Thursday, August 25, 2011

Escher


I have this shirt- I think my aunt got it for me at some random thrift store- its got a bunch of M.C. Escher prints all over it. I think its pretty cool because Escher was the friggin man. Anyway the point of this little anecdote was that I used the shirt as reference and did a copy of one of his drawings on the etch-a-sketch of the one where he used a sphere with a reflective surface to do a self-portrait. I thought something like that would be easier to do than some of his other works like with tessellations morphing into other things and crazy intricate pattern things. I thought that the crazy stairs would have a certain tongue-in-cheek reference owing to the fact that people sometimes say they only know how to draw stairs on an etch-a-sketch, but that print wasn't on the shirt. Only the crazy version with weird lizards curling up rolling up and down the stairs. Feedback is appreciated. I messed up a couple times, but I'm going to blame the fact that I spread the work out over a few days and I forgot where I left the little dot thingy in the screen.
I only had one person suggest subject matter for me to do. Tell me what I should do next and- when I feel up to it- I may attempt it.

1 comment:

fafner said...

Color me impressed! I would suggest something else, but I want to give the other kids a chance to have their etch and sketch dreams come true.