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.
I look at a lot of art, and I don’t tend to see colored pencil drawings popping up in the mix of esteemed or daring artworks. Oils, pastels, graphite, watercolor, ink, even conte is common in museums and galleries, but colored pencils seem to be a material outgrown as soon as any of the others …
The Seattle Artist League is opening a clay studio and will be offering IN PERSON pottery classes in South Seattle this summer. In addition to our drawing and painting classes both online and in person, we will be offering classes in wheel throwing and handbuilding clay forms. I am tremendously excited about this. When I …
I’d like to also mention Wendy Lumsdaine, for her stitch sketches. Every one of her posts has been a tondo! Inspired? There’s still time! Every doodle counts! Start where you are, and make something. Not a perfect something, just a something. Something is infinitely more than nothing, and that’s a big win for us …
Blemmyes are mythical creatures without a head, with their facial features on their chest. Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders. Epiphagi, a variant name for the headless people of the Brisone, is sometimes used as a term referring strictly to the eyes-on-the-shoulders type. One of the creative …
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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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