Today’s memory challenge is to study an artwork done by a skilled artist. It can be a sculpture, rough sketch, finished drawing, painting, or print. For simplicity in this post, I’ll be using the word “draw,” but you are not restricted to drawings. Feel free to use any media, including sculpture. For simplicity in your …
Though it doesn’t look revolutionary to a modern reader, this page from “Impact No. 1” (1955) may be the most analyzed page in comics history, says Vulture. Bernard Krigstein, a name known only by hard core comics fans, transported 1950’s comics into a new level of art, now so familiar its impact is underappreciated today. …
This was the final challenge – the 30th Challenge for 30 Challenges in January! The final prompt was to create an asymmetrical portrait. This suggestion was designed to push a portrait drawing – something that can frequently cause us to tense up trying to get things perfect – into something more bold, individual, compositionally dynamic, …
My apologies for the silence this last week. We’ve been putting our new Spring schedule online, and finalizing the summer teen camp schedule. Spring classes and workshops for adults and teens are now open for registration. Summer Teen Camps will be posted February 15th. Whew! #? Throughout the month of January, artists posted over 1,270 …
The Ugliest Matisse?
Henri Matisse, Le Grand bois (The Large Woodcut) 1906, 18×15″
The print is ugly but the plate is pretty. No?
Matisse, The Large Woodcut, print and plate
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