[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”7901″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]I learned from the fabulous Suzanne Walker that this narrative painting “The Story of Joseph” by Biagio d’Antonio uses space as a representative for chronological time. The painting illustrates a story that follows a sequence clockwise around an ellipse, starting at the upper left. The scenes that happened farther back in time are shown as farther away (and higher and smaller) in the background, and the scenes that happened more recently are closer (and lower and larger) in the foreground. Characters repeat from scene to scene.
Today, draw/paint/print/collage a narrative, in which individual scenes follow an elliptical “C” or “S” shaped curve, with the first events farther away (and higher and smaller), and the next events following a curve to get closer (and lower and larger) on the page. Share your drawings to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
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Tuesday is Memory and Imagination day in our 30 Day Challenge. Dreams are today’s topic. I’ve collected artworks with dream imagery, or at least artworks that were stirred up when I searched Google for artworks with “Dream” in the title. Your challenge today is to recreate a dreamscape. You can draw, paint, print, collage, assemblage, …
What comes to mind when you think of Williem De Kooning? Do you imagine a splayed cacophony of brash and muddy colors? Maniacally grinning women with enormous boob sacks? Maybe you admire his bold expressiveness, or maybe De Kooning comes with bafflement over the proud abandonment of skill and apparent lack of care in such …
Minakata Kumagusu (1867 – 1941) was a Japanese author, biologist, and ethnologist. In his study of fungi, Minakata collected and drew thousands of mycological illustrations. Here are a few excerpts from his beautiful and informative sketchbooks. He discovered a new slime mold from all this sketching. That’s nothing to sneeze at.
[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Painting above by Fredericka Foster. More by Foster at the end of this post. What makes painted water look like water? Is it the tone of blue, or by the reflective color of the sky? Is it optic magic from glazes and transparent pigments? Or is it …
SAL Challenge Day 29: Narrative
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”7901″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]I learned from the fabulous Suzanne Walker that this narrative painting “The Story of Joseph” by Biagio d’Antonio uses space as a representative for chronological time. The painting illustrates a story that follows a sequence clockwise around an ellipse, starting at the upper left. The scenes that happened farther back in time are shown as farther away (and higher and smaller) in the background, and the scenes that happened more recently are closer (and lower and larger) in the foreground. Characters repeat from scene to scene.
Today, draw/paint/print/collage a narrative, in which individual scenes follow an elliptical “C” or “S” shaped curve, with the first events farther away (and higher and smaller), and the next events following a curve to get closer (and lower and larger) on the page. Share your drawings to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
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