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Project A: Design your very own Piet Mondrain inspired artwork
Project A: Design your very own Piet Mondrain inspired artwork
Watch the video to learn about Piet Mondrain.
Open Sketch.io and use the rectangle tool or line tool to design your own Piet Mondrain artwork.
Remember to use only primary colours!
Project Idea 2: Create an abstract Mondrain-inspired artwork and incorporate the initials of your name or your your first name if you want a bigger challenge.
Below: Piet Mondrian’s Composition No. III, with Red, Blue, Yellow, and Black (1929) sold for $50.6 million, twice its high estimate of $25 million. It set a new record for the artist in 2015.
Source: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/mondrian-sells-for-50-6-m-a-new-record-at-christies-202-6-m-impressionist-modern-sale-4174/
Below is an example of a Mondrain-inspired art with the initials L and W. I've put the letters of my first and last name in the 2nd example.
Project B: Design your very own Yayoi Kusama inspired artwork
Project B: Design your very own Yayoi Kusama inspired artwork
Watch the video to learn about Yayoi Kusama.
Kusama has a global reputation for being a daring painter, performance artist, and sculptor. She is 92 years old.
"Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos/ Polka dots are a way to infinity." Yayoi Kusama (IG bio)
Open Sketch.io and use the circle tool to design your own Yayoi Kusama artwork.
Skills intro: Add a clip-art image and draw on it. Download a royalty-free image to add typography or draw on it. Group and copy elements to create patterns.
Project Idea 2: Be inspired by Kusama's pumpkins and design your own Kusama-inspired artwork with a vegetable or fruit shape.
Red Dots
Red Dots
Acrylic on canvas
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (100 x 100 cm.)
Painted in 2011
Pumpkin
Pumpkin
Acrylic on canvas
8 9/10 × 6 1/5 in
22.7 × 15.8 cm
Painted in 1990
Examples of Yayoi-inspired dot art on a fruit (clip-art)
Project C: Design your very own Wassily Kandinsky inspired artwork
Project C: Design your very own Wassily Kandinsky inspired artwork
Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky - the artist who "hears colours and see sounds".
Use Sketch.io to design your own Kandinsky-inspired artwork.
Skills intro: Learn how to use brush tools and draw straight lines. Experience how to create art drawing inspiration from music.
Discourage use of recognisable shapes like the star, heart and burst.
Source: https://wsimag.com/art/65301-on-painting-the-music
Composition 8
Composition 8
Painted in 1923
In the video above:
In the video above:
It talks about how Kandinsky makes the music turn into colours and how to listen to paintings:
It talks about how Kandinsky makes the music turn into colours and how to listen to paintings:
Quotes from the clip:
"Feeling that makes a painting is a lot like the feeling that makes music."
"Just like paintings are made of different colours, a symphony or song is made up of different musical instruments and notes."
"So it can be music that is full of colours or a painting full of colours and shapes that is full of music!"
Hear and see how these 2 music-art videos interpreted Kandinsky's artwork differently:
Hear and see how these 2 music-art videos interpreted Kandinsky's artwork differently:
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ART AND MUSIC: You've learned about Piet Mondrain. Watch how this jazz musician Jason Moran interprets Mondrain's artwork as a musical score!
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ART AND MUSIC: You've learned about Piet Mondrain. Watch how this jazz musician Jason Moran interprets Mondrain's artwork as a musical score!
TRY IT: Open Sketch.io and start creating your own Kandinsky-inspired artwork while listening to the music of Mozart. Avoid using recognisable shapes like hearts, stars, flowers etc.
TRY IT: Open Sketch.io and start creating your own Kandinsky-inspired artwork while listening to the music of Mozart. Avoid using recognisable shapes like hearts, stars, flowers etc.
Curious about abstract art? Watch this video to learn more!
Curious about abstract art? Watch this video to learn more!
PRACTISE!
Digital Drawing with and iPad and Apple Pencil / Stylus
PRACTISE!
Digital Drawing with and iPad and Apple Pencil / Stylus
If you have an iPad and Apple Pencil or stylus, you can follow these digital drawing exercise below to practise and improve your skills!
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