Guided Course: Create a Portrait Using Everyday Objects
A guided course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
Create expressive portraits using everyday objects, exploring collage techniques, caricature, and facial expressions for unique artistic results
Discover the art of creating unique portraits using everyday objects through an engaging exploration of collage techniques. Dive into exercises that enhance your perspective, encouraging trial and error while emphasizing the creative potential of limitations. This approach unlocks a new way to view ordinary materials, boosting both flexibility and artistic intuition. By mastering these techniques, you transform common items into components of imaginative compositions, seeing the world through a fresh creative lens.
Focus on the intricate details of facial features and expressions, learning the subtleties of caricature and visual hierarchy. Delve into the unique traits of individual faces, crafting portraits that convey personality and emotion with unconventional materials. This journey culminates in the creation of an expressive facial collage shaped by personal interpretation and creativity. Embrace a new artistic challenge, merging traditional concepts with innovative methods to produce distinctive and lively portraits.
What will you learn in this online course?
12 lessons & 7 downloads
- 17 students
- 12 lessons (1h 20m)
- 7 additional resources (1 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English, German, Spanish, Spanish (Latam), French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Create a unique portrait by mastering collage techniques with everyday objects. Develop artistic intuition through trial and error, learn to assemble facial features and expressions, and craft a distinctive facial composition that conveys personality and emotion using unconventional materials.
Who is this online course for?
Aspiring artists and creative enthusiasts eager to explore imaginative collage techniques using everyday objects will find this course enriching. Perfect for those who appreciate the art of facial expressions and wish to enhance their artistic intuition through innovative, hands-on projects.
Requirements and materials
No extensive prior knowledge needed, just a curious mindset. Gather everyday objects like buttons, keys, or bottle caps, and some basic art supplies such as scissors, glue, and paper. A willingness to explore creatively and embrace happy accidents is a plus.
Hanoch Piven
A guided 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.
Content
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Create a Portrait Using Everyday Objects
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Podcast: Error, Play, and Accident: Chance as a Creative Tool
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The Collage Technique
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A Fresh Way of Seeing
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Trial and Error
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Happy Accidents
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The Power of Limitations.
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Flexibility and Adaptation
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On Caricature
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Visual Hierarchy on The Face
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Facial Expressions
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Creating a Likeness
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Putting It All Together!
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Final project
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Guided Course: Create a Portrait Using Everyday Objects
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