[image_with_animation image_url=”11190″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sun Days was a collection of four paintings started by Anne McGurk. I added to the collection, so here now is 20. Ha. I had hoped to also add a poem, but after reading about suns and moons and how womens’ eyes and bosoms sparkle, or nature this and birdies that, or the end of the world and politicians and all red burning armageddon (seemed the most fitting for the times, but by fitting I mean you’d all be in fits from reading it), I decided against a poem. If someone knows a good one, send it, but it better have no burnings, birdies, or bosoms.
Left: A drawing by Jennifer Ament, spotted at the Seattle Art Fair. I feel she knows me.
Enjoy the paintings.
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Sundays are observational drawing day in our 30 day creative challenge. We’re almost done with the month! Seeing things from various points of view is a great way to feed yourself ideas, challenge what you think you know, and surprise yourself with something new. Think of the Indian story about the six blind monks who …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10104″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Take a color or a black and white photograph. Cover it with a sheet of tracing paper, or flip it over and hold it up to the light so you can see the image. Use a thick black felt tipped pen to outline the main shapes. Your goal is …
I was interested in learning some new language to talk about what is so captivating about Charity Baker’s drawings and paintings. Charity gave me a list of her teachers, Barbara Grossman was one of them. Barbara Grossman’s artworks are impressionistic, abstracted, full of color and pattern. Instead of drawing with focal points and perspective, she …
Before all those orange artworks, I was posting about Figure in Interior; the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of. I talked about Cezanne, and how making small marks distributed around the page (thank you to Fran O’Neill) can be a way to integrate time and change within a drawing. My premise …
Sun Days
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Sun Days was a collection of four paintings started by Anne McGurk. I added to the collection, so here now is 20. Ha. I had hoped to also add a poem, but after reading about suns and moons and how womens’ eyes and bosoms sparkle, or nature this and birdies that, or the end of the world and politicians and all red burning armageddon (seemed the most fitting for the times, but by fitting I mean you’d all be in fits from reading it), I decided against a poem. If someone knows a good one, send it, but it better have no burnings, birdies, or bosoms.
Left: A drawing by Jennifer Ament, spotted at the Seattle Art Fair. I feel she knows me.
Enjoy the paintings.
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