The Foundry had another Art Imitates Art challenge this year. Each artist was given a piece of art made by a child to use as inspiration for a new piece. Artists were instructed to keep the basic shapes from the original in the new piece.
child's painting
I chose this painting to work from because when I first saw it I pictured real faces.
Friends With Many Toes
In the finished painting, Friends With Many Toes, I was trying to keep as close to the shapes and color as possible. It took several tries. I had to study from live models, too. I tried to remember what it was like to be a child just coloring. When I was in kindergarten all of my people always had to have five fingers and five toes. Even if they were stick figures, they always had eyes, noses, fingers and toes. The shapes in the child's painting I was working from didn't include toes, per say, so I drew some in with black paint.
The show Art Imitates Art II opened the First Friday of March, 2013.
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