Two days ago I encouraged you all to post your work to the website, in the comments section. I didn’t realize that our WordPress format doesn’t allow comments with pictures. Oops. Luckily Berkeley Parks sent in her collection (5 more days to go!). I was so thrilled to see what she made I decided to post it myself. Berkeley has taken several classes at the League. Her work is multi-dimensional, tactile, and creatively clever.
Monotypes are like a painter’s sketch, run through the press. They’re both more immediate, and more re-workable than any other form of printmaking. Once through the press, you can draw or paint on it, or you can do something else and run it through again. It’s instant, and it’s surprising. Every time I do it …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. COIFFURE the arrangement of the hair “They …
Last quarter Keith Pfeiffer and I taught a series on color. As promised, this was not a typical color theory class. Here are a few of my favorite student works from one of my favorite exercises. These paintings are made with compressed values, and some are entirely all one light/dark value. Some of them are …
SAL Challenge: Work by Berkeley Parks
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The Unpostible Post
Two days ago I encouraged you all to post your work to the website, in the comments section. I didn’t realize that our WordPress format doesn’t allow comments with pictures. Oops. Luckily Berkeley Parks sent in her collection (5 more days to go!). I was so thrilled to see what she made I decided to post it myself. Berkeley has taken several classes at the League. Her work is multi-dimensional, tactile, and creatively clever.
SAL Challenge Works by Berkeley Parks
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