“Sky’s the Limit” is from a Facebook gallery of cloud paintings collected by Anne McGurk. Is there a painting you’d like to add to the collection? Let us know!
What happens when millions of people stop what they’re doing, and all focus on the same beautiful thing, at the same beautiful time? Last Monday millions of people across the nation put on their funny glasses, stuck their heads in cardboard boxes, and stood looking up to the sky. For one beautiful unified moment, we all …
Yesterday I posted Fran O’Neill’s studies from unidentified masterworks. In no time at all you savvy people identified three out of four. Nice work! Piero Della Francesca, Battle Between Heraclius and Chosroes Nicolas Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women Diego Velázquez, The Spinners Las Hilanderas, translated to “The Spinners,” is a painting by the …
Take a bit of string and drop it on the floor until you like the shape it makes. Decide which way is up, and crop the composition so the string intersects with the edge of your drawing on 3 sides. Draw the spaces around the string (the negative space). Feel free to use an eraser …
Sky’s the Limit
“Sky’s the Limit” is from a Facebook gallery of cloud paintings collected by Anne McGurk. Is there a painting you’d like to add to the collection? Let us know!
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