Here is the story.
Our art class was assigned to create a "Body of Work". After some intense staring at the ceiling I landed upon the idea of some sort of dancer as the subject of my work. I was thinking that I would include doodles, henna fashion, with an Identi Pen (small and large tipped, can probably be found in most art stores).
I also thought that I would glue chunks of paper with a color wash in watercolor on for the background. Below is my strange strategy for doing that. I basically just sprayed them with water and then put some water on and let it bleed down.
I rejected this idea when I realized it would be rather hard to do detailed doodles on such a rough surface. And then the M&M's began... Basically I walked to the living room stared at my painting trying to come up with an idea I felt comfortable with and then wanted more M&M's so I would venture to the kitchen to get some more. This happened at least ten times.
I finally did get a rough sketch down that I had to keep tweaking to get the body proportions right. Below are the pictures I took of the process once I got started.
I wanted to emphasize that the female's body does not have to be perfect, which is why some things are not completely in proportion with the typical photo-shopped body we see a lot in media. I tried to make the legs shorter especially.
The final product is mounted on black paper (the only thing big enough to frame it) and hanging on the wall in my high school's art department gallery.
First project done and starting on the next!
Have a happy week!
Sarah
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