[image_with_animation image_url=”7537″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Look around you. If you were a travel agency, hoping to entice someone to this place, what would you put on the postcard? Draw, paint, or collage a postcard with this picture, saying “Wish You Were Here.” Sarcasm and irony are very welcome. Take a picture of your piece and add it to this post our Facebook page. Tag: #salchallenge
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Note: Yesterday I said we might build on your “Zoo View” drawings from day 5. I changed my mind. So there.
[image_with_animation image_url=”7409″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Draw, paint, or collage half a self portrait, life size, so when you hold it up it completes your face. Your drawing can be realistic, or made up. If it is made up, have lines on the paper that connect the drawing to your real face. Take a picture …
WTF The quote from Gerhard Richter about looking for boring and irrelevant photo materials is from the upcoming lecture on Portraiture After Photography – part of our ongoing WTF Art History Lecture series with Suzanne Walker (BA, MA, PhD, BFD). These lectures are one of a kind, and not recorded. Don’t miss Suzanne Walker’s latest spitfire! …
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 …
When we first went online in February 2020, I thought it would just be for a few weeks. Now here we are 18 months later, still online. I thought online would be cold and distant. I thought there’d be no way to teach anything specific. Turns out there’s a lot we can do from our …
SAL Challenge Day 6: Wish You Were Here
[image_with_animation image_url=”7537″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Look around you. If you were a travel agency, hoping to entice someone to this place, what would you put on the postcard? Draw, paint, or collage a postcard with this picture, saying “Wish You Were Here.” Sarcasm and irony are very welcome. Take a picture of your piece and add it to this post our Facebook page. Tag: #salchallenge
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Note: Yesterday I said we might build on your “Zoo View” drawings from day 5. I changed my mind. So there.
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