I'm getting ready to teach a few art classes at MOCA (Marin Museum of Contemporary Art) in Novato starting this coming November. The classes are part of their Sunday family days - having fun making art with your kids- program. Link here: https://www.marinmoca.org/
As I haven't been doing much more than nursing this past year, I needed to practice for my paper collage class revolving around color theory. I wanted to tie in my first class with the current 50 FACES exhibit at MOCA and come up with something that would result in a finished portrait in 30 minutes.
First off, I got Sam to pose for me (top) Result looks nothing like him and this fill-in collage technique takes way longer than 30 minutes. I filled out the rest of the image with doodles (a technique I'm planning to explore in more mediums coming up) and tried another approach.
Next up (middle) was a portrait using recycled telephone book pages and some apple cut paper images to illustrate the complementary colors red and green. This also took way too long and didn't come out that well.
Another effort (bottom) was a pen & ink drawing with complementary colors (yellow/purple) filling in the negative space around the main image. Something to consider, but not the final choice.