[image_with_animation image_url=”7137″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Occasionally I can’t find my own darned painting on my own darned computer, so I’ll ask Google if it’s online somewhere. Today I was working on portrait palettes, and was looking for some of the quick portrait studies I’ve done. I remembered one and couldn’t find it on my computer, so I searched for it on Google. Pictured above is the painting I was looking for, “The Look.” Below are two images that came up along with it, side by side. The first is by Nicolai Fechin, the second is Snow White by Disney. While they don’t resemble my little study, they do strongly resemble each other. Placement of hands, placement of figure, angle of face, birds vs scissors. How strange. [image_with_animation image_url=”7151″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7152″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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. TUCKET : a fanfare on a trumpet Merriam-Webster: Tucket can be found most notably …
I got this idea from Makena Gadient at the recent CoCA 24 hour Art Marathon. This is an excellent design study. Take a stack of cards. Using a big sewing needle, poke random holes into the stack of cards so they all have the same pattern of holes. Then, using the same holes, create a …
Portrait of Anu Garg, author of a word a day, A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English, and more. Anu is a brightly smiling person, but sitting still-ish for any amount of time (15 minutes?) tends to make people look serious. I want to draw …
Bird vs Scissors
[image_with_animation image_url=”7137″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Occasionally I can’t find my own darned painting on my own darned computer, so I’ll ask Google if it’s online somewhere. Today I was working on portrait palettes, and was looking for some of the quick portrait studies I’ve done. I remembered one and couldn’t find it on my computer, so I searched for it on Google. Pictured above is the painting I was looking for, “The Look.” Below are two images that came up along with it, side by side. The first is by Nicolai Fechin, the second is Snow White by Disney. While they don’t resemble my little study, they do strongly resemble each other. Placement of hands, placement of figure, angle of face, birds vs scissors. How strange. [image_with_animation image_url=”7151″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7152″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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