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, my favorites for week two, and for week three. Below are my favorite discoveries for the last week, including one switch from Madelaine Mimi Torchia Boothby “mutatis mutandis” that turned into “mutande” which is Italian for underpants, and S Jordan Lee’s drawing that paired unexpectedly well with it: her drawing for “slimsy”.
Thank you to everyone who shared their work. 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.
From my previous post: Daily painters are artists who start and finish a painting every day-ish. Sometimes they slow down a bit, or take holidays and sabbaticals, but the basic idea is they do small quick studies frequently. (…) Daily practice makes you more decisive, and improves your artwork fast. Notable daily painters are Duane Keiser, Julian Merrow-Smith, and Carol …
Last Saturday was our Draw like Diebenkorn class. Since Diebenkorn himself was unable to join us (technical issues with zoom), I stepped in to facilitate with slide shows and observations about how Diebenkorn uses form and line to lead us around the composition. I set up still lives that were Diebenkorn inspired, and we had …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9888″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Wordsmith Studio Found poems are the literary equivalent of a collage, often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, books, online texts (v-notes?), or even other poems. For today’s challenge, take an existing text and refashion it, reorder it, to make a poem. Thank you for sharing your …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9734″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I was sitting here, as one does, thinking “you know, I don’t actually remember what my own fingerprints look like. They’re right here in front of me, every day, and I couldn’t identify my own darned fingertip in a line-up. Today, study and draw your fingerprint. To make your …
SAL Challenge Favorites: Week 4
Marcia Della Pace
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, my favorites for week two, and for week three. Below are my favorite discoveries for the last week, including one switch from Madelaine Mimi Torchia Boothby “mutatis mutandis” that turned into “mutande” which is Italian for underpants, and S Jordan Lee’s drawing that paired unexpectedly well with it: her drawing for “slimsy”.
Thank you to everyone who shared their work. 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.
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From my previous post: Daily painters are artists who start and finish a painting every day-ish. Sometimes they slow down a bit, or take holidays and sabbaticals, but the basic idea is they do small quick studies frequently. (…) Daily practice makes you more decisive, and improves your artwork fast. Notable daily painters are Duane Keiser, Julian Merrow-Smith, and Carol …
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Last Saturday was our Draw like Diebenkorn class. Since Diebenkorn himself was unable to join us (technical issues with zoom), I stepped in to facilitate with slide shows and observations about how Diebenkorn uses form and line to lead us around the composition. I set up still lives that were Diebenkorn inspired, and we had …
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