Creative Artist's Diary: Define Your Visual Language
Classification of Materials
A course by Armando Mesías , Artist
About the video: Classification of Materials
Overview
“Now I will explain how to choose and classify the different supports for collage depending on your project. I suggest you look for both new and reusable materials from different origins that can be redefined in our final pieces.”
In this video lesson Armando Mesías addresses the topic: Classification of Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Artist's Diary: Define Your Visual Language. Awaken your creativity by experimenting with materials and new ideas through drawing, collage, and watercolor.
Partial transcription of the video
“Categorizing Our Materials Now you'll learn to collect and classify materials. It'll be an exercise to incorporate elements and discard them as well in which you'll have to change the usual way you see things to add new elements and languages to your final composition. I want you to find them in a place you'll consider unexpected --your own house. Many of the things you use daily, such as purchase tickets, envelopes, and old notes, will be reinterpreted and given a new meaning within the compositions. We'll be able to look with new eyes at those elements we used to ignore. This blend of ele...”
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Course summary for: Creative Artist's Diary: Define Your Visual Language
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Armando Mesías
A course by Armando Mesías
Armando Mesías is an artist whose work focuses on large-scale drawing and painting in different formats. You can find his art in his studio or in art collections, private institutions, and galleries.
The aim of his work is to start conversations that can only be approached from subjective experience. He thrives off experimenting with different visual languages like oil painting, drawing, or collages, as well as different materials ranging from traditional staples to mediums you’d never expect.
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