I didn’t even want the brush to come between me and the image.
[Regarding the white paintings…] If you have size, you have proportion. If you have size and proportion, and if white is a color, than you have a painting.
An artist has to start without any conceivable purpose other than curiosity and a sense of adventure. Not a good job, not a better life. I just do what I do.
I think curiosity is probably the most important energy that any creative person can have.
We are one week into our 30 Day Challenge for January. We’ve had a lot of fun looking at all the posts! Some were technically impressive, others highly creative, and some made us laugh. Here are a few of our favorites so far. Day 1: Before & After Self portrait on Jan 1 2020, vs …
Here the artist uses less glow effect by adding medium tones, but notice how the windows at the top aren’t surrounded by hard straight lines. The texture of the paint makes the light blue spill into the dark a little, making them sparkle. Smooth perfect lines would have killed the sparkle. See it? Would you …
We start in one week Starting January 1, 2021 I’m going to start posting the League’s daily series of 30 creative challenges. All artists everywhere are invited to join in the creativity challenge! The challenges will get posted here, to V. Notes. Last January, artists posted over 1,270 artworks with #30sal on Instagram. That was an …
I enjoy how this artist used a combination of graphite and ink to produce wide swathes of soft burnished textures with diffused light lines (erased), and thin liquid dark contrast. I enjoy how the compositions are studies of energy between two objects, and the surrounding spaces. The reflections are shared between the two balloons, but also …
Robert Rauschenberg with Charlie Rose
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I didn’t even want the brush to come between me and the image.
[Regarding the white paintings…] If you have size, you have proportion. If you have size and proportion, and if white is a color, than you have a painting.
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