Project Assignment #3 – “Upside Down Student Portrait Drawings” – So, here we have an assignment that was only about a little over a half a day. Students took turns lying on a comfy quilt and three students would gather around the lying model student at their head and draw the students head upside down. After a lecture called “Seeing in the Abstract” about learning to allow the subject to inform the artist what to draw as opposed to the artist telling the subject what it is supposed to look like. It is very difficult because our brains are so used to seeing peoples heads right side up that we take for granted what a head looks like. When viewed upside down, the brain goes into convulsions or spasms conceptually. The brain screams ‘wait this isn’t what a head is supposed to look like, what are you doing to me’!!!!!!!! It forces the student to rely on only looking at abstract shapes that make up the ‘reality’ of how a human head is constructed. Anyway, here are some excellent examples………
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