What did you do yesterday? Draw, collage, paint, print…. make us a picture to tell us about your day. Share your sketches to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) We also had some great inkblots posted yesterday. While you’re there, check them out, and tell us what you see in them.
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
A brief visual history of political propaganda design. BY MARIA POPOVA Original post from BrainPickings The intersection of propaganda and creative culture has always been a centerpiece of political communication, from the branding of totalitarian regimes to the design legacy of the Works Progress Administration to Soviet animated propaganda. Now, from The Library of Congress …
Catherine Lepp’s latest series of watercolors presents a striking yet delicate blend of colors on rice paper. I’m delighted to share some of her newest works with you. You can see right away that these watercolors are not painted on the typical cold press watercolor paper. This paper is smooth, delicate, ethereal. Catherine Lepp is …
In the late 1940s, several prominent artists of the New York School– including Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Frank Stella–were intently studying the color black. That work, interrelated but not collaborative, resulted in 20 years of black: textured black, striped black, blue-black, brown-black, black-black, blackish, and blackity-black-black paintings. With a Google image search, …
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Madelaine Mimi Torchia Boothby (League artist), 2017
What did you do yesterday? Draw, collage, paint, print…. make us a picture to tell us about your day. Share your sketches to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) We also had some great inkblots posted yesterday. While you’re there, check them out, and tell us what you see in them.
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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