Search for #30sal on Instagram and along with our 775+ recent art posts, you’ll likely see this photo by pedramparsaaa posted in 2017, tagged #30sal. Yes, Pedram, we hijacked your hashtag.
Wednesday is the “See and Respond” day for challenges. Today, let’s give something back to Pedram. Use his pic above as inspiration for an artwork and post it #30sal.
Tricks for drawing from photographs:
Two common tricks for being able to see a photograph reference more accurately is to change the pic to black and white, and turn it upside down. Turning a color photograph into black and white helps you see values better, and if you wish, becomes an open invitation for you to make changes, inserting your own values and colors for a more personalized artwork. The second trick, the upside down trick, is a great one that was popularized by Betty Edwards in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It’s especially effective with portraits.
The teaching methods Dr. Edwards presents in her book are largely based on the Nobel Prize-winning work of Dr. Roger W. Sperry, (1913-1994), the eminent neuropsychologist and neurobiologist at CalTech. His work focused on the specialization of verbal, analytic, sequential functions in the left hemisphere; and the visual, spatial, perceptual functions in the right hemisphere. Turning a picture of a face upside down works because it bypasses the overly efficient (and rather bossy) labeling abilities of the left side of the brain, so the left takes a nap and lets the more perceptual spatial functions of the right brain take over. Thus, you perceive the shapes more accurately. Once the right side is engaged, she’ll put ether on the breathing tube for the left hemisphere, turn off all the clocks, and cover herself in glitter. You’ve been warned.
This image was made using the Notanizer app – a favorite tool of mine for drawing & painting
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The Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn created nearly one hundred self portraits during his 63 years of life. Roughly 40 of these self portraits were oil paintings. The rest were drawings and etchings. This was, and is, a fairly unusual number of self portraits for an artist without a smartphone. He might have made self portraits to practice rendering …
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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 …
30SAL Challenge: Hey boys, we have your hashtag
Search for #30sal on Instagram and along with our 775+ recent art posts, you’ll likely see this photo by pedramparsaaa posted in 2017, tagged #30sal. Yes, Pedram, we hijacked your hashtag.
Wednesday is the “See and Respond” day for challenges. Today, let’s give something back to Pedram. Use his pic above as inspiration for an artwork and post it #30sal.
Tricks for drawing from photographs:
Two common tricks for being able to see a photograph reference more accurately is to change the pic to black and white, and turn it upside down. Turning a color photograph into black and white helps you see values better, and if you wish, becomes an open invitation for you to make changes, inserting your own values and colors for a more personalized artwork. The second trick, the upside down trick, is a great one that was popularized by Betty Edwards in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It’s especially effective with portraits.
The teaching methods Dr. Edwards presents in her book are largely based on the Nobel Prize-winning work of Dr. Roger W. Sperry, (1913-1994), the eminent neuropsychologist and neurobiologist at CalTech. His work focused on the specialization of verbal, analytic, sequential functions in the left hemisphere; and the visual, spatial, perceptual functions in the right hemisphere. Turning a picture of a face upside down works because it bypasses the overly efficient (and rather bossy) labeling abilities of the left side of the brain, so the left takes a nap and lets the more perceptual spatial functions of the right brain take over. Thus, you perceive the shapes more accurately. Once the right side is engaged, she’ll put ether on the breathing tube for the left hemisphere, turn off all the clocks, and cover herself in glitter. You’ve been warned.
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