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.
WELTER
n. a large number of items in no order; a confused mass
Synonyms: confusion, jumble, tangle
“At the same time they are subjected to a welter of conflicting pressures—acting as spin-doctors and bean-counters as well as dryer linters and pigs.”
#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)
If I wanted to paint solid, flat, even areas of color without visible brushstrokes I would: Start with a pre-gessoed smooth panel, or apply your own gesso and wet sand between coats. Use a soft brush, like a synthetic squirrel tail. (Hint: You’ll need to use thinner paint with a softer brush) Soft brush still …
Art 21 Magazine, by Brian Redondo | Mar 16, 2018 In a conversation with film director, Brian Redondo, artist Doreen Garner shares the motivation driving her sculptural practice: to educate viewers about suppressed racist histories embedded in the foundations of a nation built on slavery. Her recent project at Pioneer Works, White Man On a Pedestal, forced viewers …
Want to do something fun in January? Sign up now for our FREE 30 day creative challenge by subscribing to this blog. Subscribers will receive challenges in their inbox starting January 1. SAL 30 Day Creative Challenge Every January, the League sponsors a FREE 30 day creative challenge open to all artists everywhere, working in any media. This January we’ll post a daily …
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – Paul Klee “I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of …
SAL Challenge 19: WELTER
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.
n. a large number of items in no order; a confused mass
Synonyms: confusion, jumble, tangle
“At the same time they are subjected to a welter of conflicting pressures—acting as spin-doctors and bean-counters as well as dryer linters and pigs.”
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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