Did you know Piet Mondrian loved to paint trees? Draw/paint/collage a tree. Draw it from observation, not imagination, preferably from life and not a photograph. This is part 1 of 3. For the next two days we’ll do the same, only different. Add today’s artwork to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Welcome to another day of creative CrossFit! Today is 23 out of 30. Only one more week to go! I’ve been talking about various forms of perspective. Perspective has a lot of rules! Sometimes with all these rules about art, I forget that getting it “right” can actually make a drawing less interesting. Australian artist …
Blemmyes are mythical creatures without a head, with their facial features on their chest. Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders. Epiphagi, a variant name for the headless people of the Brisone, is sometimes used as a term referring strictly to the eyes-on-the-shoulders type. Below are some images …
Welcome another selection of faves from our January 30SAL Creative Challenge. Day 5 and 6 the challenges were Venus de Milo, and Coptic. Day 5: Venus de Milo This challenge was to finish the Venus de Milo. This was a fun one, and seemed to favor collage and digital work. Here are a few that …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7724″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Piet Mondrian, 1912 Yesterday’s challenge was to draw a tree from observation. That was part 1 of 3. Today is part 2 of 3. Today we’ll do the same, only different. Look again at the tree. If you did a drawing, study your drawing. Look at the branches, how …
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Piet Mondrian, 1908
Did you know Piet Mondrian loved to paint trees? Draw/paint/collage a tree. Draw it from observation, not imagination, preferably from life and not a photograph. This is part 1 of 3. For the next two days we’ll do the same, only different. Add today’s artwork to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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[image_with_animation image_url=”7724″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Piet Mondrian, 1912 Yesterday’s challenge was to draw a tree from observation. That was part 1 of 3. Today is part 2 of 3. Today we’ll do the same, only different. Look again at the tree. If you did a drawing, study your drawing. Look at the branches, how …