Mock Hats Make Great Fun
First Night Sketch – digital sketch – laptop finger painting
12/31/2007 – First Night Monterey – Dan Beck
Last night,
Last Year,
- a small group from Salinas made a showing of some of our art and culture at First Night Monterey – the giant hats you see – were made from foam rubber by some Everett Alvarez High School Students.
From what I understand they dove right in to recreate the Claes Oldenburg sculpture found in Salinas – Hats in Three Stages of Landing. Its current state is loaded with under-rim graffiti – not pictured here – but the kids put the authentic finishing touches on.
The views and interactions with the foam hats were sketched on a laptop with finger painting in- precision – quick and childlike – like the interactions – the scene with young man’s torso covered, kids underneath, photo ops for everyone – dogs – Santa hat – flashing bunny ears – different hats and hair – and a later seen person on stilts added to the scene quickly with this almost cartoon-like feeling.
See Also
- Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen: Large-Scale Projects – photo index of many large scale public works
- Digital Art – the broad definitions and thus the amusing aspect of finger sketching what could as easily be documented digitally by photography
Tags: Art, Digital Art, digital_art, painting
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