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TIME
How does one illustrate "Time" in a painting, drawing, or ????
Classic or stereotypical ideas include seasons/cycles, circles (circle of life),
metamorphosis (cocoon to butterfly), clocks/calendars, etc.

Project- Your assignment is to capture the sense of "Time", through illustration using acrylic paint. Your design must be of realistic nature, but could show signs of surrealism. Your illustration must include- a celtic knot or knots, a musical instrument, a shiny object, some font (words) that are free-handed, and a persons' face. Other objects, people, or place (scenes) could also be included.
Size- 15"x 20" on illustration board
Medium- pencil first, finished in acrylic paint
Subject Matter- "Time"???
which includes a celtic knot(s), a musical instrument, a shiny object,
font, and a persons' face and ????????



*Preliminary Work-
1. Draw a celtic knot in your sketchbook,
how?? check out this web page for help!
http://www.aon-celtic.com/cknotworkbasic.html
2. Surrealism, what is it? Using the internet find 5 examples from
5 different artists work, that best describes what surrealism is.
http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/glo/surrealism/
http://www.duke.edu/~acm6/academic/art/surrealism.htm
http://www.bway.net/~monique/history.htm
http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~igal/visocomm/surreali.html
3. Using acrylic techniques create a small painting of your
hand on scrap illustration board / 5" minimum.
Need help? check out these topics-
http://painting.about.com/arts/painting/mbody.htm