In recent V. Notes I talked about how artists learn and get inspired by studying works by other artists. I posted transcriptions by Jonathan Harkham, and I posted Frank Auerbach’s Transcriptions after Titian. In art, to transcribe is to copy or record information in a different form than the original. To transcribe a painting or …
The League has a new mural, designed and painted by Nikki Barber. The mural honors Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old Black, pregnant woman who was fatally shot in North Seattle by two white Seattle police officers on June 18, 2017. This post was written by Nikki Barber. Painting the mural, there were occasional, unpleasant jeers, and …
Every quarter I teach figure drawing on Sundays. No class is ever the same, which means that every artist gets to experience different ways to approach the figure. Each comes with a specific challenge that teaches a skill, and I hold the artists to that challenge, but individual styles are celebrated, as you’ll see in …
Thursdays are vocabulary days for our 30 Day Creative Challenge, and our inspiration for today comes from Greek Mythology. Argus-eyed Vigilant. ‘The young salmon in the Orkla and Sokna rivers are monitored with Argus-eyed vigilance.’ (Source: Lexico) Origin Early 17th century in Greek mythology Argos was the name of a watchman with a hundred eyes. …
Vitreograph by David Dodge Lewis
Bee-Pin by David Dodge Lewis (1997). Vitreograph on paper, edition of 30. Photo courtesy of the Littleton Collection.
Vitreography is a printmaking technique that uses a thick glass matrix instead of the traditional matrices of metal, wood or stone.
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