[image_with_animation image_url=”7670″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Find a stone you can comfortably hold in your hand. Without looking at it, spend a few minutes exploring it with your hands. Close your eyes. Feel the weight of the stone, the shape and balance and texture of it. Get to know it as well as you can, but only by touch. Notice that since you are exploring tactilely, there is no light and shadow, so you will need to find other ways to describe the form. Hold it under the table while you draw (you may need to tape down your paper), and draw what your touch senses tell you. If your drawings are simple, consider doing more than one to describe different aspects or angles of the stone, or a draw a second stone, and compare the two. Go slowly. Take your time. This is not an exercise to rush. Add your drawing to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Right now at the Seattle Art Museum, there’s a show of Alberto Giacometti‘s artworks. His drawings, paintings, and sculptures will be on display at SAM until October 9th. This is the second in a series of posts about Alberto Giacometti, who lived from 1901 – 1966. In the days since my last post about Alberto Giacometti’s brother …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11320″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Belinda Del Pesco, drypoint of someone making a drypoint Drypoint, a rather scratchy nails-on-chalboard kind of word, is a printmaking technique in which an image is incised into a plate with a pointy thing. I’ll get into more academic V.cabulary about this later, but for now I’m just …
William Robinson is an Australian painter, born in 1936. His enormous paintings of the Australian landscape often involve multiple perspectives with disorienting and twisting effects. He wants his viewers to feel that they are enclosed within a landscape, having it unfold before them. “Living in the country everything moves—the seasons, the clouds, nothing is set. …
SAL Challenge Day 13: Touch Senses, Drawing a Stone
[image_with_animation image_url=”7670″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Find a stone you can comfortably hold in your hand. Without looking at it, spend a few minutes exploring it with your hands. Close your eyes. Feel the weight of the stone, the shape and balance and texture of it. Get to know it as well as you can, but only by touch. Notice that since you are exploring tactilely, there is no light and shadow, so you will need to find other ways to describe the form. Hold it under the table while you draw (you may need to tape down your paper), and draw what your touch senses tell you. If your drawings are simple, consider doing more than one to describe different aspects or angles of the stone, or a draw a second stone, and compare the two. Go slowly. Take your time. This is not an exercise to rush. Add your drawing to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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