On our third day of workshops with our guest artist Magdi Shiha we learnt more about painting with other sources of materials such as cardboard. When you see a piece of cardboard or a cardboard box you don't really think about creating it into an artwork as its main use to us is for storage. Magdi however, had given us a different view on the value and usage of cardboards and other everyday materials that we could use to make art.
He had firstly drawn three simple yet different sketches of a person each on a an A4 sheet of paper using charcoal. He had then glued them onto a long piece of cardboard and started to rip bits and pieces of the sheets of paper re-gluing it in different positions giving it a different effect. Next he used white and maroon paint over the drawings mixing the white and maroon colours mixing with the black from the charcoal giving it that smudged effect that gave the artwork the effect of confusion? O_o We weren't entirely sure if Mr Shiha knew what he was making or what he expected the outcome to be because it seemed to be a 5 minute or so job with the assistance of the other art students.
In the end the artwork was a fantastic yet puzzling work of art of the 3 initial drawings coated with white and maroon paint. Even though the end result was completely different from what he had originally begun with, the essence of the original drawings were still visible for the viewers.