Surreal Pastel

Alice Cook, 2013

In my Drawing 2 class, one of the assignments involved creating a pastel artwork that was disturbing.  Using an image from the Dora the Explorer coloring book as a starting point, I drew out this surreal image.  According to Wikipedia, "Surrealism is where artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself."  I don't know what my unconscious was expressing while I drew this image, but consciously I was interested in drawing the foot and hand in pastel with a twist.  Enjoy!