[image_with_animation image_url=”7211″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100% The League’s own over-pleasant extremely-talented teenager of the quarter is Mahala Mrozek. For the sake of art, Mahala stalked her neighborhood chickens, followed them around like a chicken paparazzi. She also found some helpful images on mypetchicken.com. She used the pictures as references for a series of works for a show but then was too sick to attend her own opening (chicken flu, I expect). Lovely line work on these! Now she’s got a flock of birds to sell, just shy of a dozen actually. I normally don’t use V. Notes for painting sales, but I’m making an exception. $30-$40 per beak. Watercolor and ink on paper, mounted on cradled panels. All sales go directly to the League’s neighborhood chicken stalker. Send me a note if you want one and it’ll be ready for pick up at the League this Thursday at or after 2pm.
The League has two different Friday portrait classes this summer. Which one would you rather be in? Would you rather…. Combine drawings from live models with studies from art history? …or study a variety of ages, expressions, and faces? Would you rather…. Add meaningful elements from imagination and intuition? Or measure and exaggerate to pull …
Today’s challenge is to draw using a disposable fork. This may at first seem odd and awkward, but if you think about it, a fork offers instant parallel crosshatch marks, saving you the time and trouble of drawing each line individually! Efficient. For this exercise, I recommend you avoid relying on outlines to describe the …
A pioneer in 20th century printmaking, Glen Alps was the professor and creator of the Printmaking Department at UW. Alps coined the term “collagraph” for his prints in the 1960s. The process was much more involved then traditional printmaking methods such as engraving, serigraph, or etching. Collagraphs are a low-tech, low toxic, and accessible printmaking process. …
Mahala the Chicken Stalker
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The League’s own over-pleasant extremely-talented teenager of the quarter is Mahala Mrozek. For the sake of art, Mahala stalked her neighborhood chickens, followed them around like a chicken paparazzi. She also found some helpful images on mypetchicken.com. She used the pictures as references for a series of works for a show but then was too sick to attend her own opening (chicken flu, I expect). Lovely line work on these! Now she’s got a flock of birds to sell, just shy of a dozen actually. I normally don’t use V. Notes for painting sales, but I’m making an exception. $30-$40 per beak. Watercolor and ink on paper, mounted on cradled panels. All sales go directly to the League’s neighborhood chicken stalker. Send me a note if you want one and it’ll be ready for pick up at the League this Thursday at or after 2pm.
Have you read Mark Twain’s essay To Raise Poultry?
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A pioneer in 20th century printmaking, Glen Alps was the professor and creator of the Printmaking Department at UW. Alps coined the term “collagraph” for his prints in the 1960s. The process was much more involved then traditional printmaking methods such as engraving, serigraph, or etching. Collagraphs are a low-tech, low toxic, and accessible printmaking process. …