More and more and more creative challenges are getting posted online! You can find them by using the hashtags #salchallenge @seattleartistleague.
I posted some of my SAL Challenge favorites for week one, and my favorites for week two. Below are my favorite discoveries for week three. The word prompts are erinaceous, agastopia, floccinaucinihilipilification, incomprehensibilities, welter, pxy, anthropomorphic, and coiffure. A couple drawings that I missed from week one snuck in. If you see your project here, contact me for your $25 gift certificate asap! You can use your award on a class, give it to a friend, or donate it to someone who needs a little boost.
You’ve got a few more days to post your pictures for the last week. Every doodle counts! Start where you are, and make something. Not a perfect something, just a something. Something is infinitely more than nothing, and that’s a big win for us all.
Hatching (making parallel marks) and crosshatching (making parallel marks overlapped with parallel marks) are some of the most valuable tools for adding value, contour, movement, energy, and texture to a drawing. For materials, a sharp pencil or pen on smooth paper works great. Old fashioned pen and ink is made for this. If you’re new …
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 …
Notations A multi-media art show about migration, music, health, and family. Lucy Garnett seeks to understand the themes of migration, music, health, and family by breaking them down and rebuilding them into sculpture, print, painting, and installation. Reception: Saturday Dec 14, 5-8pmOn display: December 14, 2019 – end of March 2020Open: Monday through Friday, 8-5pmShow …
Day 12: George Washington The instructions were to finish an unfinished portrait of George Washington. If you’ve gone into instagram or padlet and searched for #30SAL, you have probably seen some of the fabulous contributions from artists like you. From out of the dozens of interesting artworks responding to this challenge, here are a few. …
SAL Challenge Favorites, Week 3
SAL Challenge Pics
More and more and more creative challenges are getting posted online! You can find them by using the hashtags #salchallenge @seattleartistleague.
I posted some of my SAL Challenge favorites for week one, and my favorites for week two. Below are my favorite discoveries for week three. The word prompts are erinaceous, agastopia, floccinaucinihilipilification, incomprehensibilities, welter, pxy, anthropomorphic, and coiffure. A couple drawings that I missed from week one snuck in. If you see your project here, contact me for your $25 gift certificate asap! You can use your award on a class, give it to a friend, or donate it to someone who needs a little boost.
You’ve got a few more days to post your pictures for the last week. Every doodle counts! Start where you are, and make something. Not a perfect something, just a something. Something is infinitely more than nothing, and that’s a big win for us all.
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Hatching (making parallel marks) and crosshatching (making parallel marks overlapped with parallel marks) are some of the most valuable tools for adding value, contour, movement, energy, and texture to a drawing. For materials, a sharp pencil or pen on smooth paper works great. Old fashioned pen and ink is made for this. If you’re new …
Auerbach’s Transcriptions after Titian
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 …
Lucy Garnett’s “Notations”
Notations A multi-media art show about migration, music, health, and family. Lucy Garnett seeks to understand the themes of migration, music, health, and family by breaking them down and rebuilding them into sculpture, print, painting, and installation. Reception: Saturday Dec 14, 5-8pmOn display: December 14, 2019 – end of March 2020Open: Monday through Friday, 8-5pmShow …
#30SAL Faves: George Washington
Day 12: George Washington The instructions were to finish an unfinished portrait of George Washington. If you’ve gone into instagram or padlet and searched for #30SAL, you have probably seen some of the fabulous contributions from artists like you. From out of the dozens of interesting artworks responding to this challenge, here are a few. …