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.
TONDO
At my recent artist’s talk, Suzanne Walker, our sparkling WTF Art Historian, BA, PhD, BFD, asked about my tondo paintings. Tondo? I had no idea what she was talking about. Yes, I had made them, but I had totally forgotten the word. I’m sending this out so you can learn it, and remind me next time.
As I worked with rectangle, square, and circular panels, I found some images worked with one shape but not as well with the other. What type of composition works best in a circle? Give it a try.
Tip: Making a study of tondo made by another artist isn’t cheating, it’s a respected tradition!
Tondo: Circular paintings and relief sculptures. Most recently popularized by Damien Hirst, the tondo was used as early as Greek antiquity to depict mythological scenes on pottery. The form became prevalent in Renaissance Italy through works by artists like Raphael and Michelangelo. Inspired by the painted trays traditionally presented to pregnant women, these tondi often depicted Bible stories and images of the Madonna and Child. The round panel or canvas put forth an alternate set of compositional concerns from those established by Leon Battista Alberti, who wrote that rectangular painting is essential for pictorial perspective. Abstract and figurative painters in various movements since have used the tondo to complement their work on rectangular canvases, from Caravaggio to Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Sol LeWitt.
#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)
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. After the very long vocabulary words #incomprehensibilities …
Previously I posted a request for artworks related to the 6′ of space social distancing rule. This call for art has expanded to include anything and everything related to your experience in this quarantine. Open to any media (photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, writing, etc). Must be a League member to submit. IMPORTANT: Use the subject line 6′ …
Welcome to day 25! Only five more days to go in our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Tuesdays are “See and Respond” days. Today I have the head and feet of a figure drawing by Paul Cezanne. Your job is to fill in the middle. You can use the original drawing below and make a transcription …
Join us in celebrating the remarkable solo show of paintings by League artist Sharon Wherland, on display through June at the Seattle Artist League Gallery (SALGAL). Closing reception June 15th as part of the Georgetown Art Walk. Spend a few minutes looking at these paintings, and you’ll begin to hear music. Sharon Wherland’s show, “Movement …
SAL Challenge 13: TONDO
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.
At my recent artist’s talk, Suzanne Walker, our sparkling WTF Art Historian, BA, PhD, BFD, asked about my tondo paintings. Tondo? I had no idea what she was talking about. Yes, I had made them, but I had totally forgotten the word. I’m sending this out so you can learn it, and remind me next time.
As I worked with rectangle, square, and circular panels, I found some images worked with one shape but not as well with the other. What type of composition works best in a circle? Give it a try.
Tip: Making a study of tondo made by another artist isn’t cheating, it’s a respected tradition!
From Artsy:
Tondo: Circular paintings and relief sculptures. Most recently popularized by Damien Hirst, the tondo was used as early as Greek antiquity to depict mythological scenes on pottery. The form became prevalent in Renaissance Italy through works by artists like Raphael and Michelangelo. Inspired by the painted trays traditionally presented to pregnant women, these tondi often depicted Bible stories and images of the Madonna and Child. The round panel or canvas put forth an alternate set of compositional concerns from those established by Leon Battista Alberti, who wrote that rectangular painting is essential for pictorial perspective. Abstract and figurative painters in various movements since have used the tondo to complement their work on rectangular canvases, from Caravaggio to Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Sol LeWitt.
#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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