This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens.
UIVIGAR
Derived from an old Scandinavian word for a hedgehog, uivigar is a Scots English word for a sea-urchin—although it’s also used as a byword for anything particularly large and clumsy, or awkwardly shaped.
#salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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 tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
Blemmyes are mythical creatures without a head, with their facial features on their chest. Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders. Epiphagi, a variant name for the headless people of the Brisone, is sometimes used as a term referring strictly to the eyes-on-the-shoulders type. One of the creative …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7901″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I learned from the fabulous Suzanne Walker that this narrative painting “The Story of Joseph” by Biagio d’Antonio uses space as a representative for chronological time. The painting illustrates a story that follows a sequence clockwise around an ellipse, starting at the upper left. The scenes that happened farther back in …
In a recent V. Note I talked about how artists study works by other artists. Transcriptions are like artist’s notes, recording selected aspects and observations in an artwork. Sometimes they serve as a jumping off point for artwork in completely new direction. Transcriptions are not copies. For a commission, Frank Auerbach transcribed Titian’s ‘Tarquin and …
This is the first of four V. Notes highlighting black artists with professional careers in both painting and printmaking. Betty Blayton Taylor (July 10, 1937 – October 2, 2016) As an activist, Betty Blayton worked to advance the careers of black artists in Harlem. One of the many programs she built was the Children’s Art Carnival …
SAL Challenge 10: UIVIGAR
Exercise your creativity
This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens.
UIVIGAR
Derived from an old Scandinavian word for a hedgehog, uivigar is a Scots English word for a sea-urchin—although it’s also used as a byword for anything particularly large and clumsy, or awkwardly shaped.
#salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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 tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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