MMU Paint with ANYTHING (part 2)

An interesting display of ye olde painters' raw materials

 So, a part 2 of this painting with anything tutorial. It's getting to me that we should open our minds to other more interesting forms of materials when we make our art, a break down of our presumption of what should be "art" - y'know: paints, paint brushes, sketching pencils, charcoal, paper, 2D stuffs, water colours, really old fashioned uncultured knowledge of this so called "fine art" (of course I'm making an exaggerated point, I'm sure not everyone was thinking that at all).

We were shown examples of previous students' work, one of which included a project they did during the course that involved the making of images associated with the materials. The example shows how important it is to consider the connection between the object/subject matter with the materials and manner in which it was made: so for example, the Ben & Jerry's ice cream logos made with Ben & Jerry's ice cream (although my deductions tell me that perhaps the student artist did not use actual B&J ice cream to make pictures with, as that would be far too expensive for someone in education to use up that much ice cream).

*sniff* :'( all that delcious ice cream...

We were asked to bring in items of everyday occurance and to then prepare it in a way that would make it useful to use in a drawing/painting.

Here's my kit list: 

• Tea
• Apple
• Tomato
• Coca-Cola
• Soy Sauce
• Shampoo
• Burnt toast
• (out of date) chocolate
• Green Tea
• Custard Powder
• Ginger

... *sigh*

Unfortunately, my materials didn't offer up such a great range of colours:

That's a lotta brown.

I am, however, rather happy I at least contributed to someone else's colour sheet ^_^ At one point in the tutorial, we were asked to swap around the room and find a colour that the owner of the colour sheet had not yet put on:

If you squint, my contribution is on the top right hand corner. That raspberry and paprika mix.

A thank you to Sarah Jane for letting me add to her work :)