This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. Make something today!
Prizes awarded for creativity and participation
To be eligible for a prize, and to help motivate other people, post your creative project to Facebook or Instagram or email it to me directly, and use the hashtags below.
SAL Challenge
UNCIFORM
Yesterday’s word was urceiform, which is vase or pitcher-shaped. Today’s word is unciform: hook shaped.
Set the timer for 20 minutes. You can draw, paint, print, collage, sew sculpt your food, anything you want.
Post or email your project using these tags:
#salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
[image_with_animation image_url=”10969″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Best print of the day: Katy’s Aurora Bridge and Connie’s Octopus combined Steamroller Moments: Nikki (printmaking instructor and lead for the day) telling Nickie (certified heavy equipment operator) where to aim the steamroller to get the maximum out of the press. Nikki and Nickie nailed it to the quarter …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7856″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Siobhan Wilder, painting in progress When I was little, before I could write, I would pretend to write in cursive. I’d take a pencil and paper and draw repeated double loops like cursive f’s, and scrawl graceful wavy lumpy lines. That’s what cursive looked like. I’d pretend to …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7110″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Monotypes are one of a kind prints made from an unetched plate. Ink is applied to the plate, and then additive or subtractive processes with ink form an image. For my monotypes, I used a rag, a soft brush, a stencil, a makeup sponge, and a pencil shaped dowel …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8549″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Several years ago I took a few Chinese Ink painting classes from Kiki MacInnis and Bang Jin Sun at Pratt. I learned about several styles of traditional and contemporary ink painting, none of which I can remember well enough to name at the moment (sound of shuffling through old …
SAL Challenge 3: UNCIFORM
This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. Make something today!
Prizes awarded for creativity and participation
To be eligible for a prize, and to help motivate other people, post your creative project to Facebook or Instagram or email it to me directly, and use the hashtags below.
SAL Challenge
UNCIFORM
Yesterday’s word was urceiform, which is vase or pitcher-shaped. Today’s word is unciform: hook shaped.
Set the timer for 20 minutes. You can draw, paint, print, collage, sew sculpt your food, anything you want.
Post or email your project using these tags:
#salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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