Set up a backdrop (to minimize visual clutter), and place an object or objects behind water glasses so that they form an interesting composition. Adjust lighting as needed, move things around for maximum effect, and crop for composition. Feel free to submit your work in the form of a photograph or a drawing/painting. Share your work to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge). Thanks to Berkeley Parks for sending in this excellent example of distorted food through water glasses, photographs by Suzanne Saroff. See more of Saroff’s work here.
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman I wrote a V-Note September 19, 2016 about simplification and massing. You can read it here. Today’s V-Note: Marc Bohne One of the (many) reasons I struggle to paint outside is that I get so danged overwhelmed by everything. There’s …
“Winter solitude- in a world of one color the sound of the wind.” ― Bashō Matsuo From yesterday’s post: As a child, I collected the little cards with Japanese prints that came in ochazuke (breakfast rice soup sprinkles). The compositions were asymmetrical (diagonals!), the illustrations imaginative, and the colors shifted elegantly from the blunt American palette – the …
Keith Pfeiffer trained as an illustrator, and recently decided to jump over the fence to be a professional fine artist. His observation based drawings are finely tuned and skillfully rendered, with a focus on line and tone. His sketches are posted on Instagram for very affordable prices. We had just hired him at the League …
If you’ve taken a drawing class, you might have learned to draw with 1 point, 2 point, and 3 point linear perspective. With this perspective method, objects that are farther away are drawn smaller, and perpendicular lines recede to common vanishing points in the distance. In inverse perspective, objects that are farther away are drawn …
SAL Challenge Day 30: You Need Glasses
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Suzanne Saroff
Set up a backdrop (to minimize visual clutter), and place an object or objects behind water glasses so that they form an interesting composition. Adjust lighting as needed, move things around for maximum effect, and crop for composition. Feel free to submit your work in the form of a photograph or a drawing/painting. Share your work to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge). Thanks to Berkeley Parks for sending in this excellent example of distorted food through water glasses, photographs by Suzanne Saroff. See more of Saroff’s work here.
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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