Challenge 6 - Seeing Double

Well done all of you for taking part in last week's Arty Architecture Challenge - if you haven't seen the amazing work of our young artists, check out the exhibition here:

https://artatmg.blogspot.com/2020/04/arty-architecture-exhibition.html

This week, we are doing something a little bit different!

It is all about looking at a variety of art and artists.

Below are a few ideas to choose from for our Seeing Double Challenge, but all of them require you to do basically the same thing - find a piece of art you like and recreate/copy it.

Please read to the VERY end of this post, so you can check out all the different ideas, before deciding how you will do it.

IDEA 1 is all about photography...

This idea of copying a famous painting comes from a variety of sources. Basically, find a picture of a piece of art and recreate/copy it yourselves by using things you can find at home - you or your family could be in it; use objects from around the house or your toys for example.

Molly O'Cathain is staying with her parents for lockdown. She finds a painting, then uses her parents as subjects to copy it - adapting clothes they have at home and household objects as props and for the background.

Based on the painting 'American Gothic' by Grant Wood (1930)

Based on the painting 'My Parents' by David Hockney (1977)

Based on 'A Couple Crossing The Road' by Lowry (1953)

Based on 'Portrait of Parents' by Heily Mikhailovich (1985)

Based on 'Diptych Portrait of Dr George Tansstetter & His Wife' by Berhard Strigel (1515)

Based on 'Apple Woman and her husband' by Mark Gertler (1912)

A few years ago Lucie Kruta had the idea of photographing her children in the style of famous paintings.

Based on 'Mona Lisa' by Leonardo da Vinci

Based on 'Face' by Henri Matisse

Based on 'The Piano Keys Lake' by Frantisek Kupka (1905)

Based on 'Self Portrait' by Frida Kahlo

Based on 'The Girl In The Mirror' by Roy Litchenstein

Based on 'Man In A Bowler Hat' by Rene Magritte - 1964

Based on 'Portrait Of A Man With A Turban' - Jan Van Eyck (1437)

Based on 'The Girl With The Pearl Earring' - Johannes Vermeer (1665)

'Portrait Of A lady' by Rogier van den Weyden (1455)

Here are a few more examples we found: 

If you or your family don't want to be in your version of an art work, what about using your toys?

Here are two different versions of the Mona Lisa, the bottom one by Martha, friend of MG Art Club and featuring her toy Doris!

If you have got a pet, they might want to get involved!!

Or what about recreating famous artworks using anything you can find around the house and taking a photo...

This is John Lennon, who was in The Beatles in spaghetti! Cooked spaghetti can work really well as it is easy to shape. 
Can you think of any other things that are easy to shape?

Which artist do you think these last two examples are based on? Why? (Clue we mentioned him a few week's ago!)

IDEA 2 is all about drawing...

Find an art work you really like and do your own version of it in anyway you like. Here are some examples from the MG Art Archives.

Vincent Van Gogh is always a popular artist to recreate with his very distinctive style:

Modigliani's elongated, mask like faces are good to try:

If you want to continue your perspective journey - Lowry is your guy!

There are many more examples if you look through the old posts on the Art Blog - but just choose a piece of art you really like and have a go!

Whatever you decide to do send us a photo of your finished art AND a photo of the art work that inspired it. Don't forget to put your name and class AND the title of and the artist who created the original.

All entries need to be sent to MGartclub@missiongrove.org.uk 

by:

Friday 1st May

GOOD LUCK!

Arty Architecture - The Exhibition

We've had some great Arty Architecture entries in this week and a few new members. Many art clubbers attempted some perspective, 3D and even our younger artists managed to get some buildings to go behind others. Fantastic job all of you. So sit back and enjoy this week's exhibition. Below the video, you'll find some more details about each of the artists and their work.

Arty Architecture from Art@MG on Vimeo.

Rose was very inspired by this week's Arty Architecture challenge(and also came up with the catchy title)so created three pieces of art. A street scene in bright highlighter pens; a coloured pencil drawing of Walthamstow Town Hall and a night-time cityscape in pastels.
Which one do you like best and why?

Isla in Merlin was the only person to attempt the Tudor houses. You can really see the wooden beams, the thatch on the roof and the cross hatching for the lead windows in her pencil sketch.

Danil in Goldfinch drew a colourful street scene, making sure he placed some buildings behind others, to create this very effective picture.

Robin in Moorhen took on the iconic, glass Shard - can you see where the light is reflected on the glass on his pen and felt-tip picture?

Yousuf in Kittiwake tackled some tricky 3 point perspective in his sketch looking up at Big Ben - well done. It's great to see Art Clubbers challenging themselves.

