Most League artists are busy people. You’re not the only one! I want to make these projects challenging but still accessible. If you miss a day, no biggie. If you miss two, join the club. If you can only do one out of 30, you still did one! Last I checked, one is way better than none. My suggestion: if you’re a busy person with a life and stuff, try for two a week. You can wait to see which challenge was your favorite, and do them on a weekend. Won’t that be lovely?
I’m giving prizes for participation every week, so if you post one single little itty bitty drawing to Facebook or Instagram (#salchallenge, #seattleartistleague), you’re still in the pool to win something special. So get that pencil and glue your butt to the chair long enough to make some marks. That’s the crazy stupid way it starts. You’re sharing this experience with countless others, right at this moment, and we’re all rooting for you.
“Sketchbooks are a place for experimentation, self reflection, technical practice, and developing an artistic identity,” says Keith Pfeiffer, official sketchbook class instructor. (To be cheeky, we called it Advanced Doodling.) I asked Keith what his favorite sketchbook was. Here is what he said: “My favorite sketchbook is Moleskine sketchbook 9×12. The paper is smooth enough for clean …
Frohsin is another painter on the list of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. He had talked about wanting to develop his work into more flat color fields, a move towards the abstract. These paintings by Frohsin and others are his inspirations. I liked these abstracted figures so much I did some research and found more of …
Today is the 3rd straight day of record heat in Seattle, up to 108 degrees. It got me wondering what it would look like to draw “hot.” What does “hot” look like? How do you draw heat? Here are some fun digital ideas from young artists for how they might draw heat, from Draw Something. …
This is an incomplete post, more to come. Akio Takamori’s Sleepers [gallery ids=”4330,4331,4332,4333,4334,4335,4336,4337,4338,4339,4340,4341,4342,4343,4345,4346″ onclick=”link_no[divider line_type=”Full Width Line” custom_height=”30 From the Stranger: Seattle Artist Akio Takamori Has Died by Rich Smith • Jan 12, 2017 at 3:20 pm 1950-2017 JEN GRAVES Akio Takamori died of cancer on Wednesday night. As Jen Graves mentioned in a recent …
SAL Challenge: Want to jump in, but limited on time?
Most League artists are busy people. You’re not the only one! I want to make these projects challenging but still accessible. If you miss a day, no biggie. If you miss two, join the club. If you can only do one out of 30, you still did one! Last I checked, one is way better than none. My suggestion: if you’re a busy person with a life and stuff, try for two a week. You can wait to see which challenge was your favorite, and do them on a weekend. Won’t that be lovely?
I’m giving prizes for participation every week, so if you post one single little itty bitty drawing to Facebook or Instagram (#salchallenge, #seattleartistleague), you’re still in the pool to win something special. So get that pencil and glue your butt to the chair long enough to make some marks. That’s the crazy stupid way it starts. You’re sharing this experience with countless others, right at this moment, and we’re all rooting for you.
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