This unique and intricate threaded mosaic by Seattle artist Nicholas Horcher @nphdraws was a bold viewer’s favorite. When asked how he learned to do this, he said he just figured it out.
Collaged imagery in an Instagram aesthetic beautifully illustrates the artist’s friends who attended a small Catholic Mexican school, 2672 miles from Seattle. Colored pencil on toned paper by Camila Vallejo @buildgrist
The pose of this unusual diptych is referenced in the graphite writing: “I had to do it to em.” To help me get the joke, I received a lesson on the meme it references.
This sensitive piece by Alexia Giselle Gonzalez references mental illness, and a moment of self compassion.
I didn’t get this series of watercolor portraits at first glance. Then I noticed the fish, and that caused me to question what the heck was going on. After that the finger flying off the hand, the eyeball, and…. finally I saw the spider on her head. Portraits of fears by Elise L Hebert @seascribbling
The beautiful skill clearly applied to this illustration had me curious about the meaning. Jenny Peng’s artist statement illuminates it is about “the idea of waking up to the real world, and shedding childish dreams that are unattainable.”
The Slaughter of the Songbirds put voice to a horrifyingly common experience of Generation Z.
School shootings also stopped an artist from attending the reception. It saddened us all to hear that Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia was unable to attend the opening due to a school shooting in her area. The artist was not injured, but the shooting impacted members of her family and friends. Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia, we love your artwork, and we admire your strength.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman I wrote a V-Note September 19, 2016 about simplification and massing. You can read it here. Today’s V-Note: Marc Bohne One of the (many) reasons I struggle to paint outside is that I get so danged overwhelmed by everything. There’s …
These are some paintings in which my favorite part is the wall. Enjoy. Do not paint a white thing white. A white thing is everything other than white. The video below illuminates some of the colors actually present in an image of a white horse, and a white flower. Because colors change according to what they’re next to, they still …
The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972. (Wikipedia) At their worst, the Situationists could be said to have removed the requirement of specific skill and techniques from art, resulting …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! We are more than two thirds through February and I’ve been so busy posting pictures of your vegetable drawers that I haven’t posted for Black art history month. Terrible! To be honest, it has been a tough year and the last thing I want to do is send …
Pics from the Show: The Modern Youth Identity
This unique and intricate threaded mosaic by Seattle artist Nicholas Horcher @nphdraws was a bold viewer’s favorite. When asked how he learned to do this, he said he just figured it out.
Collaged imagery in an Instagram aesthetic beautifully illustrates the artist’s friends who attended a small Catholic Mexican school, 2672 miles from Seattle. Colored pencil on toned paper by Camila Vallejo @buildgrist
The pose of this unusual diptych is referenced in the graphite writing: “I had to do it to em.” To help me get the joke, I received a lesson on the meme it references.
This sensitive piece by Alexia Giselle Gonzalez references mental illness, and a moment of self compassion.
I didn’t get this series of watercolor portraits at first glance. Then I noticed the fish, and that caused me to question what the heck was going on. After that the finger flying off the hand, the eyeball, and…. finally I saw the spider on her head. Portraits of fears by Elise L Hebert @seascribbling
The beautiful skill clearly applied to this illustration had me curious about the meaning. Jenny Peng’s artist statement illuminates it is about “the idea of waking up to the real world, and shedding childish dreams that are unattainable.”
The Slaughter of the Songbirds put voice to a horrifyingly common experience of Generation Z.
School shootings also stopped an artist from attending the reception. It saddened us all to hear that Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia was unable to attend the opening due to a school shooting in her area. The artist was not injured, but the shooting impacted members of her family and friends. Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia, we love your artwork, and we admire your strength.
Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia
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