This creative challenge has 3 parts, but if parts 2 and 3 don’t work with the light and where you are, or if they’re just not working creatively, feel free to just do part 1, and post your work. See below for a link to examples by Stuart Shils.
PART 1: Find a window that allows a path of light into the room, or use a car window. Add various sizes and shapes and colors of tape and paper to the window, to form a collage. Play with opaque and transparent pieces, and overlapping layers. Take a photograph, and crop for composition.
PART 2: If the light is strong enough, your collage might also make shadows on a wall or surface inside the room. Take a picture of the shadows, and crop for composition.
PART 3: Respond to the cast shadows by adding tape and paper to where the shadows land on the wall, in a way that interacts and forms an interesting composition. Take a photograph, and crop for composition.
[image_with_animation image_url=”7137″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Occasionally I can’t find my own darned painting on my own darned computer, so I’ll ask Google if it’s online somewhere. Today I was working on portrait palettes, and was looking for some of the quick portrait studies I’ve done. I remembered one and couldn’t find it on my …
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Launch your creativity for 2020 with this 30 day Creative Challenge. Connie Pierson How it works January 1-30 we’ll post a daily creative challenge to our website. V.Notes subscribers will receive this post in their inbox every day at 7am. If you want to participate, subscribe to V. notes. Help us grow! Invite your friends to …
From the Latin (via Italian) fumare (“to smoke”), sfumato describes a painting technique with no harsh outlines. Areas blend into one another through tiny brushstrokes, which makes a hazy, atmospheric depiction of light and color. An early example of sfumato can be seen in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. A more modern example is in Y.Z. Kami’s giant meditative portraits. Pronunciation: sfoo·mah·toe ” img_size=”full Xandy Peters : Sfumato …
SAL Challenge Day 22: Window Collages
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Window Collage by Stuart Shils
This creative challenge has 3 parts, but if parts 2 and 3 don’t work with the light and where you are, or if they’re just not working creatively, feel free to just do part 1, and post your work. See below for a link to examples by Stuart Shils.
PART 1: Find a window that allows a path of light into the room, or use a car window. Add various sizes and shapes and colors of tape and paper to the window, to form a collage. Play with opaque and transparent pieces, and overlapping layers. Take a photograph, and crop for composition.
PART 2: If the light is strong enough, your collage might also make shadows on a wall or surface inside the room. Take a picture of the shadows, and crop for composition.
PART 3: Respond to the cast shadows by adding tape and paper to where the shadows land on the wall, in a way that interacts and forms an interesting composition. Take a photograph, and crop for composition.
For examples of window collages by Stuart Shils, click here.
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