Creating Abstract Art: Enlarging a Portion of a Painting

Video Transcript

"One way to abstract from your subject matter is to zoom in, is to sort of zoom in on one area and make it a lot bigger. Now the way that you do this in real life, and I'm going to show you how to make is a viewfinder. So you just take a spare piece of paper and you don't want to cut a very big rectangle in it. This is about as big as this rectangle should be, it shouldn't be bigger than this. And what you do is you look through this rectangle at your subject matter and you can move it around. It's sort of like looking through a camera viewfinder, so you're looking through the viewfinder to find an interesting composition within this total figure. So what I'm going to do now is sort of cut me a larger one because this is actually what I would be seeing. I you know I can't put the camera in my eye to show you exactly what I'm seeing so I'll do, I'll do sort of an example of what might happen. So here's your viewfinder and what you would start to see, you'd start moving it around your subject matter and you start going well, you know that's kind of interesting. Look at that and look at this that kind of is interesting now we're going to have no idea anymore that it's a bone but it might make a really interesting picture. So you would move your viewfinder around, you can turn it this way too to check out the vertical. Nothings happening there that's sort of like a dud, that isn't going to work. What about the rib cage? Is there something happening with the rib cage and if we've got this here and this little angle here and this here that might make a really good you know possible design for a drawing. So this is the first way to abstract, you're zooming in so again you know this is what you'd be seeing but you'd be looking through this little this little guy here. The closer you put it to your eye your when it's right against your eye you see the whole thing. The farther out you hold it the more you're going to zoom in on the object so it's really in a way, your version of the telephoto camera lens."