Three Bandits . IZM/1

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Here is a part of a brief "IZM" - the first big task of an illustration course curated by Victor Melamed and Tanya Ivankova,

at British Higher School of Art and Design (BHSAD) in Moscow.

Task: choose 3-4 artists with common esthetics, method or other feature; imagine them as an art movement, that never existed;

create series of works, using different mediums and creative methods as it would be made by 3 completely dissimilar imagined artists of your new art movement.

My list is: Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Moore, Vladimir Shinkarev and Vitali Kulikov.

It's important to keep the chosen tone of all series, so need to frame that tone in a few words.
My tone is: "heavy silence buzzing".

I started to combine in Photoshop pictures of artists I chose to work with, then using magic wand tool cut out forms spontaneously and filled them in gray. On that step everything already looked half-finished, so I transferred these silhouettes to A2 lists and convert them to characters. I wanted to mix abstract spots with recognizable parts of some creatures.