• Camouflage, conceal, deceive or encrypt:
• Hide, mask or implant your subject into another frame or reference:
– In nature, for example, chameleons, moths, and certain other species conceal themselves by mimicry.

– Think about subliminal imagery:
– How can you create a latent image that will communicate subconsciously, below the threshold of conscious awareness?

M.C.Escher

“Seeking the Enemy”
Batik
Jessica Langston

Bethany Toomey
Chalk Pastel

Camouflage - 1986

Randy is famous for hiding smaller animals within the portraits of larger ones. For example, the picture at left contains 10 hidden animals. About 95% of
Randy's prints have hidden creatures. They make a great conversation piece!
" A Place To Park " © Randy
McGovern

Randy McGovern
"Bedfellows" - House Cats
(1 hidden mouse)

Wildlife Artist Randy McGovern answers:
What do you mean by "hidden animals"?
• The artistic challenge of hiding animals in my backgrounds is such that they have to be camouflaged enough to where you wouldn't see them at a casual glance; yet distinct enough to where you could find them if you look for them.
About 95% our my prints have hidden animals. When you purchase a print, it comes with a card telling you what animals are in that picture. The card doesn't tell you where they are - you are on your own! For an example of some hidden animals, see the closeups of the deer picture below showing 3 of the 8 hidden
animals in "After The Rain". - Randy McGovern

"A Pig, A Hawg and A Log" - Largemouth Bass
(5 hidden creatures)

Bev Doolittle

Can you find 3 hidden animals in the above print? (Racoon is easiest!)

Bev Doolittle, “Double Back”

Bev Doolittle, “Mare and
Foal in Shadow”

Wilderness! Wilderness?
Sometimes we rationalize that it's enough if a place is undeveloped and presents us with a postcard-perfect landscape. Since wild animals are seldom seeen, it's easy not to notice their absence. But each missing plant or animal, seemingly insignificant in itself, creates a vacuum over time. What we perceived as wild is no longer so. It is something less. We are left with a beautiful landscape that was once so much more.
-- Bev Doolittle

Pintos
In "Pintos" the magic began to happen.
Suddenly my mind was crowded with experiments I wanted to make, patterns I wanted to play with, stories I wanted to tell. -- Bev Doolittle

Pintos

Sacred Ground by Bev Doolittle

Woodland Encounter by Bev Doolittle

Two Indian Horses

Eagle's Flight by Bev Doolittle

Music in the Wind by Bev Doolittle

• Grade 5
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• Objectives: To learn about camouflage as the art of concealment. The students will create an original frog in an environment it would feel be safe to be in.
• History: Define selected visual art vocabulary.
• Criticism: Describe the function of art within the total environment.
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Aesthetics: Analyze the use of art in everyday life.
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• Production: Recognize color schemes.
• Materials & Preparation: 12x18 manila Drawing paper, oil pastels, chalk
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• Vocabulary: Camouflage, blending
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• Motivation & Procedure:
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1) Discussion about camouflage, the art of concealment. Camouflage involves disguising an object, in plain sight, in order to hide it from something or someone. We generally think of camouflage as being worn by soldiers.
Soldiers often wear special camouflage clothing and smear mud on their faces at night to become less visible, but camouflage exists in many other forms in the natural world. A chameleon, for instance, changes color to blend in with its environment. A white polar bear is hard to see on the ice. Some animals have special markings that help disguise their shapes. 2) Sketch with white chalk a frog that fills most of the paper. 3) Draw background around the frog. (Leaves, twigs, flowers, etc.) 4) Sketch out markings on the frog similar to those found in the background.
5) Discuss colors and blending techniques. Choose either warm or cool colors for your picture. 6) Color frog and background with oil pastel.

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