Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
The Self Portrait
A course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
About the video: The Self Portrait
Overview
“Creating a self portrait is a wonderful way to practice all that we have been talking about in this course. It is an art project driven by a lots of content (we know a lot about ourselves) and by intrinsic motivation (we love to talk about ourselves). ”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: The Self Portrait, 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
“THE SELF PORTRAIT In this lesson I will explore my own individuality. Remember that we talked about the connection between individuality and creativity. In order to be creative, you really need to know yourself, to hear your inner voice. So I brought here many objects that I believe maybe have some connection to me. So I have here a purple board, purple is one of my favorite colors, and let me get some shapes on top of it. I have a round head. So I just put the very generic circle here. And let me put also a black torso below. Ok, so let me tell you about myself by the objects that I brough...”
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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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