Saturday, May 24, 2014

Goldsmiths to Michaelis - Abri de Swart and 2nd year Michaelis students

The Portrait Machine now functions as a teaching exercise. I was asked by Katherine Bull to practice the project with Michaelis students via Skype, from my studio at Goldsmiths in London. Abri de Swart is the subject.



                                         Or am I the subject?



An example of my articulate descriptions:


"his mouth is like an upside down, flattened out rainbow..."

After an hours description we reveal Abri:





The drawings turned out grand: