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.
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION This word has 29 letters, and …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9075″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Hiroshige lived from 1797 – 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan. He was a Japanese woodblock artist, one of the last great masters of the woodblock print. His brilliant landscape compositions found their way to the West (Japoniseme), influencing Impressionists and Post-Impressionists such as Degas, Manet, and Monet. …
Thanks to my Figure Drawing class for telling me about this! Have you seen this yet? On October 5th, the British graffiti artist Banksy pranked the art world with an unprecedented performance of artwork self destruction. Seconds after the auction gavel hit the table – awarding a buyer his work Girl with Balloon for 1.4 million …
One year ago, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. Four days after we offered our first zoom class, the virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for twelve months. As the paroxysm of …
SAL Challenge Day 17: Evolution of a Tree, Part 1 of 3
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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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