“Assortment of condiments to accompany lamb curry.” Photograph by John Dominis. 1964. From the Life Photo Archive
Before there were art supply stores, people made art. Before there were pencils, there were sharpened mineral rocks. Before there were brushes there were clumps of grass and twigs and fur. Today’s drawing is “No Art Store Tools.” You can use paper, but no pencils. Ink is fine, but no pens. So what now? Lots! Use your hands, use your feet. Take a deep breath and blow, grab a stick from the garden, pluck a feather, steal a toothbrush, make it work!
Thanks to my Figure Drawing class for telling me about this! Have you seen this yet? On October 5th, the British graffiti artist Banksy pranked the art world with an unprecedented performance of artwork self destruction. Seconds after the auction gavel hit the table – awarding a buyer his work Girl with Balloon for 1.4 million …
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, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. Make something today! UNGUIFORM The previous challenge words were urceiform and unciform. Today’s word is unguiform. Urceiform is vase-shaped. Unciform is hook shaped, and if it’s unguiform then …
I’m collecting images to share for week three of the SAL Challenge. I’ll post them tomorrow. One more day left in the 31 day creative challenge. Get your sketches up!
30SAL Challenge: Anti-Art Supplies
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