The Salish Sea (the new name for the Puget Sound) is an ecological treasure, with thousands of natural animal species, many found nowhere else on Earth. There is a great Salish Sea Art & Activism lecture and workshop coming up at the League – the talk is June 10th. Today, draw something that lives in the Salish Sea.
Please share your work! People who post to Instagram or to the event HERE on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it #seattleartistleague #salchallenge.
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days.
As a painter, trying my hand at printmaking was a little frustrating. Ink on paper is gorgeous even when I make mistakes, but there was something about every print that drove me nuts. So what is it that’s so frustrating about printmaking? I was talking to Nikki about this. She had a good idea: traditional …
What is Intaglio? Simply put, there are two basic types of printmaking: prints made from the ink on top of the carved plate’s surface (like woodcuts). Woodcuts are a type of relief prints. The second type of printmaking is made from incised plates that are inked, then wiped off, leaving the ink in the …
Usually when people draw, they draw a thing, and then that thing floats in a kind of nothing space called the “background.” But what would happen if you didn’t draw things? What would happen if instead of things you drew the space between things? What would it look like to draw the air or the …
Drypoint, the art of scratching a shiny surface with a pointy thing, seemed to me to be an easy form of printmaking because I can draw with said pointy thing, and I don’t need to use any chemicals or excessive equipment. Honestly, though I thought I should give it a try, I really thought …
SAL Challenge: Salish Sea Creature
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Kiki MacInnis
The Salish Sea (the new name for the Puget Sound) is an ecological treasure, with thousands of natural animal species, many found nowhere else on Earth. There is a great Salish Sea Art & Activism lecture and workshop coming up at the League – the talk is June 10th. Today, draw something that lives in the Salish Sea.
Please share your work! People who post to Instagram or to the event HERE on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it #seattleartistleague #salchallenge.
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days.
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Image credit below: Mustelid Galleries
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