Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
Creating a Likeness
A course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
About the video: Creating a Likeness
Overview
“In this lesson we will look together at what helps communicate a likeness. It is quite a mystery. I would say that the most important reminder is always to look at the large forms. They are our first impression of a face. The head shape, the hair, the way the head sits on the body. Also, the colors we usually associate with the person. I will tell you some other points to make sure you become more aware of what makes us look like ourselves. ”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: Creating a Likeness, 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
“CREATING A LIKENESS In this lesson I would like to share with you what I've learned about creating likenesses. I'll be honest with you. It is a difficult topic to easily teach, but I believe that there are a couple of parameters that I can share with you that will help you create a drawing that will end up looking like a specific person. This will be a theoretical class, so bear with me because there are many images that I would love to share with you. Let's start by looking at the image of William Auerbach Levy. Levy was a famous caricaturist in the mid 19th century. He was famous because ...”
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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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