Today in class, we conducted a very memorable experiment. There were 4 stations with printmaking, painting, ink and oil pastels at each station. You needed to create a piece of artwork using each of those tools, however you needed to take down 4/5 of your fingers, leaving 1 finger on each hand free and this finger could not be your thumb. This exercise taught us that not every individual has all limbs that the rest of us have, and this taught us what it was like to be in their shoes. It was a very memorable exercise because it taught me to problem solve and work with what I was given. I was given a series of materials and 2 fingers, therefore I would create a piece of artwork using that.
I went home and painting a series of gestural drawings using one of my favorite mediums; ink and several paint brushes. I (attempted) to paint a portrait, a dog and a flower. I say attempted, because I took away my sight and I was blindfolded while creating these pictures. It was very difficult because I am not used to not looking at my artwork while I am creating it. My process is photographed below:
This was very difficult to do and I was very tempted to look at the pictures while I was creating them! I actually did something very similar to this when I took classes at FIT in NYC a few summers ago. I had to draw a picture without looking at the piece of paper.
Below are my completed drawings:
Portrait
Dog
Flower
Here are some videos of me below drawing these pictures with ink:
