[image_with_animation image_url=”9734″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I was sitting here, as one does, thinking “you know, I don’t actually remember what my own fingerprints look like. They’re right here in front of me, every day, and I couldn’t identify my own darned fingertip in a line-up.
Today, study and draw your fingerprint.
To make your fingerprint, roll the “print” portion of your finger over an ink pad from the left side to the right so you get the whole pattern, then repeat the movement over paper. You don’t have to push very hard. Study your print. It may be helpful to have a magnifying lens, or take a picture and zoom in to see it better. If you’re short on time, make one print. If you have more time, you have more fingers. Refer to the images below to figure out what type of pattern is in your fingerprints, then recreate your fingerprint, larger. A sharpie works well but media is artists’ choice. [image_with_animation image_url=”9759″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%[image_with_animation image_url=”9758″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post to Instagram or 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. [image_with_animation image_url=”9764″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
If a painting is said to be realistic it’s usually said to be “photorealistic” and this is meant to be a compliment. While I think realism is a valid description of style, photorealism is something else to me completely. The first problem is that “photorealism” assumes that images from a camera are realistic, but cameras hardly ever capture …
Day 16 of our 30 Day Challenge in January was: Create something using crosshatch. #crosshatch This prompt produced an exceptional number of great drawings!
Max Ernst used texture rubbings to overcome his fear of the white canvas, and ignite his imagination. “Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.” Max Ernst, 1891-1976 The embedded video preview does not appear to be working, so please click …
Andre Breton – Writer André Breton (French: [ɑ̃dʁe bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”. [divider line_type=”Full …
SAL Challenge: Fingerprint
[image_with_animation image_url=”9734″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I was sitting here, as one does, thinking “you know, I don’t actually remember what my own fingerprints look like. They’re right here in front of me, every day, and I couldn’t identify my own darned fingertip in a line-up.
Today, study and draw your fingerprint.
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days. [image_with_animation image_url=”9764″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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