I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. …
Painting above by Fredericka Foster. More by Foster at the end of this post. What makes painted water look like water? Is it the tone of blue, or by the reflective color of the sky? Is it optic magic from glazes and transparent pigments? Or is it indicated by perfect color mixes, sequences of color matches? What about …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10630″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] My last post was about Botticelli’s Squidgy Feet. In that post, I described Venus’ feet: “These hams are worms. Those are some long second toes, a sign of intelligence, say some. A second toe as long as a finger can be a very attractive feature…” The next day I received …
Today’s creative challenge idea comes from AJ Power, the League’s illustration and comics instructor. This project combines a scribble-and-respond drawing with an aspect of the panel exercise from Day 2. AJ calls it a “Monkey Wrench” project, because it gets you out of your habits, and gives you something unexpected to work with. The primary …
Drawing A Day, Day 11
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I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. …
100 Paintings of Water
Painting above by Fredericka Foster. More by Foster at the end of this post. What makes painted water look like water? Is it the tone of blue, or by the reflective color of the sky? Is it optic magic from glazes and transparent pigments? Or is it indicated by perfect color mixes, sequences of color matches? What about …
Venus’ Feet
[image_with_animation image_url=”10630″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] My last post was about Botticelli’s Squidgy Feet. In that post, I described Venus’ feet: “These hams are worms. Those are some long second toes, a sign of intelligence, say some. A second toe as long as a finger can be a very attractive feature…” The next day I received …
30SAL Challenge: Scribble Panels
Today’s creative challenge idea comes from AJ Power, the League’s illustration and comics instructor. This project combines a scribble-and-respond drawing with an aspect of the panel exercise from Day 2. AJ calls it a “Monkey Wrench” project, because it gets you out of your habits, and gives you something unexpected to work with. The primary …