Artful Prompting, 8
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Our prompts this time around were: Spring and Agamographs! I only recently learned what agamographs were and therefore had no experience making them. Enter YouTube. Since we had "spring" as our other prompt, none of us went with the more graphic style that seems to work well with this type of art. I learned quite a few do's and don'ts in this process, such as: Small details are pointless because they will be lost "in transition."
It would have been better to do videos of our artworks, but I don't have that kind of patience or bandwidth. Hope the photos will at least give an inkling of the final products. 😄
First is a photo of the completed artworks before cutting them up, along with the first construction steps (sadly, I forget to photograph everyone else's before they cut and pasted them. As I said, this was a learning process):
I did mine in acrylic with some colored pencil for details.
Daughter's (watercolor):
With hers, we learned the folly of using too-thin paper for the base layer.😣
Middle child's (marker):
Youngest child's (marker, soft pastel, colored pencil):
Have you ever tried an agamograph?
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Date: 26 Apr 2024 05:59 am (UTC)In other news, you're being wonderfully creative! 😘
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Date: 27 Apr 2024 12:28 pm (UTC)I WAS being wonderfully creative. I have hit the slump, my friend, slammed into hard.
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Date: 27 Apr 2024 10:18 pm (UTC)In comment news, I recreated your comment through my email notifications. I am a completist (or anal perhaps). 😂
Thanks in advance for letting me ramble😜
Date: 29 Apr 2024 09:44 am (UTC)In comment news, I love to be in the company of other anal completists! It makes me happy to know there are others out there like moi.😂
Re: Thanks in advance for letting me ramble😜
Date: 29 Apr 2024 11:24 pm (UTC)Re: Thanks in advance for letting me ramble😜
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Date: 26 Apr 2024 01:09 pm (UTC)For me, I know you're a great teacher of art because your kids fill the entire page with color. .... Maybe I should rephrase that as just, "I love me a page that's filled with color, and your kids do that, and so I approve of your teaching," LOL.
Agmographs are fun--I never knew the word for them, but I've seen them, of course--I've even seen ads that use that format (in an airport, if I recall correctly). I don't think I've ever made one myself, though.
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Date: 29 Apr 2024 09:46 am (UTC)I just happened upon what agamographs are through YouTube while researching something else art-related. As soon as I saw the idea, I knew I wanted to try it out with the kids. 😃
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Date: 3 May 2024 07:05 pm (UTC)I was being lazy, but after studying it, it would probably not be faster or better. :p