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Below are some interesting artworks for week one that I wanted to share. The words for week one were unidextral, puerile, unlovesome, unguiform, unciform, urceiform, ubiquit. If you see your project here, contact me for your $25 gift certificate asap! You can use your award on a class, give it to a friend, or donate it to someone who needs a little boost.
Hey – If you thought about joining in but you missed the beginning, or you started to make one or two and then you fell off so you feel you can’t start again (yes, I’m talking to you), think of today a fresh start. Every doodle helps. So join us. Start where you are, and make something. Not a perfect something, just a something. Something is infinitely more than nothing, and that’s a big win for us all.
Pictured above: Patty Haller’s mother in the Smith & Vallee Gallery Patty Haller was invited to use the front studio space at the Seattle Artist League so she could prepare several large panels, including a 12′ painting for her January show “Growth Patterns” at the Smith & Vallee Gallery. Haller spent the fall and winter at the …
On a computer screen, the detailed cells of color in Chris Crites’ paintings look digital-perfect. In person, I’m compelled to creep closer, closer, until my breath fogs up the glass. It’s then that I can see the thousands of tiny brush strokes neatly aligned within each penciled form. He says it’s OCD. I say it’s skill and …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7537″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Look around you. If you were a travel agency, hoping to entice someone to this place, what would you put on the postcard? Draw, paint, or collage a postcard with this picture, saying “Wish You Were Here.” Sarcasm and irony are very welcome. Take a picture of your piece and …
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 …
SAL Challenge Favorites Week 1
Below are some interesting artworks for week one that I wanted to share. The words for week one were unidextral, puerile, unlovesome, unguiform, unciform, urceiform, ubiquit. If you see your project here, contact me for your $25 gift certificate asap! You can use your award on a class, give it to a friend, or donate it to someone who needs a little boost.
Hey – If you thought about joining in but you missed the beginning, or you started to make one or two and then you fell off so you feel you can’t start again (yes, I’m talking to you), think of today a fresh start. Every doodle helps. So join us. Start where you are, and make something. Not a perfect something, just a something. Something is infinitely more than nothing, and that’s a big win for us all.
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