One of Akira Kurosawa’s many gifts was staging scenes in ways that were bold, simple and visual. Here’s another short by Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting” series, with ideas for film that can be applied to your paintings. (3 minutes)
[image_with_animation image_url=”8958″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Alex Walker, an Especially Enjoyable student in my Intermediate Studio class, decided to work on making his brushwork more direct and decisive by doing a study of John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Henry James. Since his pilgrimage to see it in London brought the sad news that the painting …
This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. I’ll send out a word for the day, and you respond. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. Make something today! Prizes awarded for creativity and participation To be eligible for a prize, and …
“Winter solitude- in a world of one color the sound of the wind.” ― Bashō Matsuo From yesterday’s post: As a child, I collected the little cards with Japanese prints that came in ochazuke (breakfast rice soup sprinkles). The compositions were asymmetrical (diagonals!), the illustrations imaginative, and the colors shifted elegantly from the blunt American palette – the …
This is been a fantastically prolific challenge! As I write this, there are 1,271 #30sal Instagram posts, and they’re still coming in. WOW! It has been a lot of fun for me to throw out ideas and see what you all create. Thank you to all the local people who participated, and shared this with …
The Geometry of a Scene
One of Akira Kurosawa’s many gifts was staging scenes in ways that were bold, simple and visual. Here’s another short by Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting” series, with ideas for film that can be applied to your paintings. (3 minutes)
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This is been a fantastically prolific challenge! As I write this, there are 1,271 #30sal Instagram posts, and they’re still coming in. WOW! It has been a lot of fun for me to throw out ideas and see what you all create. Thank you to all the local people who participated, and shared this with …