Get a few pieces of paper, and either crayons, or a pen. Take a deep breath, relax. Put crayon or pen to paper and watch what happens. Follow it like you are following a bug. As soon as your brain starts thinking of what you are drawing, switch crayons. As soon as you think the line should go right, go left. Let the drawing tool move from your hand without your brain controlling it. Anything that comes out of your hand is the right thing. When you are finished, if you are not completely satisfied with your drawing, cut it up and reassemble it.
Share your drawings to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Peter Laurent de Francia 1921 – 19 2012) was an Italian British artist. Influenced by nineteenth-century socialist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Honoré Daumier, as well as by socially committed artists of his time such as Renato Guttuso and Pablo Picasso, de Francia created artworks with a drive for social change. Peter de Francia wrote about the work of artist Fernand …
Welcome back to the 30SAL challenge! You can do this! Our 30 creative challenges are categorized by type: SUNDAY: Observation MONDAY: Composition TUESDAY: Sequence WEDNESDAY: See & Respond THURSDAY: Vocab FRIDAY: Transcribe SATURDAY: Wild Card Today is a SEQUENCE challenge: Document a day in the life of a _____. Media is artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, …
Before we move out of this big and beautiful space (and into a new big and beautiful space….) The Seattle Artist League is hosting a show of student work March 10, 11, 12 and we want you to be a part of it! Past and present students and teachers at the League, you are invited to …
Bump Hunting – A figure drawing technique in which an artist not well versed in anatomy compensates by looking for subtle bumps in the model’s contours. These bumps can be slightly exaggerated to articulate bones, tendons, fat, and muscles beneath the surface of the skin. V-cabulary is a new dictionary of invented art terms that would not …
SAL Challenge Day 23: Automatic Drawing
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Whiting Tennis
Get a few pieces of paper, and either crayons, or a pen. Take a deep breath, relax. Put crayon or pen to paper and watch what happens. Follow it like you are following a bug. As soon as your brain starts thinking of what you are drawing, switch crayons. As soon as you think the line should go right, go left. Let the drawing tool move from your hand without your brain controlling it. Anything that comes out of your hand is the right thing. When you are finished, if you are not completely satisfied with your drawing, cut it up and reassemble it.
Share your drawings to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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