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.
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
This word has 29 letters, and it means the estimation of something as without value. Ironically, floccinaucinihilipilification is a word without much value itself; it’s almost never used except as an example of a long word. Indeed, floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word in the english language. Have fun with that hashtag!
#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. You can also email it to me directly, and use the tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
In 1905, Henri Matisse and his friend Andre Derain both painted Matisse’s wife Amélie in her Japanese kimono. The two artist’s works are similar, yet with some interesting differences. While Derain divided the canvas into swatches of color, he described the face in a more formal manner. In the other painting, Matisse has divided the …
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I have a guest V. Note today from our printmaking instructor Nikki Barber. Back in April 2020, Nikki interviewed Sam Davidson, of Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Nikki asked Sam about his favorite works in the Davidson collection. This is a delightful interview about a variety of printmaking artists around the globe, with interesting work I …
SAL Challenge 17: FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
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.
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
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. You can also email it to me directly, and use the tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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