Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. ANTHROPORMORPHIC suggesting human features for animals or …
Before there were art supply stores, people made art. Before there were pencils, there were sharpened mineral rocks. Before there were brushes there were clumps of grass and twigs and fur. Today’s drawing is “No Art Store Tools.” You can use paper, but no pencils. Ink is fine, but no pens. So what now? Lots! …
Today’s memory challenge is to study an artwork done by a skilled artist. It can be a sculpture, rough sketch, finished drawing, painting, or print. For simplicity in this post, I’ll be using the word “draw,” but you are not restricted to drawings. Feel free to use any media, including sculpture. For simplicity in your …
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, …
Gerhard Richter: Candles
Gerhard Richter is a German painter, a rare genre splitter whose squeegee abstracts are just as respected and challenging as his photorealistic works.
These candle paintings are oil on canvas, about 30 to 55 inches wide, painted in the 1980s.
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