[image_with_animation image_url=”7636″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a textile artist, designer, and printmaker. You likely know of her husband Joseph Albers, the colorist. No doubt the two inspired each other. I recently ran into a book of Anni’s sketches, each page a sheet of graph paper with a different pattern idea. Most were drawn with pencil, lots of erasing and redrawing. Some were emphasized with color. The plans are a lovely example of how limits (all moves fit within graph paper, or within warp/weft) can result in some brilliant creative responses. Her sketches are quite delightful. Take a closer look at them, and notice how some are not completely regular, but instead have within them little rules, gently broken. A pattern set, and deviated. She reminds me that a pattern does not have to be uniform and consistent. A little change in direction here and there makes it interesting, less rigid. (In a way, these patterns remind me of Patty Haller’s patterns, variations on a theme.) For today’s challenge, make a pattern. Feel free to weave, photo, collage, print, paint, or draw. If you need to print out a piece of graph paper, click here. Take a picture of your piece and add it to this post on our Facebook page. Tag: #salchallenge
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The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Yesterday I posted drawings by Stanley Lewis. Lewis was one of the influences listed by Charity Baker at the New York Studio School. Looking through Lewis’ art and writing, I found an interview on Painting Perceptions that talked about his methods, and his influences: “[Painting from perception] often feels like a horribly impossible thing to …
“Almost everyone can remember in grade school art class placing a sheet of paper over the face of a coin or some other textured object and rubbing it with a crayon. I employed this same method – known as frottage – to create the following portraits. For Beckett’s likeness, I had embossed plates made of …
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 …
Whatever you have is fine. Really. You don’t need to feel bad or unprepared if you don’t have a #6 brush. You don’t need it. What you need is around you, at your feet. You need that scrap of paper from the bin, the broken plate, the corner of your dirty shirt, and some beet …
SAL Challenge Day 9: Pattern
[image_with_animation image_url=”7636″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a textile artist, designer, and printmaker. You likely know of her husband Joseph Albers, the colorist. No doubt the two inspired each other. I recently ran into a book of Anni’s sketches, each page a sheet of graph paper with a different pattern idea. Most were drawn with pencil, lots of erasing and redrawing. Some were emphasized with color. The plans are a lovely example of how limits (all moves fit within graph paper, or within warp/weft) can result in some brilliant creative responses. Her sketches are quite delightful. Take a closer look at them, and notice how some are not completely regular, but instead have within them little rules, gently broken. A pattern set, and deviated. She reminds me that a pattern does not have to be uniform and consistent. A little change in direction here and there makes it interesting, less rigid. (In a way, these patterns remind me of Patty Haller’s patterns, variations on a theme.) For today’s challenge, make a pattern. Feel free to weave, photo, collage, print, paint, or draw. If you need to print out a piece of graph paper, click here. Take a picture of your piece and add it to this post on our Facebook page. Tag: #salchallenge
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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