oil on panel 8 x 8"
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Instructions 12
Invitational Painting Exhibition. Curated by Travis Head. All paintings generated according to instructions created by Nathan Haenlein. Opens at Arts Iowa City Gallery Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, 5-8 pm
INSTRUCTIONS 12
1. Begin by building, buying, finding, stealing, adopting, a square picture plane that has an area divisible
by 12. e.g., 12x12, 8x8, 16x16.
2. Measure one quarter of the way from the top on both sides and make a mark. Connect the two marks
with a line.
3. Fill the top quarter of the plane with a flat, opaque off white. The flat should border or meet the line
4. Starting at the bottom of the picture plane on each side, measure up half way. Then divide this half
evenly into 12 equal stripes. e.g. if your half measures four inches, each stripe will be one quarter of an
inch.
5. The 12 stripes, divisible by 4, should consist of 3 pink, 3 red, 3 light green, and 3 orange stripes. Start
from the bottom with pink and follow the order.
6. The next few steps are a little complicated, so please read the whole thing before starting.
- First, make a square on the left side of the painting, halfway above the center and halfway below.
- Next, make a square on the right side of the painting, a quarter of the way from the bottom
- On each corner of the squares, make another square that is a quarter of the size of the two squares.
- Now each image should look like a fat Purina logo.
7. Fill the two images (Purina thing) with dark opaque reddish brown (more red than brown).
8. Time for some low-grade perspective. Turn each object into a three dimensional form. Use the line
on the top half for points. The reddish brown should be your middle value.
9. The other two planes, one lighter in value, one darker should be painted in with a similar color family
and should be opaque to cover the stripes
10. Now pick a corner, with a loose transparent gray, make a line that wraps one of the objects and
finishes back at the corner. The line should also touch the top quarter in some way.
11. Next, with a darker transparent gray, trace the previous line on one side with a smaller brush. This
should give some simple shadow effect.
12. Finally, at some edge of the painting, apply one of the following letters: D, H, L, P, T, or X. The letter
should be neat and applied with care. The color is your option.
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About Me
- Travis Head
- 2011-present: Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Drawing, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. 2008: MFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa. Contact: head_travis@yahoo.com