Hey – who mailed us the gnarly stick with the bobcat stamp? We love it.
For the creative challenge today, let standardized paper and implements be darned. Mail us something strange. Do not post your strange mail to our facebook page. You wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise, would you? Anything that actually makes it to us, we’ll post!
Disclaimer: we’re not responsible for anything at all ever.
Seattle Artist League
10219 Aurora Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98133
It’s going to be a gorgeous weekend. I’d like to take my Cityscapes workshop on a field trip. Do you know a good spot for urban sketching on the North end? Below are some cityscapes by people. Enjoy! ” load_in_animation=”none Two more spots in my Cityscapes Workshop THIS WEEKEND May 11/12. Ice cream shops are urban, right?
This proclamation didn’t stop Chuck Close, who started painting portraits in the 1960s, 10 years after Pollock’s most famous drip paintings, and still during Greenberg’s reign. “I thought, ‘Well then, that field is wide open.’ And why the fuck can’t you make a portrait anyway?” – Chuck Close An informative little video WTF The quotes …
I’ve been talking about the the idea that shapes in a composition can be activated to hold each other in place. In this way, there is no background and no object, there is only the interaction of shapes on the surface of the canvas. Everything in the picture holds everything else in place. Intervals I’d …
Richard Diebenkorn Diebenkorn was an American painter. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. Wikipedia Born: April 22, 1922, Portland, OR Died: March 30, 1993, Berkeley, CA Artwork: Cityscape I, Ocean Park #54, …
SAL Challenge Day 15: Strange Mail
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Hey – who mailed us the gnarly stick with the bobcat stamp? We love it.
For the creative challenge today, let standardized paper and implements be darned. Mail us something strange. Do not post your strange mail to our facebook page. You wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise, would you? Anything that actually makes it to us, we’ll post!
Disclaimer: we’re not responsible for anything at all ever.
Seattle Artist League
10219 Aurora Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98133
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