Today is the first part of a two part drawing. You can catch up tomorrow if you miss today, but don’t throw out your drawing for today!
Thursday is Vocabulary day, and the word is sesquipedalian. The rare time this unusual word is introduced into conversation, it is to describe someone or something that overuses big words. Literally, sesquipedalian means “a foot and a half long.” So we are going to leverage this word for two inspirations:
1. a foot and a half long word to describe words that are a foot and a half long 2. a foot
This exciting moment is where you come in. Today, you will draw a foot. Not two, just one. (Count yourself lucky. Symmetry is a bitch.) You have options for how you make your foot:
For those of you who are more snobbish in your beret and academically inclined, you might choose to draw a study of one of these Bargue feet. Bargue plates are excellent exercises, copied line for line by academic art snobs since 1868.
If the Bargue foots do nothing for your free loving style, then follow your way to draw, paint, sketch, sculpt, or photo collage anything else your butterfly mind so chooses, in any way you wish… as long as it’s a foot.
Few things are as evocative, intimate, and private as moments spent bathing. The bathtub offers an emotional framework. Door locked, body submerged, the bathtub is an internal world. The figure can literally be soaked in it. Most painted bathers are young attractive women, of course, so the gender, race, and body issues are very present. I’d …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. WELTER n. a large number of items …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
I’ll be sharing my drawings on Facebook. I’d love to see yours too. Maybe your posts will inspire more people to join the challenge. Post your pics to Facebook: SeattleArtLeague, or Instagram: SeattleArtLeague. #drawingaday #seattleartleague – or email them to me. I’d love to see what you create!
30SAL Challenge: Sesquipedalian (Part 1 of 2)
Today is the first part of a two part drawing. You can catch up tomorrow if you miss today, but don’t throw out your drawing for today!
Thursday is Vocabulary day, and the word is sesquipedalian. The rare time this unusual word is introduced into conversation, it is to describe someone or something that overuses big words. Literally, sesquipedalian means “a foot and a half long.” So we are going to leverage this word for two inspirations:
1. a foot and a half long word to describe words that are a foot and a half long
2. a foot
This exciting moment is where you come in. Today, you will draw a foot. Not two, just one. (Count yourself lucky. Symmetry is a bitch.) You have options for how you make your foot:
For those of you who are more snobbish in your beret and academically inclined, you might choose to draw a study of one of these Bargue feet. Bargue plates are excellent exercises, copied line for line by academic art snobs since 1868.
If the Bargue foots do nothing for your free loving style, then follow your way to draw, paint, sketch, sculpt, or photo collage anything else your butterfly mind so chooses, in any way you wish… as long as it’s a foot.
This ends part one of this two part exercise.
Part 2 of 2 (tomorrow)
Now, for those of you who like to have all the information so that you can plan ahead, I’ll give you a hint: monopod.
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