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Monster Self Portrait Are you feeling strange? Are you beginning to creep people out? What are you becoming? A MONSTER! Create a self-portrait as a monster. Use one of Universal Studios “classic monsters” as a prompt but make your portrait in the style of the Romantic Period Artists. Your portrait can be as amusing, as terrifying, as gorgeous, as atrocious, or as abnormal as you want to make it. Your creature can be dreamlike, intellectual, or lifelike. Remember, you must make a self-portrait as a monster. If we are working remote this week use the materials you have on hand. Do not go purchase items from the store.
Use your personal experiences and imagination to compose an oil pastel painting/drawing. If you get stuck, you may want to look for ideas in other media sources for inspiration. Keep in mind that you must use at least one classic monster. Feel free to use more than one.
Sketchbook: Draw three thumbnail sketches in your sketchbook before beginning. These three sketches should be self-portraits showing different monsters in each thumbnail. You will select one of the three thumbnails to be the monster you use in your completed project. At least one classic monster must be represented in your project.
Examples of “classic” monsters
- Frankenstein’s Monster
- Dracula
- The Mummy
- The Creature from the black lagoon
- Werewolves
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Zombies
Self-Evaluation:
Write a one or two pages giving me the following information:
a) What classic monsters did you choose to represent yourself as?
b) How did you go about combining the monster with yourself?
c) Any influences you took from other painters or media and why?
d) What aspects of your oil pastel drawing are most successful and what aspects are least successful?
Materials: Oil Pastels, Paint, Graphite, Charcoal, large paper, large Watercolor Paper, Drawing Pencils
Overview of Romanticism from "The Art Story"
Classic Monsters
Romanticism – Painting of the Romantic Period
Monsters Depicted in Art
(NOT ALL OF THESE IMAGES ARE FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD)
Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey among Oak Trees, 1809 or 1810, oil on canvas, 110.4 x 171 cm
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Saturn Devouring One Of His Sons, 1821-1823, 143.5 x 81.4 cm
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Saturn Devouring One Of His Sons, 1821-1823, 143.5 x 81.4 cm
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming)
Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas, 193 x 282 inches, 1818-19
Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
