Marcia Della Pace SAL Challenge Pics More and more and more creative challenges are getting posted online! You can find them by using the hashtags #salchallenge @seattleartistleague. I posted some of my SAL Challenge favorites for week one, my favorites for week two, and for week three. Below are my favorite discoveries for the last week, including …
In a recent V. Note I talked about how artists study works by other artists. Transcriptions are like artist’s notes, recording selected aspects and observations in an artwork. Sometimes they serve as a jumping off point for artwork in completely new direction. Transcriptions are not copies. For a commission, Frank Auerbach transcribed Titian’s ‘Tarquin and …
I’ve been talking about the the idea that shapes in a composition can be activated to hold each other in place. In this way, there is no background and no object, there is only the interaction of shapes on the surface of the canvas. Everything in the picture holds everything else in place. Intervals I’d …
“…but when they get a bit besmirched, well then they are fair game.” – Diebenkorn “I don’t go into the studio with the idea of ‘saying’ something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.” – Richard Diebenkorn In the …
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