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 and #floccinaucinihilipilification, I thought you could use a break. Here’s an exceptionally short word, only 3 letters.
PYX
1 : a container for the reserved host especially : a small round metal receptacle used to carry the Eucharist to the sick.
2 : a box used in a mint for deposit of sample coins reserved for testing weight and fineness.
#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)
Let’s do something simple and specific today: Draw this photograph using continuous line. Continuous line is when you don’t pick up your drawing tool once you’ve started. You can speed up, slow down, or stop, but you don’t pick up your tool. You can have up to 3 continuous lines in one picture, if you …
I tell you Leaguers, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture, but someone’s gotta do it. [image_with_animation image_url=”6039″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Trouble reading the tiny text? Here’s the script: Calvin – “How unoriginal! How jejune! Stupid kid. If you don’t have anything to say, just keep quiet! Well, this is certainly shocking! Face …
Day 24 of our 30 Day January Challenge was Pathways to the Rectangle. Pathways are directional marks and shapes for our eyes to follow across a drawing or painting. They are a powerful compositional tool to keep the viewer’s eyes engaged and moving around a composition. Connecting these pathways to the edge of the rectangle …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7755″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Madelaine Mimi Torchia Boothby (League artist), 2017 What did you do yesterday? Draw, collage, paint, print…. make us a picture to tell us about your day. Share your sketches to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) We also had some great inkblots posted yesterday. While you’re there, check them out, and tell …
SAL Challenge 20: PYX
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.
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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