Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration

Project 4:

YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Abstract illustration uses many of the same techniques as abstract fine art—color, line, and shape—to convey an idea. Familiar subjects are abstracted to geometric forms and remain easy to understand, even with simplistic rendering. A composition can be intensified with exaggerated shapes, colors, patterns, and line work to heighten the meaning of an illustration.

Medium: gouache

For this project, let’s stay local and create an abstract illustration representing your own neighborhood, observing the colors of the neighboring houses, the curves and shapes of the roads, and any other distinguishing features that give your neighborhood character.

Abstract Warm-Up:CREATE AN ABSTRACT HOME

Let’s start by practicing some ...