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- Hi Mr. G here
with another session of RAP Sessions, Recycled Art Projects.
Today, we are going to do, what's called the Skewed View
and we're going to take an existing picture and change it.
So, I have some images that I picked right here.
One of a gentleman sitting over a sink
this made me say, hmm,
what is that guy doing?
Why is he doing it?
And for what purpose?
I also had another image that was really appealing to me
and really quite colorful portraits of what looks like to be
some indigenous people.
But I love the color and the vibrance of this piece too.
And the third piece that I picked in gloss
was just a design piece with some nice tonalities
and some flat colors.
Also I picked a piece of one of my favorite artists,
Miss Aretha Franklin.
And this one is in a matte.
Now I wanna talk to you guys about
the difference between Gloss,
or something with the high sheen that you might see
in a magazine, and
a Matte finish, or something that's duller
that you might print off your printer
or you might see in a newspaper
or a publication like that.
Okay.
These are the only materials that you're going to need
is your image
and paint markers,
colored pencils.
I'm gonna use some chalk.
And so we're gonna get started.
And I decided that I would start off
with the matte image because I haven't figured out
what gloss image I wanna quite use yet,
but I am gonna start off with the matte image
and I have some chalk here.
So you might have chalk rock lying around on your house.
You might have pastels.
Both of those would be deemed appropriate,
but I'm going to start my defacing or changing of my image
by using the pastels.
Now you'll see that I'm using some techniques
to mute out the color.
So it's not so stark.
You can do this throughout your piece.
Now I'm adding places where I want that accent
to be that yellowish color.
And then I'm blending it into piece.
Now this can be done with paper towel
if you don't wanna get anything on your fingers,
although I suggest using your fingers.
Your fingers have some natural oils
that help enhance a piece.
And that will soak into the paper.
It works a little harder on gloss,
and we probably wouldn't use chalk on gloss,
but I'll show you what we can use on gloss
to make a picture pop.
And again, whatever colors you have available
feel free to use,
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Remember that you're allowed to move your paper around.
It doesn't have to stay in the same spot.
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And you'll notice how
the oils in my fingers are starting to blend.
The pastels are the chalk.
Lets add another color to it.
What would be addible but a white for the highlights.
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And I'm applying this color arbitrarily around.
You can have a sequence
or if you have a way that you think
that you want it to look, you can apply it.
A lot of stuff with this type of art is trial and error.
So you're going to play around.
You're gonna have some fun.
You're gonna get what I would call muddy.
And I think that muddy is really cool.
It's fun just to dive into something.
It doesn't always have to be this glowing masterpiece.
And sometimes if you develop the skills
of using certain materials,
this is what this could be useful for.
So have fun, I can't stress that enough.
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And I'm just gonna add one more color,
give it a little bit more color coming through there
and maybe a little color to her face.
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And then I might embellish with a colored pencil
a little bit too.
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Well, that's how far I've gotten so far,
I might add some more touches to it.
I might leave it like it is.
Now, I think that
I want to explore working on a gloss piece with you guys.
So again, I'm gonna give you the choices
that I have to choose from.
The gentleman in the sink,
the vibrant color portraits of indigenous people,
and just the design shape.
And I think...
- [Woman] Heard of that from ancient grudge,
break to new mutiny.
Ancient grudge.
This is not your neighbor left their garbage on your lawn
the other day and so you're kind of mad about that.
Ancient grudge.
This grudge goes back.
Even the word, grudge.
That tells you a lot about how big this is.
This isn't just a small squabble.
This is a grudge.
- When we worked with a matte finish,
it comes up really flatter.
The colors are vibrant, but they come out flatter
and they're not popping as much as the other one.
All right, I'm gonna start to add some things to this,
just to have some fun with that.
Then I might decide that I wanna use another color
so I'm going to.
Again, there is no right or wrong.
See how the materials that you're using
are working on the surface that you're drawing on.
Experiment.
The only way that you become a better artist
is to go out and experiment.
So don't be afraid.
It's actually quite fun.
And I also wanna talk to you guys
about using maybe some techniques.
I've added some line work here on this,
and let's say that you wanted to do some line work.
Let's say that you liked this.
You can look at weight of line.
Here's a thick line.
Here's the thinner line.
Here's a line that's broken.
Can also look at things which is called pointillism,
which is a series of dots to represent shading.
And then you can also look at maybe some design aspects,
adding a swirl,
whatever you might wanna add to that,
you're more than welcome.
I'm gonna do a little bit more embellishing
and again, don't rush yourself.
Enjoy the process of working with different materials
and changing an image to fit
your thought pattern.
And things don't always have to look like
they did in the original picture.
This does not look very much like
the original picture anymore, and that's okay.
And you don't have to disuse materials
that you draw with with your hands.
If you wanted to use paint, you could use a sponge.
There's lots of different materials that you could use.
So, please experiment, have fun.
And thank you for your time today.
I hope that you enjoyed changing the view
of an existing picture by using different mediums.
Explore, have fun.
And thanks again.
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