This week's art project is a type of Pun Art using proverbs. Our highlighted piece is from a UVU student artist named Brian George. His piece Welcome Home shows a surreal birdhouse scene where a bird leads his man-legged house through a desert using a banana on a string. Like George’s piece, our project will focus on coming up with a surreal scene using an old proverb or saying as your inspiration. For example, our piece is called Hold Your Horses (slow down) and shows a large, biped horse holding a smaller horse in its arms.
Welcome Home, Brian George, acrylic, 2021
Here are some proverbs you can use as examples:
● Slow and Steady Wins the Race
● Don’t Count your Chickens Before They Hatch
● Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
● Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Think of a saying you’ve heard from a Grandparent, Parent, Teacher, friend, or from popular culture, and use it as your inspiration for this project. This type of art helps to see the relationship between words and pictures, and how they can be combined, to create something unique.
Materials (to create our example):
● Colored pencils
● Sketch paper
● White paper
● Pencil
● Eraser
● Slow and Steady Wins the Race
● Don’t Count your Chickens Before They Hatch
● Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
● Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Think of a saying you’ve heard from a Grandparent, Parent, Teacher, friend, or from popular culture, and use it as your inspiration for this project. This type of art helps to see the relationship between words and pictures, and how they can be combined, to create something unique.
Materials (to create our example):
● Colored pencils
● Sketch paper
● White paper
● Pencil
● Eraser
Hold Your Horses!
Directions:
1 - Take the sketch paper and write down some proverbs with a pencil. Be creative when you are thinking of sketch ideas that go along with the proverbs that you choose.
2 - Once you’ve chosen a proverb, use your sketch paper as a reference and draw out your vision on the white paper.
3 - When you have finished the drawing, take the colored pencils and color it in.
4 - At the bottom of the drawing, decide if you want your proverb to be visible, or would you like for people to your proverb?
Remember, this project is all about creativity and discovery, so get inspired and have fun.
1 - Take the sketch paper and write down some proverbs with a pencil. Be creative when you are thinking of sketch ideas that go along with the proverbs that you choose.
2 - Once you’ve chosen a proverb, use your sketch paper as a reference and draw out your vision on the white paper.
3 - When you have finished the drawing, take the colored pencils and color it in.
4 - At the bottom of the drawing, decide if you want your proverb to be visible, or would you like for people to your proverb?
Remember, this project is all about creativity and discovery, so get inspired and have fun.