A lot of people have been joining our Drawing A Day challenge. While most people prefer to keep their drawings private, a few brave and fabulous people have been posting their drawings to Facebook and Instagram, tagging them #seattleartleague and #drawingaday so we can all enjoy them. Below are few of my favorites posted by friends of the League, and the full collection of my own drawings.
Are you drawing? Send me a little note to say so! I like to know I’ve got buddies out there.
Daily Drawing Challenge #7: “Well that was a dumb idea.” This is a drawing of a little piece of my home town of Alameda, CA: the Spite House. Apparently a man named Charles Froling inherited some land but had the bulk of it taken away by the city in order to build a street. In a fit of righteous indignation, he used the remaining land to build an extremely skinny house. The house – which is only about 10 feet wide – is something of a local legend, so it’s possible that it worked out OK in the end. Even so, I maintain that this was not the best use of the land or the building. The folly of the house also extended to the materials I used in the drawing, as I was sure that the paper in my oatmeal sketchbook was strong enough to handle a little ink wash without buckling. Close inspection of the results will show that this was not the case.
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! If yesterday’s post sparked any pilgrimage plans, you may want to put another pin in the map. This from a reader: “Even though Julius II is buried in St. Peter’s basilica, the tomb is not there. The tomb was completed many years after his death and can be …
Have you heard the podcast “Everything is Alive“? In each episode of this unscripted interview series, inanimate objects share their perspectives, and tell us their life story. Louis, a can of cola, talks about his start at the lower generic shelves of the grocery store, then to the back of the fridge, and how he …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7871″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Claire Putney Draw/paint/collage/print/photograph what comes to your mind with the word “connectivity.” Share your sketches to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Artist Piotr Szyhalski’s COVID-19: Labor Camp Reports are a daily series of poster designs inspired by news events; the first posted on March 24, 2020. This prolific series can be seen on Instagram, and is soon to be published as a book (see Kickstarter video below). These “vintage” protest and propaganda poster designs are lush, …
Best of Drawing A Day, Week 1
A lot of people have been joining our Drawing A Day challenge. While most people prefer to keep their drawings private, a few brave and fabulous people have been posting their drawings to Facebook and Instagram, tagging them #seattleartleague and #drawingaday so we can all enjoy them. Below are few of my favorites posted by friends of the League, and the full collection of my own drawings.
Are you drawing? Send me a little note to say so! I like to know I’ve got buddies out there.
Daily Drawings by friends of the League
Daily Drawings by me, Ruthie V.
Daily Drawing Challenge #7: “Well that was a dumb idea.” This is a drawing of a little piece of my home town of Alameda, CA: the Spite House. Apparently a man named Charles Froling inherited some land but had the bulk of it taken away by the city in order to build a street. In a fit of righteous indignation, he used the remaining land to build an extremely skinny house. The house – which is only about 10 feet wide – is something of a local legend, so it’s possible that it worked out OK in the end. Even so, I maintain that this was not the best use of the land or the building. The folly of the house also extended to the materials I used in the drawing, as I was sure that the paper in my oatmeal sketchbook was strong enough to handle a little ink wash without buckling. Close inspection of the results will show that this was not the case.
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