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! Scavenge, invent, modify, build. Use your hands, use your feet. Grab an old toothbrush, cut a stick from the garden, pluck a feather, bundle q-tips, take a deep breath and blow. Find something and make it work! Here are some ideas for making marks without art store art supplies:
Launch your creativity for 2020 with this 30 day Creative Challenge. Connie Pierson How it works January 1-30 we’ll post a daily creative challenge to our website. V.Notes subscribers will receive this post in their inbox every day at 7am. If you want to participate, subscribe to V. notes. Help us grow! Invite your friends to …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9075″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Hiroshige lived from 1797 – 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan. He was a Japanese woodblock artist, one of the last great masters of the woodblock print. His brilliant landscape compositions found their way to the West (Japoniseme), influencing Impressionists and Post-Impressionists such as Degas, Manet, and Monet. …
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 …
We are very nearly done with our 30 day creative challenge. Just three more days! Today’s challenge is to design a challenge. Think of something that you’d enjoy, something unusual that unlocks your creativity. Post clear directions, suggested materials, and an example or two to Padlet. The winning entry will be given to everyone for …
Anti-Art Supplies
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! Scavenge, invent, modify, build. Use your hands, use your feet. Grab an old toothbrush, cut a stick from the garden, pluck a feather, bundle q-tips, take a deep breath and blow. Find something and make it work! Here are some ideas for making marks without art store art supplies:
Bug Works by entomologist Steven R. Kutcher
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Diane Victor’s Smoke Drawings
https://vimeo.com/20889877
Paul Smith’s Typewriter Drawings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiHyQhf9qAY
Cai Guo-Qiang’s Firework Drawings
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