I'm planning to paint a portraint of Leonardo Da Vinci using a certain theme. I'm actually going after Guissippe Archemboldo's (mind the spelling, please) notion of painting using themes.... such as, making a face only out of fruits, or nature, or books! So I am planning to paint 3/4 view of Leonardo's face mainly using human organs, such as hearts for his cheeks, large/small intestines for his beard, appendix for his eyeborws, etc... because he was actually an anatomist himself, so I thought it would be a great theme to draw him out of human organs... something along that line. My plan is to draw him out first then place the organs in place to make resemble him. I'm going to use water colour, pencil crayons, and acrylic on large illustration board. What do you guys think of this idea...?
2006-12-03 08:05:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
The idea seems interesting and especialy the reason of using the human organs but I can't truly give my opinion till you finish your work ,best thing to do is not waisting time, just start it and show it to us
2006-12-03 08:14:06 · answer #1 · answered by chinwi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's very unique, but I suggest you do a sketch or outline on a separate piece of paper, because I started out with a memory project and we have to use ideas like Kiki Smith, Pisacasso, Paul Pfeiffer, Georgia O' Ke8ith, Do-Ho-DSuhKara Walker etc. So you can plan out your oragns and try to rearrange them in your head or cut out pieces similar to a jigsaw puzzle. It'll be hard work but the effort is most likely to appear in favor Good Luck!
2006-12-03 08:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by Red Panda 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
very creative and i like the reason behind the choice of theme. Also that is an interesting combination of media,
sound awesome good luck
2006-12-03 08:14:11 · answer #3 · answered by Wicked 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's a really cool idea. i like that you're using human organs for his face. go for it!
2006-12-03 12:14:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