Drowning Girl Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997) 1963. Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 67 5/8 x 66 3/4″ (171.6 x 169.5 cm)
“Roy Lichtenstein grounded his inventive career in imitation, beginning by appropriating images from advertisements and comic books in the early 1960s. The source for his painting, Drowning Girl, is “Run for Love!,” the melodramatic lead story of Secret Love #83, a DC Comics comic book from 1962. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein dramatically cropped the image, removing the boat and the boyfriend so that the girl appears alone and centered, her head circled by a vortex of water. He also shortened the first line in the dialogue balloon, which originally read ‘I don’t care if I have a cramp!’, to the more ambiguous “I don’t care!” In the second line, he changed the boyfriend’s name from ‘Mal’ to ‘Brad.’ Explaining the appeal of comic books, Lichtenstein said, ‘I was very excited about, and interested in, the highly emotional content yet detached, impersonal handling of love, hate, war, etc. in these cartoon images.’” – Moma
Run for Love!, Secret Love #83, a DC Comics 1962
Riff off was originally a jazz term meaning “to borrow and elaborate on” as opposed to rip off which is to steal. To riff off someone’s artwork is to take someone’s idea and run with it.
For today’s creative challenge, riff off of someone’s project. Go through the Instagram #30sal posts and find someone else’s artwork that inspires you to make something new. Tag us with #30sal, and tag the artist you’re borrowing from by typing @username in the description.
As soon as I saw this post by Mimi Tochia Boothby, I wanted to see it without the top section. Here is my riff on Mimi’s monopod:
For those of you who would like to do this challenge but prefer not to use social media, you can do an image search for #30sal on Google. Not all 1,116 images come up, but some!
Never underestimate the beauty potential of a simple study on paper. These works are mostly vine charcoal on toned paper, some white charcoal (or white pastel), and pencil. The drawing above is watercolor. For most of these, regardless of color, the toned paper is standing in for medium value, so the artist only has to …
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. MUTATUS MUTANDIS 1 : with the necessary changes …
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. UNDER-PINNERS Victorian slang for your legs. #salchallenge …
Welcome to the SAL Challenge Every day for the month of January, I’ll send out a creative challenge prompt. This series of challenges will be based on unusual vocabulary words. I’ll send out a word for the day, and you respond. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, sculpt your food, anything you …
30SAL Challenge: Riff Off
Roy Lichtenstein
(American, 1923–1997)
1963. Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 67 5/8 x 66 3/4″ (171.6 x 169.5 cm)
“Roy Lichtenstein grounded his inventive career in imitation, beginning by appropriating images from advertisements and comic books in the early 1960s. The source for his painting, Drowning Girl, is “Run for Love!,” the melodramatic lead story of Secret Love #83, a DC Comics comic book from 1962. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein dramatically cropped the image, removing the boat and the boyfriend so that the girl appears alone and centered, her head circled by a vortex of water. He also shortened the first line in the dialogue balloon, which originally read ‘I don’t care if I have a cramp!’, to the more ambiguous “I don’t care!” In the second line, he changed the boyfriend’s name from ‘Mal’ to ‘Brad.’ Explaining the appeal of comic books, Lichtenstein said, ‘I was very excited about, and interested in, the highly emotional content yet detached, impersonal handling of love, hate, war, etc. in these cartoon images.’” – Moma
Riff off was originally a jazz term meaning “to borrow and elaborate on” as opposed to rip off which is to steal. To riff off someone’s artwork is to take someone’s idea and run with it.
For today’s creative challenge, riff off of someone’s project. Go through the Instagram #30sal posts and find someone else’s artwork that inspires you to make something new. Tag us with #30sal, and tag the artist you’re borrowing from by typing @username in the description.
As soon as I saw this post by Mimi Tochia Boothby, I wanted to see it without the top section. Here is my riff on Mimi’s monopod:
For those of you who would like to do this challenge but prefer not to use social media, you can do an image search for #30sal on Google. Not all 1,116 images come up, but some!
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