Monday is composition day in our 30 Day Challenge, and you’re doing great! Today we’re going to work with negative space, and an element of chance to make it fun. You’ll need some string, and simple drawing materials. If you don’t have string, try rubber bands, chopsticks, or bamboo skewers. If you prefer not to …
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
Usually when people draw, they draw a thing, and then that thing floats in a kind of nothing space called the “background.” But what would happen if you didn’t draw things? What would happen if instead of things you drew the space between things? What would it look like to draw the air or the …
Neil Welliver is one of Patty Haller’s inspirational artists. See a resemblance? Neil Welliver in conversation with Edwin Denby Q. Why do you staple the big charcoal drawing to the white canvas? A. The charcoal drawing, when it is stapled to the white canvas, is ready to be transferred to the canvas and it’s been …
Headless Portraits
Victorians combined images from multiple negatives to create portraits known as “Headless Photographs.” (19th century) Not one cracked a smile.
If Victorians had Facebook, would they have posted this?
Happy Halloween!
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