In January we sent out 30 days of Creative Challenges. I heard that many of you were doing the challenges at home, and a few of you were outgoing enough to post your projects to our facebook page. It was a thrill to see them every day. Thank you!
I had promised there would be awards given for Creative Champions, for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. I was very surprised to discover the Challenge was a tie shared by six participants! Each of the six will receive a $100 gift certificate for art classes at the League. We’re looking forward to making artworks with you.
I posted recently about how originality is not really what we’re built for. You can read that post here. After saying how natural copying is, I thought I should follow up with some conversations about copyright issues. Typically these conversations go straight to talking about the legal system. I personally find the artistic, personal, and moral …
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, …
In recent V. Notes, I have shared some of Carlos San Millan’s favorite painters. So far I’ve posted Kim Frohsin, Mitchell Johnson, Yann Kebbi, Марина Цветаева (Marina Tsvetyeva), and Sangram Majumdar. Today I’m posting Bato Dugarzhapov. Bato is a Russian painter born in 1966. I had his work saved for a V. Note someday. Looks …
This challenge was from Catherine Lepp, our newest instructor from the New York Studio School: draw the head of a classical sculpture using only circles and straight lines.
SAL Challenge Champions
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Michele Yanow
In January we sent out 30 days of Creative Challenges. I heard that many of you were doing the challenges at home, and a few of you were outgoing enough to post your projects to our facebook page. It was a thrill to see them every day. Thank you!
I had promised there would be awards given for Creative Champions, for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. I was very surprised to discover the Challenge was a tie shared by six participants! Each of the six will receive a $100 gift certificate for art classes at the League. We’re looking forward to making artworks with you.
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