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
In addition to posting with the ultra-important #30sal, feel free to copy and paste these tags:
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
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The SAL Challenge for Tuesdays is to draw from observation. My suggestion for you today is to draw your bedding. Fall in love with the wrinkles, the rumples, the folds. Tease out the shadows. Go slow. Materials are artist’s choice. Set the timer for 20 minutes. When the timer chimes complete, feel free to continue …
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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.
In addition to posting with the ultra-important #30sal, feel free to copy and paste these tags:
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