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.
Children with jack-o-lanterns, a sketch by Katie Jo Keppinger, in Thursday’s class for drawing and painting. I love Keppinger’s marks, bold and sensitive like Kathe Kollwitz, moody as Edvard Monk. This drawing uses a variety of edges and plenty of dark values and contrast to produce the sensation of glow. Organic circles, strong angles, and …
The Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn created nearly one hundred self portraits during his 63 years of life. Roughly 40 of these self portraits were oil paintings. The rest were drawings and etchings. This was, and is, a fairly unusual number of self portraits for an artist without a smartphone. He might have made self portraits to practice rendering …
I got this idea from Makena Gadient at the recent CoCA 24 hour Art Marathon. This is an excellent design study. Take a stack of cards. Using a big sewing needle, poke random holes into the stack of cards so they all have the same pattern of holes. Then, using the same holes, create a …
We started the challenge with a self portrait, and we ended by drawing the place where you make art. I enjoyed getting to glimpse into everyone’s spaces, especially after getting to know you a little in your posts. Seeing your spaces, I felt that we were all a bit closer, even though we may not …
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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