Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
Putting It All Together!
A course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
About the video: Putting It All Together!
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how I create a portrait/caricature of a well known figure. Going through the stages of gathering reference, doing an initial pencil sketch, collecting relevant objects and going through trial and error exercises, seeing what works and what doesn’t. I will give you important factors to consider when trying to create a likeness.”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: Putting It All Together!, 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
“PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER In this lesson, we're gonna start to put it all together. We talked about the process of creation, we talked about how to make a face. So I would like to share with you my process of creating a face. I thought of creating the face of Albert Einstein. What is the first thing to do? To gather references about Einstein, to look at his face. If possible, I would go to YouTube and see if there are videos, so I get to see how the person behaves, how they smile, how they are when they talk. In short, as much reference as possible. Don't be satisfied with just one picture or...”
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Course summary for: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
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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