xBillyBrownx Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Okay I'm sorry to bother you with this but I really don't know where else to go.. And I know MFCers have a lot of talent and creativity and I know your advice would be extremely valuable.. So please bear with me, will you? I am currently planning my art exam for my AS course.. Which happens to be this coming week, on Tuesday to be exact. And I have to have come up with an idea which is linked to my chosen topic and have everything planned by then. My chosen topic Networks and Transport (strange I know).. Anywho.. So I decided on what photo to use for my final piece, which is a good step (but certainly not enough). This is the photo I chose (which I took from the plane on my way to see Mika:wub2:): It's obviously very difficult and detailed, but it's one of the best I took.. And I also decided to use the style of the following artist: However, I don't know what materials to use.. This guy uses NOODLES.. Which would probably be a bit difficult/insane to use.. So I'm not quite sure.. So do you have any suggestions? Any idea how I could do this? What do you think about the whole idea in general? Please let me know all of you thoughts:wub2: And wish me luck:naughty: Goodluck to anyone else who's going through the same madness. Thanks!
JoseOle Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Nice concept! I'm not in a very creative mood at the moment, but maybe you could use a fork or something... Good luck with your project!
xBillyBrownx Posted April 29, 2008 Author Posted April 29, 2008 Nice concept! I'm not in a very creative mood at the moment, but maybe you could use a fork or something... Good luck with your project! Ahh yes possibly! That would actually be worth trying! Thanks a lot Anyone else
LadyGodiva Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Oh very nice pictures! for some reason i see a head with crazy hair in the first one lol. i have to go before thinking of anything brilliant-- toothpicks maybe? colored ones even i'll try to think of more later lol
xBillyBrownx Posted April 29, 2008 Author Posted April 29, 2008 Oh very nice pictures! for some reason i see a head with crazy hair in the first one lol.i have to go before thinking of anything brilliant-- toothpicks maybe? colored ones even i'll try to think of more later lol Haha it does look quite strange so i guess that's possible:naughty: This is a great idea! Okay let me know Thanks
DanaCheaib Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Those wooden barbecue sticks.. you can easily pain them... Anyway the toothpicks are the exact same thing but shorter, hehe.
Finkster Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Straws? Or sponges maybe? Sorry, I'm not very creative.
DanaCheaib Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Or use one of these green things.. ahh I suck.
Suzy Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Yarn. Elastic bands. Scraps of fabric or plastic bags, wires.
Suzy Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 I'm surprised Phunkygal hasn't yet suggested duct tape.
Finkster Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Yarn. Elastic bands. Scraps of fabric or plastic bags, wires. I like the scraps of fabric idea.
stephaniedy2k1 Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Ooh it looks really fun, very creative and open to your individual interpretation. I think id maybe use string, coloured strips of wire or wire then paint over it with paint mixed with glue so it sticks, coloured wool, pipe cleaners (those coloured bendy things) or maybe lollipop sticks! (Always a way to get mika related things into daily life ) Mmm thinking, im trying to put my 5 years of primary education training into practice, the amount of hours i ve spent collecting lollipop sticks and pipe cleaners for my class to use making junk models, you d think id be alot more inspirational, sorry! If i think of any thing else i ll let you know!
LadyGodiva Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Ooh it looks really fun, very creative and open to your individual interpretation. I think id maybe use string, coloured strips of wire or wire then paint over it with paint mixed with glue so it sticks, coloured wool, pipe cleaners (those coloured bendy things) or maybe lollipop sticks! (Always a way to get mika related things into daily life ) Mmm thinking, im trying to put my 5 years of primary education training into practice, the amount of hours i ve spent collecting lollipop sticks and pipe cleaners for my class to use making junk models, you d think id be alot more inspirational, sorry! If i think of any thing else i ll let you know! Lollipop sticks and lollipop wrappers for color!!! Get eating! ....well, sucking..........okay i'm done hehe =]
chickadee Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 I too was going to suggest string, but what about yarn or threads? You can get many different colours, thicknesses, textures etc. What are you using for the background? Paint, paper collage, wallpaper paste (or whatever it is you use for making paste paper)?? I don't know exactly what you have in mind... Oh and if it was me, there would have to be metallic elements, but that's just because I love seeing that kind of thing in pictures:blush-anim-cl: How big is the finished article going to be?
chickadee Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 Actually, I have another question... How does that guy use the noodles? Are they actually on the finished paintings or does he do like a resist thing with them and apply paint etc over them and then remove them to leave a channel of colour? I can't quite work it out from the pics themselves...
xBillyBrownx Posted April 30, 2008 Author Posted April 30, 2008 Oh wow thank you all so much! These are amazing ideas! I think I'll have to try some of them out and see what works best! Chickadee - I'm not quite sure how he uses the noodles. But I think he just sticks them on with glue? And then paints over them? I'm gona use acrylic paints and paper collage for the background I think.. SO what do you think? Thanks again!
xBillyBrownx Posted April 30, 2008 Author Posted April 30, 2008 Here's a little update.. I tried using toothpics and small beads.. This is what it looked like: What do you think?
musicfreak Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 wow that looks really amazing!! what it the artist's name that uses the noodles? i'm in art history at the moment, and all this is soo interesting! i'm glad you found something to use:thumb_yello:
xBillyBrownx Posted April 30, 2008 Author Posted April 30, 2008 wow that looks really amazing!! what it the artist's name that uses the noodles? i'm in art history at the moment, and all this is soo interesting! i'm glad you found something to use:thumb_yello: Thanks a lot!! Wow that's really interesting as well:thumb_yello: Is it fun? The artist's Udomsak Krisanamis..
Finkster Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 Shahd--you're amazing! *is glad you're working on the Billy Brown mug with the rest of us artistically challenged folk who joined*.
xBillyBrownx Posted May 2, 2008 Author Posted May 2, 2008 Shahd--you're amazing! *is glad you're working on the Billy Brown mug with the rest of us artistically challenged folk who joined*. Thank you!! Actually you guys are really creative so I'm glad too:wink2:
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