I got this idea from Makena Gadient at the recent CoCA 24 hour Art Marathon. This is an excellent design study.
Take a stack of cards. Using a big sewing needle, poke random holes into the stack of cards so they all have the same pattern of holes. Then, using the same holes, create a different design for each by sewing yarn from hole to hole. This can also be done with pens instead of yarn, but keep your lines straight, and avoid the desire to make an identifiable “thing.” No portraits, no pictures. These are just lines. Abstract designs only.
Design question: Which compositions are your favorite? Why?
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! See those little horns at the top of Moses’ head? It’s a bit of a misunderstanding. In the old Latin Vulgate Bible, they used the term “cornuta facies” which can be translated either as “horned face” or “radiant face” to describe how Moses’ looked after he chatted with …
A Very Good Idea What if you had a Very Good Idea for a painting that you just couldn’t quite get enough of? What if, miracle of miracles, you had a Very Good Idea and you actually painted it. And what if you didn’t quite get what you were hoping from this attempt. Would you …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8323″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Photo from apartycrasher.biz/pages/baglady.html Every day I watch students waddle in, and waddle out of class, overloaded with heavy bags full of painting supplies. Brushes, paint tubes, mediums, containers, paper towels, canvases…. It’s a lot to carry! And how many times have you gotten all the way to the studio …
Here’s an idea for something to draw: throw your jacket on a chair. Now you have a still life, a portrait, and a landscape. *Quoted from Charity Baker’s “Museum Crawl” class featuring Cezanne’s show of drawings in NY
30SAL Challenge: Connect the Dots
I got this idea from Makena Gadient at the recent CoCA 24 hour Art Marathon. This is an excellent design study.
Take a stack of cards. Using a big sewing needle, poke random holes into the stack of cards so they all have the same pattern of holes. Then, using the same holes, create a different design for each by sewing yarn from hole to hole. This can also be done with pens instead of yarn, but keep your lines straight, and avoid the desire to make an identifiable “thing.” No portraits, no pictures. These are just lines. Abstract designs only.
Design question: Which compositions are your favorite? Why?
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