessed it (only she didn't know then) but I did tell her I won't confirm or deny her guesses, but that didn't stop her from trying to convince me to give her another clue. She'd claim she already guessed it and challenge me to guess what I thought her guess what. Yeah right. This baiting and guessing went on for a month. Rightly so, because it took about that much time to make these and have it framed.
Once I've given her the drawings (all framed and neat), she asked why the large red dot on one of the pieces.
I told her I just had to put it there. Sometimes, when creating or making anything, it pays to take heed of your impulses.
Of course I have my reasons but this time, I'll keep it to myself.
The drawings were a fine demonstration on how the brain once taught to treat a mark or symbol as "something" then it will keep to that rule as long as the mark or symbol is applied consistently as well. I mean, come on, how can you accept squiggly lines as shading in the first place? That was my theory when I decided to doodle in the figure 8 all over the drawings and I was surprised how nicely it worked.
The whole exercise got me thinking about stylizing some elements in a painting and passing it off as modelling.
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