I need to make a surrealistic painting for art class

JDrake

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any ideas on what I could draw?
I'm not very artistic, but I took this class anyways :)() so I need ideas for something easy to paint that's surreal (like not realistic)

any ideas? :confused:

HMMM:
hey does anyone have "The Day After Tomorrow" (DVD) on hand and wanna take me some screen captures of the scene where the boat is floating in between the highrises?

.. would just substitute the boat for little fishies
you can upload the pictures here (please, thanks)
 

phisrow

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Odd juxtapositions are always good. Objects that make sense in and of themselves(so you don't have to muck about too much with artful distortion; but look really weird together.

Another thing you can do is draw things from pictures or life that are distorted(e.g. fisheye photographs, objects under water, etc.

A combination of these two approaches might also be useful; e.g.

A cow's head on roller skates with a clown nose. The cow's eye has been replaced by a fisheye view of a ferris wheel. http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/photos/recreate/fairfest/fair02/fair0218.htm

A naked mole rat wearing a snorkel and a tuxedo shaking hands with the spirit rover on mars.

A bowl full of raisins with whiskers and tails.

A light fixture with a squid in place of the lightbulb.

A school of fish floating between high-rise buildings.

A bottle of pills(labelled "truth") spilled on a table, each pill containing either a pig or a 747.

An avocado wearing a tutu and a spiked German helmet.

Edit: a dog swimming in a pancake.(View of ordinary breakfast plate, pancake, scrambled eggs, bacon, glass of milk. There just happens to be a dog swimming in the pancake as though it were liquid.)
 

Injury

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Originally posted by: phisrow
Odd juxtapositions are always good. Objects that make sense in and of themselves(so you don't have to muck about too much with artful distortion; but look really weird together.

Another thing you can do is draw things from pictures or life that are distorted(e.g. fisheye photographs, objects under water, etc.

A combination of these two approaches might also be useful; e.g.

A cow's head on roller skates with a clown nose. The cow's eye has been replaced by a fisheye view of a ferris wheel. http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/photos/recreate/fairfest/fair02/fair0218.htm

A naked mole rat wearing a snorkel and a tuxedo shaking hands with the spirit rover on mars.

A bowl full of raisins with whiskers and tails.

A light fixture with a squid in place of the lightbulb.

A school of fish floating between high-rise buildings.

A bottle of pills(labelled "truth") spilled on a table, each pill containing either a pig or a 747.

An avocado wearing a tutu and a spiked German helmet.

Edit: a dog swimming in a pancake.(View of ordinary breakfast plate, pancake, scrambled eggs, bacon, glass of milk. There just happens to be a dog swimming in the pancake as though it were liquid.)

Pass that stuff this way. :shocked:
 

JDrake

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Originally posted by: Injury
Pass that stuff this way. :shocked:
lol, believe it or not, though, that's the type of stuff the teacher's looking for
however, his examples are really complicated :(

maybe the fish one if I can figure out how to draw some fish/a city :p

lol look at this
just gotta replace the background with a city, though :D
 

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How about a man screaming over a dead strawberry on a gold plate? Call it "The Cloister Jerk".
 

JDrake

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Originally posted by: kogase
How about a man screaming over a dead strawberry on a gold plate? Call it "The Cloister Jerk".
Text?

Originally posted by: laurenlex
Download a photo.
Open it in photoshop.
Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush
Profit
:confused: 5. Print it onto a canvas board ???
 

JDrake

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hey does anyone have "The Day After Tomorrow" (DVD) on hand and wanna take me some screen captures of the scene where the boat is floating in between the highrises?

.. would just substitute the boat for little fishies