Below is a video by Proko showing a brief overview of basic drawing supplies, and a demo for how to hand sharpen a soft charcoal pencil. He explains what the weird sandpaper thingy is for.
Welcome to day 3 of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Seattle is flooded today. There are quick moving streams along the sides of roads. Puddles the size of lakes. The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens. The alternative challenge is to make a comic based …
This is day 7 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Today, design a chair for a specific person or personality. Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #chair Or post to today’s Padlet page. Check out these chairs from other artists:
I’d like to tell you about the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of, a class called “Figure in Interior.” “Figure in Interior” sounds normal enough, but this class was anything but normal. I specially designed this Thursday series of Intermediate Studio to shift the artist’s focus away from illustrating the scene …
Michelle Muldrow uses the aqueous and graphic casein paint to give fresh painterly color to her urban landscapes. Her scenes describe the buzzing light and glinting metal, linoleum, and synthetic fabrics of department stores. Edited from her website: Muldrow explores the the landscape genre and what it means to be picturesque. She contrasts the idea of the picturesque by …
How to Sharpen a Pencil (seriously)
Below is a video by Proko showing a brief overview of basic drawing supplies, and a demo for how to hand sharpen a soft charcoal pencil. He explains what the weird sandpaper thingy is for.
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This is day 7 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Today, design a chair for a specific person or personality. Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #chair Or post to today’s Padlet page. Check out these chairs from other artists:
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