Watch the diagonals: how they form shapes, intersect with each other, form pathways across and divide the canvas. See how he crops in close, balancing the positive and negative shapes to be equal in weight, colliding the diagonals with the edge of the canvas or paper, so the edge also becomes a shape. I can hear him: “Bend your elbow, bend your knee, put your hand to your face, put your hand to your knee, lean.” Every shape is an angle.
People posted hundreds of drawings for our 30 day January challenge, in which artists are invited to respond to a daily prompt posted on our V. Notes blog. Unlike other drawing challenges, these prompts are wildly varied, open to non-typical materials around us, and are designed to feed a broad spectrum of creative skills at …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10969″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Best print of the day: Katy’s Aurora Bridge and Connie’s Octopus combined Steamroller Moments: Nikki (printmaking instructor and lead for the day) telling Nickie (certified heavy equipment operator) where to aim the steamroller to get the maximum out of the press. Nikki and Nickie nailed it to the quarter …
I’ve posted so many thoughts and artists since our visit from Carlos San Millan that you would be reasonable to think I was about finished. This may be difficult to believe, but I still have more to post. Way, way more to post. Many of you who were in the workshops said that you felt …
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Diebenkorn’s Figures
How Diebenkorn Abstracts the Figure
Watch the diagonals: how they form shapes, intersect with each other, form pathways across and divide the canvas. See how he crops in close, balancing the positive and negative shapes to be equal in weight, colliding the diagonals with the edge of the canvas or paper, so the edge also becomes a shape. I can hear him: “Bend your elbow, bend your knee, put your hand to your face, put your hand to your knee, lean.” Every shape is an angle.
The lady’s legs, they’re a bit like scissors.
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