Last year, I took an advanced drawing class, or what I thought would be, least to say, a "drawing" class in sense of the word. Of a couple dozen, only three of us lasted the irrelevant demands of our professor. Even though most of the pupils would find the class irrelevant and even boring, I thought it would be more fun and productive to give it a little twist, and needless to say I did learn a thing or two about visualizing differently (seeing as the professor was not very intuitive and would continuously change his mind about the requirements of the assignment). In this particular case, he told us to use our body as the brush (but that we "could NOT body paint!"), and to use two formats in the project. I went mad thinking of ideas! What could I do regarding my body, paint-less? Then, while sharing ideas with my boyfriend, he came around a clever point, which we happily went to work on. Using a small sheet, I poured some acrylic paint of each colour in sequence one right next to the other, and slid the sheet around my hands, gently mixing the colours, so they are patterns instead of solid mixed colours. The same job went into a cardboard. We used Canon SLR 20D with a macro lens, and shots were made of my hand camouflaged against the cardboard. The idea is to present a sort of organic figure, body-like in texture, but unable to be recognized as the actual hand that it is. Of course, some would say "doesn't it go against the whole 'no body paint' issue?" Well, I was skeptic about it at first, but then again the assignment did require to use our body as brushes. Even though the final result was not "in" the body, the idea of illusion was what was most intriguing about it. Finally, using my body as the brush, I created an abstract piece, that speaks of textures, vivid colours, and illusions.
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