Ruibo in Magpie also tackled a harder perspective picture. 
Can you see his houses and trees getting smaller as they go further into the distance in his coloured pencil drawing? He also drew a great bit of Arty Architecture - Buckingham Palace. What does it mean when the flag is at full mast?  

Senna in Magpie challenged herself in this drawing also using perspective on her street scene and bus with The Shard in the background.

Rayyan in Year 1 not only tried a street scene looking straight on, but also attempted the harder street scene in perspective - fantastic for such a young artist.

Ayla in Buzzard created an amazing street scene for one so young. Look how she managed to get houses behind other houses, before carefully colouring it in a variety of bright colours.

Mabel in Kinglet has taken on two giants of Arty Architecture - The Eiffel Tower in Paris and the pyramids in Egypt, before painting them very effectively.

Yaseen in Year 1 has gone above and beyond - not only drawing and colouring a street scene (can you guess the weather in it?) but also drawing a very busy street in perspective & making a great job of it! The chalk drawing at the bottom was his practice attempt on his window ledge!

Adam in Mallard has drawn London Bridge using perspective and placed some other iconic London buildings behind it - can you name them?

Once again Aliya in Goose & her mum have been busy creating their colourful street scenes. Aliya added some extra rainbow colouring to hers. They took a lot of time and care with all those windows!
"It kept us busy and it was lots of fun."

Bilal in Swallow took his inspiration from a traditional piece of architecture - a minar. An excellent choice of Arty Architecture for the start of Ramadan.

Martyna in Mallard also did a street scene, making sure she placed some taller buildings behind her smaller houses before colouring it carefully. Martyna also sent in a great perspective picture, which was just a little late for the exhibition, but we thought you should all see it. Well done for trying the harder challenge Martyna!

Carey in Goldcrest went to France and Egypt for his inspiration, drawing and painting both the Eiffel Tower and some pyramids.

Elizaveta in Kingfisher drew this very colourful street scene, with some great 3D touches. "This is a picture of Brazilian roads. I used pencil, colouring pencils and felt tip pens to create my picture."

Aleeza in Kingfisher and Rayan in Chaffinch created a mosque from cardboard. "As it is now Ramadan we have been preparing things for it and decided to make a building of a mosque to hang up in our little worship area for the month."

Adan in Magpie created a colourful street scene ensuring that she put some buildings behind others to get a sense of distance.

Jhael in Kittiwake chose to draw the iconic London landmark - Tower Bridge - setting it at night and using colouring pencils.

Ehsan, who used to be a Mission-Grover also joined in with this week's challenge, creating a mini city of different sized buildings.

Mario in Swallow has tackled a very famous London building - the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben. He has also used 3D effectively.

Ms Harding finished off one of her examples. "I have to say it isn't up to the standard of the other Art Clubbers!!"

Ammarah in Kestrel has drawn the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris, managing to get a fantastic 3D effect.

RuiXuan in Grouse has drawn the Eiffel Tower, a particularly arty piece of architecture. He has used felt pens for that, then drawn some hills in the background, shading them in with colouring pencil.

Lyna in Nursery, our youngest artist this week, did this wonderful, colourful city with a little help from her mum!

Bella in Moorhen has drawn an amazing picture of The Tower Of London, using some perspective too, before shading it carefully to give the appearance of bricks.

Casper in Kittiwake has taken on a street scene in perspective, looking down a tree lined road into a sunset. After which he carefully shaded in all his picture.

Maria in Swan has created a 3D picture of Big Ben set against a bold blue night sky. She used both colouring pencils and felt pens to make her Arty Architecture really jump out of the page.

Max in Waxwing has created a mixed media piece of art depicting some Arty Architecture we all know well! He has recycled newspapers/magazines for the sky, foliage and foreground to produce a very effective picture!

Aleena in Wagtail was a little late for the exhibition video , but here wonderful reflection picture of the Eiffel Tower definitely deserves to be seen.

Thank you all for getting involved!

We've also had some extra 

non-Arty Architecture pictures in this week.

Ayla in Buzzard did this wonderfully, cheery landscape picture, with some excellent colouring using oil pastels.

Meanwhile Yaseen has drawn a rabbit jumping over a tortoise, using felt pens. 

Rayyan has been using his "How To Draw Animals" book to learn to draw a lion - he called it King Mustafa.

Finally..... we went for a bike ride VERY early this morning for our daily exercise and took some photos of some Arty Architecture (all at a safe social distance!).....

.....and one point PERSPECTIVE!