Abstract Shoe Drawing

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality"

~Pablo Picasso


This assignment is a multi-step assignment aimed at assessing your understanding of many of the exercises in seeing and drawing that have comprised the first weeks of Foundations of Art.


These exercise have included

  • Replication (duplicaion) exercises

  • Upside down drawing

  • Blind Contour Drawings

  • Negative Space Drawings


Each of these exercises has a place in the Abstract Shoe Drawing

The process of this project is as follows…



POSSIBLE INSPIRATION FOR ABSTRACT DESIGNS...

Patterns in nature

Aerial views of the earth

Patchwork quilts


ART HISTORY INSPIRATION

Australian Aboriginal art

Kandinski

Stuart Davis