For the first month of our current exhibition, The Original Influencers: Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, & Bruce Marsh, we are exploring the artist process of Mernet Larsen! Larsen has a process she calls rorschaching, or finding recognizable forms in abstract images and artworks, to find the subjects of her paintings. This month, we will be following that process and trying to create a narrative from abstract artworks using tracing paper, a material Larsen used to both trace images and create texture by pasting it onto her canvas. This is a good mental exercise to that will inspire you to find meaning in even the most abstract shapes! Materials Needed: Tracing paper Acrylic paint & paint brushes Canvas/Paper Collaging materials: magazines, photos, colored papers, etc. Glue Scissors Project Steps: 1. First, find an abstract piece of art that inspires you and use tracing paper to trace the elements you would like to use onto your paper. 2. Try to find recognizable subjects in the traced elements and use paint and collaged materials to bring them to life. 3. Add additional elements that aren’t in the original abstract artwork to help create a narrative. 4. Collaged materials can be cut into varying shapes and pasted with glue.
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