[image_with_animation image_url=”7749″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Make ink blots by applying paint, ink, ketchup (or anything else around) in a random pattern, then immediately folding and pressing the paper in half. Open the paper back up, and tell us what you see. Share photographs of your Rorschachs and what you see in them (and in others’) to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Demos Master sumi-e painter Angie Dixon demonstrates the bamboo joint, bone, and leaf brush strokes. Dixon says a great sumi-e painting combines a variety of wet and dry, light and dark, thick and thin brush strokes. She says you can’t fix a brush stroke, but you can enhance it. Beginning Sumi-e Student Work [gallery …
The chicken paintings featured in this V-Note are by Endre Penovác. The chicken letter that follows was written in 1870, sent to the Poultry Society. The title proclaims it’s a manual about how to raise fine poultry. The content, however, renders itself informational for how to steal birds from your neighbor (or yourself, if you’re an idiot). It was signed by …
Ask nearly any artist “what is the most important thing to have with you at all times?” They’ll say a sketchbook. It’s a place for ideas, notes, and practice. It’s also a place where we can explore and try new things without pressure. A sketchbook page doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, it’s just a …
If You Could Only Save the Louvre’s Art or Its Visitors, Which Would You Save? This week’s question is a variation of one from The Book of Questions, stolen boldly and without remorse from Wait But Why. “Say on a given morning, there are 100 people in the Louvre in Paris. If a wicked sorcerer threatened …
SAL Challenge Day 20: Rorschach
[image_with_animation image_url=”7749″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Make ink blots by applying paint, ink, ketchup (or anything else around) in a random pattern, then immediately folding and pressing the paper in half. Open the paper back up, and tell us what you see. Share photographs of your Rorschachs and what you see in them (and in others’) to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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