[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]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![/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Here are some ideas for making marks without art store art supplies:[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]
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Though it doesn’t look revolutionary to a modern reader, this page from “Impact No. 1” (1955) may be the most analyzed page in comics history, says Vulture. Bernard Krigstein, a name known only by hard core comics fans, transported 1950’s comics into a new level of art, now so familiar its impact is underappreciated today. …
According to the National Gallery UK: The woman’s large white headdress, its calligraphic shape made up of stiff, angular folds, is striking against the dark background. Shading around the folds reinforces the sense of their depth, and the artist seems to want us to think that a fly, deceived by his illusion, has attempted to …
Frohsin is another painter on the list of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. He had talked about wanting to develop his work into more flat color fields, a move towards the abstract. These paintings by Frohsin and others are his inspirations. I liked these abstracted figures so much I did some research and found more of …
Painterly Figures with Tone was a 4 week shortie art class, snuck into November/December. This post includes some of my favorite moments from that class. Please kindly overlook any flaws in the photography. A Sunday evening class, the images were taken on the fly, and in the dark. A word about working from photographs… Typically …
Anti-Art Supplies
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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![/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Here are some ideas for making marks without art store art supplies:[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]
Bug Works by entomologist Steven R. Kutcher
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Diane Victor’s Smoke Drawings
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Paul Smith’s Typewriter Drawings
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s Firework Drawings
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Jihyun Park’s Incense Pointalism
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Guilin Guangxi’s Blow Ink
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Milk, Graphite Dust, and Q-Tip
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More ideas….
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According to the National Gallery UK: The woman’s large white headdress, its calligraphic shape made up of stiff, angular folds, is striking against the dark background. Shading around the folds reinforces the sense of their depth, and the artist seems to want us to think that a fly, deceived by his illusion, has attempted to …
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