Here’s some snow for the Seattle Snowpocalypse survivors. This woodcut is made with black ink on long fiber board paper. Herschel Logan printed this in 1930. According to Logan, the image was taken from an early photograph.
You may have noticed, you astute reader you, that the composition is not quite divided in exactly half. It’s just slightly below half. I find some of my favorite compositions are just slightly not half, or if square, just slightly not square. Divine nearly perfect imperfection.
Have you made prints? We’d love for you to be part of our Printmaker’s show March 23/24. Stay tuned for details.
Make a print and show it! Our Beginning Printmaking 4 Week Shortie class starts next week. We’ve got an Intermediate Shortie too, with open studio time.
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
Welcome to the 30SAL Creative Challenge! Broaden your creative skills Every day this January we’ll post a creative challenge to our V. Notes blog. Subscribers will receive these posts in their inbox. Designed to foster a wide variety of creative skills, our challenges are not restricted to any style or genre, and medium is artist’s …
This is a man who became an artist because he missed a train. He was walking in a Manchester suburb, and as he took in the scene he was overcome by an urge to paint it. He then decided to become an artist. “I don’t know why I paint these scenes, I just paint them.” What …
Artists need to be able to give and receive feedback on their work, but “critique” is usually synonymous with criticism, and “I like it” doesn’t offer much help to a painter who wants to grow. So how do we see, think about, and evaluate works of art in a way that helps us see, grow, and support …
Composition Rule: Never divide the picture plane in half
…Unless it’s very pretty that way.
Here’s some snow for the Seattle Snowpocalypse survivors. This woodcut is made with black ink on long fiber board paper. Herschel Logan printed this in 1930. According to Logan, the image was taken from an early photograph.
You may have noticed, you astute reader you, that the composition is not quite divided in exactly half. It’s just slightly below half. I find some of my favorite compositions are just slightly not half, or if square, just slightly not square. Divine nearly perfect imperfection.
Have you made prints? We’d love for you to be part of our Printmaker’s show March 23/24. Stay tuned for details.
Make a print and show it! Our Beginning Printmaking 4 Week Shortie class starts next week. We’ve got an Intermediate Shortie too, with open studio time.
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