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.
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
Michelle Muldrow uses the aqueous and graphic casein paint to give fresh painterly color to her urban landscapes. Her scenes describe the buzzing light and glinting metal, linoleum, and synthetic fabrics of department stores. Edited from her website: Muldrow explores the the landscape genre and what it means to be picturesque. She contrasts the idea of the picturesque by …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9524″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the sixth and last part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different …
Welcome to day 3 of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Seattle is flooded today. There are quick moving streams along the sides of roads. Puddles the size of lakes. The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens. The alternative challenge is to make a comic based …
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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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