Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
Happy Accidents
A course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
About the video: Happy Accidents
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you the importance of perceiving the happy accidents and how to create a system that nurtures their arrival. I will show you some examples of how happy accidents appear in my work. The secret is to find a way and a system to help the happy accident to arrive. How do you create that encouraging space in other creative fields? How do you learn to do it in life? ”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: Happy Accidents, which is part of the Domestika online course: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage. Discover a playful process to unleash and expand your creativity through the creation of portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“HAPPY ACCIDENTS In this lesson we will talk about happy accidents. I have already shared with you how I discovered this method of working, because of a happy accident, because of the box of matches, that I realized could be the moustache of Saddam Hussein. The truth is that the happy accidents always come, they are always there, and we need to learn to see them, and they come to me all the time. For example, when I made the portrait of Homer Simpson, I wasn't happy with my sketches. and I threw them to the garbage can and then I realized that the garbage can in my studio looked exactly like...”
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Course summary for: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
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Arts & Crafts, Collage, Creating with Kids
Hanoch Piven
A course by Hanoch Piven
Hanoch Piven is an award-winning illustrator, educator, and seasoned creative instigator. Piven’s artwork is unique in both form and method. By reinventing the meaning and use of everyday objects he forges associations between these and the subject of his creation.
Piven's art is playful, inclusive, and transformative. Since 1992, Piven's work has been published in newspapers and magazines across the world, such as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, London Times, Der Spiegel, and Israel's Haaretz. Piven is also the author of a series of award-winning children's books and apps, TV shows, interactive exhibitions, and advertising campaigns.
Piven has lectured extensively on creativity and its applications to life in diverse platforms across the world. Amongst them are The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Business School, Teach for All Global Conference, Duke University, The School of Visual Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Art Center of Design, Instituto Europeo di Design, and many more.
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- Level: Beginner
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