Monica Ahanonu

1. 
   Monica, you must check out the collage work of Wangechi Mutu, an artist from Kenya who makes these amazing images, all cut out of textures and patterns in magazine ads. Plus I think she adds some watercolor and gouache.
   
   MONICA'S PROPOSAL
   My idea is a series of images, each in monotone, using magazine cut outs to create them. I got the Idea from the images under the self portraits section of the reading and our anatomy book.

2. I have decided to do four 12x12 drawings using magazine and newspaper cutouts. I first am going to draw them in pencil, and do some light shading to show where I want each color to be before I start cutting the magazines and such. I either want them all to be black and white with a lot of contrast, or four different monotone drawings, but I havent decided. I am going to take some images of a friend showing different expression, then pick four to draw bigger on the pieces of paper. All of the pictures will probably be shoulders and up. I got the idea to do the differetn emotions from the images below, where each artist had drawn themselves with a different expression.

3. The artists that I have looked to for my drawing style for this project are Alex Katz, Bill Viola, and Hannah Hoch.
4. The only materials I am choosing to use are the paper, magazines, and newspaper.