Creating Abstract Art: Isolating Shapes

Video Transcript

"Another way to sort of get yourself out and beyond the subject matter is to turn it into a an examination of shape and I've started looking at the rib cage some more and I drew out my shapes here and I cut them out here. I drew them actually on tracing paper and cut them out so you can start to first you can. By putting these on a ground, I can see better you know what the shapes kind of look like and I can start to maneuver them and play around with, let's see o.k. Now we have these that go are going this way I believe, o.k. so I wanted to start with this to just see what the shapes are doing. To clarify for myself what kinds of shapes I have and I have these kind of stick shapes and then they get little little do-hickeys on the end of them. Here, this one goes here like that where they attach to the bone and then we have we have a second group of shapes that is separating. That is basically, what you see of the backside of the other ribs."