Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage

Piven will start off this course by presenting his collection of work, talk about his references, and share the circumstances which led him to develop his own unique way of creating caricatures.

Next, you'll use his collage technique as a creative experiment where you'll be able to observe different ways to trigger and build up a creative process. Meanwhile, you will also consider the concept of collage as a metaphor for any creative process, helping you enter the right frame of mind in order to creatively play.

You will analyze the face, using the tips Piven learned throughout his 40 years of drawing and studying other caricaturists; learning how to create similarities and visual hierarchies, while Piven gives a demonstration of how he creates a portrait from A to Z.

Art is a safe place in which we can explore the way we interact with the world and enter a space of inner communication and self-reflection. This is why so many artists have created self-portraits, and why you'll create one too.

Trusting your individual voice is key to allowing yourself to act creatively. A good creative space is one that allows you to follow your own ideas and feelings, and break free from convention. Once you trust your intuition, you'll have your own personal measure which will help you distill what is essential, or at least meaningful, in your projects and beyond. In other words: editing. Editing is essential but basing that process on your own guiding rules is the real secret.