Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Prompts + Sidekick
- Connecting to Culture: Creating a Paper Theatre in Your Journal
- Living wholehearted lives: use alcohol inks to create organic layers of universal wholehearted traits
- Colour Theory Basics: The Colour Wheel and Colour Harmony
- Nothing is Black and White: Using Charcoal and Gesso to Explore Justice
- Windy Waltzing Leaf: Using Bold Letters to Create 3-Word Poems
- One World – A Mixed Media Concertina Art Journal
- Tags of Humanity: Creating Quilted Tags Out of Paper and Fabric Scraps
- Art Joy Postcards – Share and Care With a Card
- New Dynamics: Creating Diptychs to Explore Relationships
- Words bring us together: brush lettering using watercolor and ink
New Dynamics: Creating Diptychs to Explore Relationships
Hi everyone, it’s Sarah! Today were going to be exploring diptychs and how they are used to bring the connections between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Since the word ubuntu translates to multiple words and concepts, diptychs can be used to bring work out these concepts and create a better understanding of the word. We will be creating diptychs inspired by ubuntu and its definitions of community, kindness and solidarity.
While traditionally diptychs were created on two wooden panels, hinged together, today we’ll be using a double page spread. Diptychs are most commonly used to show subjects that were closely related to one another, but they can also portray different perspectives on the same subject or focus on contrasting concepts.
Supplies
- Paint
- Brushes
- Water
- Collage ephemera
- Scissors
- Adhesives
- Drawing materials
Tutorial
This is a fairly open tutorial. Using two separate pages to create ones-read that will be seen as one work. It may help to ask yourself these questions while creating: How are the images similar? How are they different? Do they mean something together that is different than their meaning individually? How can they become connected? What is their new relationship?
You want to be able to look at each page individually but also then as a whole that creates new context and meaning for the images. In my first example, I was exploring the idea of ubuntu where we are individuals but also a part of the whole. For my second example I wanted to the process of combing two separate images to really end up working together and making the viewer think about the new relationship that is formed. Taking images, that you may not even know what they are in reference too and making connections between them.
Action Steps
- Choose a concept of ubuntu that you want to explore
- Find two images that are seemly unrelated and give them new meaning by putting them together in a diptych
- Add a background and doodles to help connect the images
- Add a background and doodles to help connect the images
SARAH
Sara lives in Rockland County, New York. The best part of art journaling for Sarah is that it’s just for her. She can be as free as she wants in the pages and there’s no right or wrong. Her art journals have become more than just a way to try new supplies and techniques, but a way for her to document the phases of her life.
Great lesson Sarah! This is an interesting concept to explore. Love your tiny journal by the way!
I loved this 🙂
and also seeing the pages of your journals!
great lesson and the flip through of your journals was a real treat Sarah! Thanks!
Thank you Sarah! Love your journaling! 🙂
I enjoyed this tutorial so much, Sarah. I have always thought of diptychs and triptychs as relating to saints or religious stories. Now I have an entirely new way of seeing them, and it’s exciting!
I love this tutorial!!!! Thank you Sarah!!
I love this tutorial, Sarah! Thank you!