Today is critique for my figure drawing class. Our assignment was to create some kind of work not using your hands. Like a traditional painting on a canvas. We had to have some kind of object that was attached to our body to make the piece of work.
As I started to think about what I wanted to do for this, I started to brainstorm on what kind of things I like to do and how I could incorporate that with my artwork. Instantly Fly Fishing came to my mind. So I decided to take my fly rod and attach feathers on the end of the line for a fly. I then would act like I am fly fishing and dip the feathers in paint and hit a large white sheet with the fly. I took two polls and strung two clothes lines between them and pinned the white sheet between them like a canvas.
I really liked how it turned out and it was a lot of fun. Another reason why I wanted to use fly fishing was that I feel like fly fishing alone is an art to me. Once you get the feel of the rhythm of the casts its an amazing feeling and I really wanted to get that feeling on something visual I could see.
I may make a series of paintings like this in the future and use different kinds of "lures" I make. I will put some pictures on here later on of the finished work.
