Creating Abstract Art: Expressing Motion

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"The next idea I had was well, bodies move. Who can put an idea of movement, an idea o movement into this skeleton. I mean, it has a little bit of motion as it is because it kind of curves up and then it goes away. So, there starts to be movement and I said, "well, I'm going accentuate that." And, after all, we have what is supposed to be a flexible spine and the spine is what sort of starts guiding what the ribcage is doing. So, I really accentuated this. I made these smaller and these wider so that they really came up and then I shrank it down again so that they'd go down. So that now I have, this human being must be made of rubber to be able to be that curvy, you are starting off thinking of a rubber human being. Now if you start with that idea, you might go further. If you are going to talk about rubber and this sort of movement, I might want to do this in a fluid medium. Brush an ink or something to again start to accentuate the idea of movement. The way you put this on the paper might make a difference too. Is it going to help the movement for example, if I make this a longer, skinnier rectangle, that will also accentuate the movement. So, I've really sort of concentrated on this motion here by sort of narrowing the picture plain. And you just start trying to think of all the ways you can develop the idea that you started just by saying "what happens if I make the spine super flexible?""