I finally finished my piece that depicts an Ecuadorean weaver.Last week Rayna showed her process on a piece she was working on and suggested that others talk about and show some of the process of putting a piece of art together. So I will try to retrace some of the steps involved in this piece.
I have a number of photos of weavers from Otavalo in Ecuador that I have taken over the years. Here are a couple.
I made a sketch based roughly on the photo on the right. I decided I did not want her to look photographic or quite so specific.
I had been looking at a book my son-in-law gave me of paintings by an Ecuadorean artist named Eduardo Kingman and I liked the strength and simplicity of his work.
I did another sketch of a simpler, more iconic face and knew that was more the direction I wanted to go.Tomorrow I will talk more about getting the image to cloth.
Thanks for sharing. It's always so interesting to see how others approach their work!
ReplyDeleteI love how she turned out and it's interesting hearing about the process. How big is this piece? (It's so hard to get a sense of scale online if the artist doesn't list dimensions!)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful piece, and I enjoy seeing how you came to the idea. I like to look at a lot of different sources too, as well as my own photographs.
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