“I remember when my Dad told me as a kid, ‘If you want to catch a rabbit, stand behind a tree and make a noise like a carrot. Then when the rabbit comes by you grab him.’ Works pretty good until you try to figure out what kind of noise a carrot makes…” – Bob Ross, Joy of Painting
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9399″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Francis Bacon’s studio Where do you make art? I find looking at artist’s spaces just as interesting as looking at the artwork made there. In part, what I’m looking at when I look at art spaces is how people adapt their space to suit their needs (how the studio …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9941″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Line drawing by William Anastasi A conversation between League friend and painter Fredericka Foster and composer/musician Phillip Glass has recently been published in Nautilus. Foster and Glass are talking about time. Philip Glass: There are many strange things about music and time. When I’m on a tour with the dance …
Rabbits in paintings
“I remember when my Dad told me as a kid, ‘If you want to catch a rabbit, stand behind a tree and make a noise like a carrot. Then when the rabbit comes by you grab him.’ Works pretty good until you try to figure out what kind of noise a carrot makes…” – Bob Ross, Joy of Painting
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
SAL Challenge: Creative Space
[image_with_animation image_url=”9399″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Francis Bacon’s studio Where do you make art? I find looking at artist’s spaces just as interesting as looking at the artwork made there. In part, what I’m looking at when I look at art spaces is how people adapt their space to suit their needs (how the studio …
SAL Challenge: Time (quick)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9941″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Line drawing by William Anastasi A conversation between League friend and painter Fredericka Foster and composer/musician Phillip Glass has recently been published in Nautilus. Foster and Glass are talking about time. Philip Glass: There are many strange things about music and time. When I’m on a tour with the dance …
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