| The students were introduced to Francis Bacon's Art work and crazy world. |
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We read an article form the previous month's Time magazine about the Franc's Bacon retrospective at the Moma in New York
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The students then made collages in the same compositional style as Bacon. That is a three dimensional space, with a pedestal and a figure on the pedestal. This was a great exercise and the results were really cool.
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| We then stated our own Bacon Paintings. The backgrounds were designed in Google Sketch Up. The program can manipulate shadows and create a great and logical 3D space. We edit it in Photoshop as well for color and value changes. |
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Here is my painted background. With out the texture add. Bacon always had a texture on a surface. I felt like I should add it at the end in case I need to make changes to the area. |
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I found a pedestal in the same perspective of my background, pretty close anyway. |
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I then used transfer paper to put my pedestal on my painting. |
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I then chose a photo to manipulate, the image is my son Pablo is messing around seemed like a good extreme image.
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and then I cut out the background. |
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I altered the image of Pablo in Photoshop, first brightness and contract then hue and saturation and then liquefy. Bacon would have loved this effect! |
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I then used transfer paper to put Pablo in the painting. |
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Finally, adding texture to the base and rings like Bacon it all came together. Not quite Bacon but the best I could do. The great thing is the students did a better job. |
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| Please check out the students' work. |
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