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| Interior after Vermeer, graphite and colored pencil, copyright Nina Leung 2013 |
Vermeer's work is all about the interior. Women working, reading, pouring milk, conversing with others, all in a room. Usually it's the same room over and over, just slight adjustments to each. I did my own, slightly Surreal version in graphite. The light is so important in Vermeer's paintings, so I tried to do something similar. Of course, he painted right there in the very room, setting up the scene. Mine was taken from the imagination.
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| Abstract Interior, watercolor, copyright Nina Leung 2013 |
Since I'm more an abstract artist and I enjoy finding the fundamentals of something, abstracting the interior was an obvious choice. The grid on the window, the yellow bowl, and a strange, kind of difficult composition. I actually asked Gio for advice as to what to do with the upper right corner. He told me to make squares with fireworks in them. So, that's what I did. I think it worked!
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| Gio's After Vermeer, watercolor, crayon, collage, copyright Nina Leung 2013 |
The boys did their own Vermeer interpretation. We studied a few of Vermeer's paintings looking at a
slideshow, then we followed
this lesson. Gio did his completely on his own. Eamon needed a little help on his, but most of it is his own. The key with doing artwork with children is separating the project into chunks and then limiting the materials. I only allowed 2 different colored markers for the background, 3 colors of crayon for the window, and only blue for the watercolor.
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| Eamon's After Vermeer, watercolor, crayon, collage, copyright Nina Leung 2013 |
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