Chris Harvey has a lot of long straight architectural lines in his painting, and no matter what he tried, every pass with the brush resulted in another wobbly line. The wobbles weren’t interesting or expressive, they were distracting from the painting’s quality and mood, so I built him a bridge. This bridge is very fancy. I stuck 2 pins in a board, and voila! We have ourselves a tool that helps a person paint straight lines. (Chris has honored it with a name: “The Tool.”)
I’ve never understood why people berate their artistic abilities by saying “I can’t even make a straight line.” People, you don’t have to. That’s what tools are for.
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Hopefully Chris can finish the painting in time for the Seattle Artist League show! All students and teachers are encouraged to bring in work. Next month I’ll show you how to make a tool that slows time. You’ll need five rubber bands, a paperclip, and 3 extra long zip ties for that one.
Isn’t this a lovely colored pencil drawing? Klimt made more drawings, but they deserve their own room. They’re mostly nude women with their crotches on display. Take your colored pencils anywhere!
[image_with_animation image_url=”14063″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There was so much interesting material produced in day one of this two day workshop “Portraiture After Photography” I wanted to share it. The morning slideshow focused on photography as a tool for abstraction, launching from an in depth look at multi exposure photographs taken by John Deakin and …
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We’ve had an overwhelming response to our 30 Day January Creative Challenge. Artists are posting from around the world! The invitation was to post on Instagram or Facebook, but clearly Instagram is the social media of choice for most artists, over 700 posts on Instagram so far! Some people are new to Instagram, some are …
The Bridge: A Very Fancy Painting Tool
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Image above from Urban Sketchers Chicago
Chris Harvey has a lot of long straight architectural lines in his painting, and no matter what he tried, every pass with the brush resulted in another wobbly line. The wobbles weren’t interesting or expressive, they were distracting from the painting’s quality and mood, so I built him a bridge. This bridge is very fancy. I stuck 2 pins in a board, and voila! We have ourselves a tool that helps a person paint straight lines. (Chris has honored it with a name: “The Tool.”)
I’ve never understood why people berate their artistic abilities by saying “I can’t even make a straight line.” People, you don’t have to. That’s what tools are for.
Hopefully Chris can finish the painting in time for the Seattle Artist League show! All students and teachers are encouraged to bring in work. Next month I’ll show you how to make a tool that slows time. You’ll need five rubber bands, a paperclip, and 3 extra long zip ties for that one.
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